Cools Links to Check Out (09/28/2008 edition)
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out as a conference bringing people from different fields together. On their website there are many video recordings of talks and presentations given by innovators in many areas. I find some of these talks and ideas to be very interesting, for example, Sugata Mitra talks about his experiment of bringing computers into parts of India to see if kids can learn English and computers by teaching themselves and how that tells us about how we should spend our education budget, and this talk by Paul Rothemund about DNA.
Scientist Says Horizontal Stripes Don’t Make You Look Fat
There was a research doing about whether horizontal stripes make someone look fat. Yep, there’s a research about anything. Their conclusion was that, contrary to popular belief/myth, horizontal stripes don’t make you look fat. On the other hand, verticle stripes do. When I looked at the picture in that article, I say, yes, I agree with their conclusion.
Children Don’t Learn Well From Mistakes Until Twelve
Study shows that children before twelve doesn’t have that good of cognitive abilities to learn from mistakes. Therefore, eight-year-olds would learn better from positive reinforcements than negative ones.
