cognitive science

The Biggest School Bully

Submitted by papertalker on Apr 14, 2009, 05:04 PM
I am posting this essay because, written a year or so after Columbine, it rings true now more than ever.

As violence erupts, kids are left to their own devices-- the ones with the guns and the pent-up anger lash out for ?attention? and ?take control? because they?ve been helpless victims of bullying or familial abuse. The other kids stand by like proverbial deer frozen in the headlights. Neither their peers nor adults at school can be trusted. The code of silence is not just for kids. It's school culture?s state of the art. Administrations come down hard with the lid when violence erupts, but there is no desire to dig for the root causes. Why? Because down deep they know that life at their school is a big part of the problem.

 

Thoughts about technology, "everyware healthcare" & my dad. (Stories from the ICU, Songs from the LTACH)

Submitted by Lynn Marentette on Apr 06, 2009, 12:16 AM

My father had surgery over a month ago, spent about 3 weeks in the ICU, and now is living the life of luxury in a LTACH, stranded in a city where he does not live, hundreds of miles away from family and friends.   I've written a few blog posts related to health care, emergency health records,

World 3

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 06, 2009, 08:36 AM

There are definition problems when talking about the entities of ?Information Technology?: what should we call the main ingredients? Intuitively it would seem that there is a technological domain, consisting of machines and programs that work with something called inf

Your Own Personal Supercomputer

Submitted by michael_ansel on Feb 03, 2009, 02:21 PM
As part of Cathy Davidson's class, "This Is Your Brain on the Internet", at Duke University, we have been discussing the brain, its functionality, and its ability to adapt to changing circumstances and even traumatic situations. It is interesting to note that, despite our tendency to think linearly, our brain is actually processing everything in a massively parallel system. Here is a quick comparison between standard computer processors (non-parallel), graphics processors (parallel), and the brain (massively parallel).