Kumar demonstrates some really cook autonomous robots.
Category: Notes
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Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better
Treasure suggests that we need to improve our practice of listening by:- Experiencing 3 minutes a day of silence
- In a noisy environment, count the number of different channels of sound you are hearing
- Savor a single, simple, mundane sound
- Practice changing your “listening position” (switch from passive to active, critical to empathic)
- Remember, R.A.S.A. (Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask)
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Dambisa Moyo: How the West Was Lost
Moyo suggests a two-fold strategy for western economic recovery. The first is refined and directed application of educational funds aimed specifically at improving our manufacturing capabilities (to help employ the poor) and to become more closed in our trading (to allow the wealthy to strengthen our core). She notes that this is the policy of eastern nations that have continued to allow them to grow.
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David Crystal – Texts and Tweets: myths and realities
David Crystal dispels many common myths about how texting and tweeting are ruining language. For example, the younger a person gets a mobile phone and starts texting, and the more they text, the better their writing (including spelling) and reading skills are. Which, he points out, is obvious because the whole mechanism of texting is writing messages and reading responses. He also identifies studies that show that texting shorthand is not showing up in school papers and essays. -
What’s invisible? More than you think – John Lloyd
Lloyd takes viewers on a short (animated) journey through the world of things that we cannot see. Interestingly, most of the things we cannot see provide the foundation of the world we can see.