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Journal: Learning Styles Concepts and Evidence

Learning Styles:Concepts and Evidence Psychological Science in the Public Interest Harold Pashler Mark McDaniel Doug Rohrer Robert Bjork Abstract The term “learning styles” refers to the concept that individuals differ in regard to what mode of instruction or study is most effective for them. Proponents of learning-style assessment contend that optimal instruction requires diagnosing individuals’ …

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Sick Systems on a Micro to Macro Level; Not All Vampires Suck Blood; Psychopaths Among Us

The following pieces are from June 2010 and 2001. They were found separately within the same day and provide inter-connected insights. Link to the full version..below is an extremely shortened version: PSYCHOPATHS AMONG US Dr. Robert Hare claims there are 300,000 psychopaths in Canada, but that only a tiny fraction are violent offenders like Paul …

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Open Source Mobile Tech (SMS) Platforms for Credit, Education, Legal, and Medical

FrontlineSMS is an open-source software that enables two-way text messaging between cheap mobile phones and laptops over cellular (GSM) networks. FrontlineSMS: Credit FrontlineSMS:Credit aims to make every formal financial service available to the entrepreneurial poor in 160 characters or less. By meshing the functionality of FrontlineSMS with local mobile payment systems, implementing institutions will be …

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Review: Hack the Planet–Science’s Best Hope–or Worst Nightmare–For Averting Climate Catastrophe

Tour of the Horizon, the Smartest of Skeptics July 25, 2010 Eli Kintisch I bristled when I saw the title, but bought the book in association with my own talk to Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) on “Hacking Humanity.” I’ve put the book down glad I did not give up in the early pages, and …

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Journal: MILNET Selected Headlines–Epoch A Ending

Phi Beta Iota: What all of these headlines have in common is the failure of Epoch A “leadership” or what Peggy Noonan has called the failure of institutions and Robert Steele called the paradigms of failure. Top-down command & control is incapable of meshing with bottom-up complexity that demands clarity, diversity, integrity, and legitimacy in …

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