Items to Share: 27 January

Education Focus

• Separated and Connected | Clyde Street the nature of "group-ness" online

• Education, privilege, gratitude, responsibility Quite.  

• Why Don't They Apply What They've Learned, Part I (Chronicle of Higher Education) the problem of transfer of learning.

• The Methods Chapter as a party  Pat Thomson's guidance on getting your dissertation right. 

• Reading Plato on Death Row - New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science the difference the setting makes. 

Other Business

• The King's Apostrophe - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan both for content and method. 

• Join Cartoonist Lynda Barry for a University-Level Course on Doodling and Neuroscience | Open Culture

• Think you can multitask? Congratulations, you're probably living a lie.

• Social evolution: The ritual animal : Nature

• Wittgenstein’s master Frank Ramsey--supervised Wittgenstein's doctorate (sort of), but died at 26 (Brother became Archbishop of Canterbury.) 

• Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard Medical School studies placebos they do work, but how? 

• Why You Never Truly Leave High School -- New York Magazine Developmentally, the neglected years 

• Tell me now how do I feel – Bad Science The myth of "Blue Monday" and where it came from. 

• Short Sharp Science: Eskimo argument is a snowstorm in a teacup words for snow. Again. But... 

• Why Living Cells Are The Future Of Data Processing | Popular Science DNA-based digital memory is the future?