Author: Daniel

In the first year of life, baby’s are able to identify all sounds in all languages. This ability seems to go away very quickly around the first year. Kuhl’s research that the optimal time to learn language sounds is before the first year.

Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

“Never bet against babies…” in one of Schulz’s concluding remarks but in her presentation she shows her research evidence that demonstrates the incredible computing power of a baby’s mind.

Laura Schulz: The surprisingly logical minds of babies

Medici’s sobering question: “…am I studying tapirs and contributing to their conservation, or am I just documenting their extinction?” She then proceeds to share her learning but her ever elusive research topics.

In his very short presentation, Cardini encourages us to try focusing on a single task and enjoy the experience in its richness.

Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking

It is fascinating how we are in such a craze to use renewable energies, but we refuse to we nuclear. Shellenberger shows that we are actually losing renewable energies faster than we are putting it in place. He continues to address the nuclear fears and points out that nuclear power is already, be far, the safest, stable mass energy production method we have.

Michael Shellenberger: How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment