DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis once pointed to the human brain as a paramount inspiration for building AI with human-like intelligence. He’s not the only one. The meteoric success of deep learning showcases how insights from neuroscience—memory, learning, decision-making, vision—can be distilled into algorithms … Continue reading Three Invaluable Ways AI and Neuroscience Are Driving Each Other Forward
Look up into the sky and it’s hard to imagine where the Earth’s atmosphere ends and outer space begins. By Rozina Sini | BBC News Commonly referred to as the Karman line, that imaginary border is 62 miles (100km) away … Continue reading Students attempt to launch self-built rocket
The Contradiction at the Heart of Public Education by Andy SmarickAuthor of Closing America’s High-Achievement Gap | The Atlantic Over the summer, an education panel convened by Bill de Blasio put New York City’s mayor in a bind: It recommended dismantling much of … Continue reading Gifted education puts in tension two equally treasured American ideals: egalitarianism and individualism
A leading expert in the psychology of savantism for over 40 years and the scientific advisor for the film Rain Man, Darold Treffert is a wellspring of knowledge on this fascinating yet often misunderstood condition. In this episode we cover the … Continue reading “Spectacular Ability in a Sea of Disability”: The Psychology of Savantism with Darold Treffert, M.D.
A fractal is any geometric pattern that occurs again and again, at different sizes and scales, within the same object. This “self-similarity” can be seen throughout nature, for example in a snowflake’s edge, a river network, the splitting veins in … Continue reading Fractal patterns in a quantum material
It’ll be difficult, but it’s possible by Jacqueline Detwiler | Forge So earlier this year I was riding a janky bike alone through Burning Man’s makeshift city grid. Identical military-style tents extended into the darkness on both sides of the … Continue reading How to Think Without Googling
Strategies to promote autonomy and other levers for motivation in an inclusive classroom setting BY: Emily Boudreau | Harvard Graduate School of Education Why is it that students are eager to start some tasks but not others? Why do some students … Continue reading Power of Intrinsic Motivation
What if energy could be the square root of a negative number? By Scott Hershberger | The Source In a certain sense, physics is the study of the universe’s symmetries. Physicists strive to understand how systems and symmetries change under various transformations. … Continue reading Quantum symmetries, complex energies.
About 70 percent of our planet’s surface is covered with water, and it plays an important role in our daily lives. But how did water get on Earth in the first place? By Everyday Einstein Sabrina Stierwalt | Scientific American About 70% … Continue reading How Did Water Get on Earth?
Educators are interested in student achievement. Managers are interested in maximum productivity. Parents are interested in raising kids that are successful, have opportunities and that might be happy as well. These are just a few examples of our collective interest … Continue reading Permission to Feel: The Link Between Emotional Intelligence and Academic Success
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