Posted in Language & Cognition on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
www.badhemingway.com
It was a website. It was a good website. It was the kind of website you would surf past on a cold, rainy night sitting in your hotel room in Bogota.
Posted in Mind & Consciousness, Strategy & Tactics on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Time Isn’t Money: Study Finds That We Spend The Resources Differently
I never bought into that whole “time is money” thing anyway. Time is nothing like money. Money comes in at a rate that you can manipulate, it goes out at a rate that you can manipulate and you can store it. Time always comes in [...]
Posted in Language & Cognition on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Bringing Second Life To Life: Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities Of A Child
Okay, now this is cool. Not much more I can say.
Posted in Language & Cognition, Society & Politics on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Plain Language: Improving Communications from the Federal Government to the Public
Okay. So now all we need is a means of communication from the public to the federal government. But maybe that’s not as important.
Posted in Language & Cognition, Ontology & Science, Society & Politics on March 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Ontology and Formal Semantics - Integration Overdue
Overdue indeed. I became a semantician because I found the content representations being used in cognitive science were vacuous. Then I became an ontologist because I found the content representations being used in semantics were vacuous.
Only with plausible, common-sense ontology can we ever do plausible, common-sesne semantics. Only with [...]
Posted in Intelligence on March 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Visible Thinking
So all you have to do now is move your kids to a country with an educational system designed to turn out creatively intelligent citizens instead of ignorant serfs, and you’re all set.
Posted in Education on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Education Reform: The Tough Standards Movement
I’m not sure I want to go to the mall and be surrounded by people who can think.
Well, okay, maybe I do.
Posted in Consciousness on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Free will is not an illusion
Who thought it was an illusion?
Oh, never mind.
Posted in Biology & Medicine, Mind & Consciousness on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Teenage anger linked to brains: study
Teenage anger linked to immaturity. News at 11.
Posted in Education on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I bet those kids can send text messages faster than I can, though.
