Tweet If you’re not already aware of the excellent TED conferences and talks, I would strongly recommend going to their site and having a poke around. There are some fascinating people and ideas featured but be prepared to spend a bit of time: most of the content consists of 18 minute video talks. One of [...]
Archive for the ‘Cognitive science’ Category
Being a genius or having a genius?
By james in Cognitive science, Time management, WritingDrafting hacks: In long docs view only a section at a time
By jose in Cognitive science, Collaboration, WritingTweet I’m sure everyone here is familiar with drafting. It’s a very demanding activity, and my feeling is that there are no proper tools out there. Word is clearly not a good drafting tool, and raw latex is not much better. I particularly use onenote, but it’s not without its problems (I work under linux [...]
Attention economy: ROI for your attention
By jose in Cognitive science, Funding, Resources, Time managementTweet In the last month or so (sorry, we haven’t posted in a month!) I’ve been reading on and thinking about attention economy. I think it is the right paradigm to connect the different bits and pieces of productivity knowledge (we could call them hacks) floating around on the ‘net. I could write a long [...]
How do you submit seven papers in a month? interview with Dan Navarro
By jose in Cognitive science, Interviews, Resources, Teaching, WritingTweet Dan posted in his blog that he had managed to get seven papers out in the open literature in January. I had to interview him. AP.com: How do you manage your daily workload? Dan Navarro: A lot more pragmatically than I used to. I put an hour or so aside each morning to cover the [...]
Learning Technologies and Cognition
By dario in CFP, Cognitive scienceTweet I receive from Itiel Dror (Southampton) the announcement of a relevant call for paper for a special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition, focusing on learning technologies: Learning technologies have been taking an increasing role in almost all learning environments. They are used in a variety of informal and formal educational environments, from early years [...]