How To Learn Sign Language
December 27, 2019
One of the most amazing discoveries, it completely surprised me, and that’s what I like most in research is when you learn something you didn’t you were going to learn. That’s very different from research where you prove something you Read more…
December 19, 2019
Probably the most famous product of the Enlightenment was the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution, a blueprint for a form of governance that tried to get the benefits of government—seeing as how anarchy is worse because you get spirals Read more…
November 23, 2019
CHERYL HELLER: I just this weekend was at an event called Drawdown Learn with Paul Hawken based on his book Drawdown. And the work that he and the group of scientists have done in explaining what we need to do Read more…
I think the favorite lesson that I like to teach is the Spanish Armada in 1588, sent there by King Philip II of Spain, and the defense against the Spanish Armada led by Queen Elizabeth I, and what happened to Read more…
November 22, 2019
One of the fun things that you can do in everyday life is to develop a technique that I call the love detector. And here’s how it works. In everyday life we are constantly mirroring with our facial expressions, with Read more…
So these are two main approaches to language. There’s prescriptivism and descriptivism. Prescriptivism is a believe that the “best practices” of English will prevail. And so you champion the best practices of English. And the idea of the best practices Read more…
MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN: “No” doesn’t feel so good. We feel a little uncomfortable. We feel bad saying no. “No” to something is “yes” to something else. And that’s the first thing you need to think about to give yourself permission Read more…
November 21, 2019
High above our heads is the International Space Station. It’s an amazing, complex thing—the most complicated thing we’ve ever built in space, one of the most complex international projects ever conceived and ever completed. But the keyword of that is Read more…
November 8, 2019
There are conversations that will intensify conflict or the potential thereof. And there are conversations who will intensify understanding, potentially even resolution. Conversations that are sure to polarize in which for everything you say I come back with what I Read more…
November 5, 2019
Eventually, a computer chip will cost a penny, which is the cost of scrap paper. They’ll be everywhere and nowhere, including your eyeball, in your contact lens. You’ll blink, and you’ll be online. And who are the first people to Read more…
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