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Monthly Archives: March 2017
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You’d like to understand probability and statistics more richly? Perhaps you’d like to visualize some…
Practice Makes Myelin
Here’s a helpful TedEd video on the neuroscience of physical practice. I quibble with some of…
E-Readers and Reading Comprehension
The invaluable Daniel Willingham briefly reviews the literature, and concludes that — for the time being…
“Nevertheless, She Persisted”
If you watched the Oscars this past weekend, or simply had lucky t.v. timing over…