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The (Monkey) Business Of Recognizing Words

Researchers studied baboons, including this one, and found that with training, they could distinguish real four-letter English words from four letters that weren't a word.
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New research shows that first-graders and baboons have at least one thing in common: Both can tell the difference between actual written words and random sequences of letters. This finding challenges some conventional ideas about what goes on in the human brain when we read.

The new research appears in the journal Science.

Adobe TV

Adobe TV is Adobe's online TV network, offering free training, inspiration, and information about the latest Adobe products & services. The best of Adobe's expertise and community is now in one place. Watch when you want and where you want, save episodes, subscribe to your favorite channel, and post videos on your blog. And it's not only the talent that's in action - Adobe TV itself is produced and delivered using Adobe products and technologies. From planning to playback, Adobe TV is brought to you by Adobe.

Set Sail with Swati

Swati Shah is an enthusiast of sailing whose enjoys reading sea poetry to the crew. This is her first radio show to share the beauty of poetry and the love of the water. She is an art appreciator and has organized some art exhibitions featuring Caribbean artists. My passion is to build community between New York City and the Caribbean to showcase the art and culture of the Caribbean.

Hosted by Swati Shah, ‘Set Sail with Swati’ brings creativity to the sailing experience through classical sea poetry, sailing folklore and Caribbean sailing stories.

The show explores specific nautical topics (Age of Sail, nautical expressions) and interviews local sailors of their sailing adventures. Also the show highlights various artists, players and events in the nautical community.

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Catlett Blazed Trails As An African-American Artist: - died in her sleep , at age 96.

Artist Elizabeth Catlett began creating powerful images of strong African-Americans before World War II, when the art world had little interest in such portrayals. Yet she held to her convictions, and today her etchings and sculptures are in major museums around the world.

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Sharecroppers, laborers, mothers and their children -- these people have captured the imagination of sculptor Elizabeth Catlett for over 40 years. Catlett talked about her life and work at the Museum of Modern Art earlier this week and WNYC's Siddhartha Mitter was there.

Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, at the Bronx Museum

Elizabeth Catlett was the granddaughter of slaves, and that legacy had a lasting impact on her life and her work. Her art was highly political. She moved to Mexico in the 1940s. From there she supported the civil rights struggle back in the U.S. and also addressed political scandals in Latin America.

Her art and activism caught the attention of the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee during the 1950s. She was denied admission back into the U.S. for nearly a decade after the government labeled her an undesirable alien. Despite the government's scrutiny, Catlett never became a well-known public figure.

Howard was not her first choice. She had won a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute of Technology, in Pittsburgh, but the college refused to allow her to matriculate when it learned she was black.

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Elizabeth Catlett's intimate portrayal of an elderly black female sharecropper

Her best-known works depict black women as strong, maternal figures. In one early sculpture, “Mother and Child’’ (1939), a young woman with close-cropped hair and features resembling a Gabon mask cradles a child against her shoulder. It won first prize in sculpture at the American Negro Exposition in Chicago. In a recent piece, “Bather’’ (2009), a similar-looking subject flexes her triceps in a gesture of vitality and confidence.

Her art did not exclude men; “Invisible Man,’’ her 15-foot-high bronze memorial to the author Ralph Ellison, can be seen in Riverside Park in New York.
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Her art was often presented in the United States, in major surveys in the 1960s and ’70s in particular, among them “Two Centuries of Black American Art,’’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1976. Her posters of Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis, Malcolm X, and other figures were widely distributed.
Alice Elizabeth Catlett was born in Washington, the youngest of three children. Her mother was a truant officer; her father, who died before she was born, had taught at Tuskegee University and in public schools.

Elizabeth Catlett with a model for “Reclining Woman’’ in 2002.

Celebrating Black History Month in New York City

Ms. Catlett's "Homage to Black Women Poets."
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Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues...

Look | What Happens to Your Electronics: Inside An E-Recycling Plant

Look | What Happens to Your Electronics: Inside An E-Recycling Plant - WNYC

College Student Pieces His Way To Lego Mastery : NPR

College Student Pieces His Way To Lego Mastery : NPR


Only four people in the United States carry the official designation of Lego Master Model Builder. And 23-year-old Andrew Johnson of Illinois is the newest — and youngest — to earn the title.

Instead of filling out an employment application, Johnson submitted a stop-animation video featuring a Lego catapult firing a boulder at a dragon. On the basis of that video, he was chosen to battle other candidates in a three-round build-off in front of an audience of kids and parents.

Apple stock predicted to hit $1,000 a share | Marketplace from American Public Media

 An iPhone not just a phone. It’s a music player, a book reader, a calendar, a notebook, a camera, a GPS device, a voice recorder and a video-game machine. And it syncs with a Mac, and an iPad.

a shareholder, says Apple has given birth to an entire ecosystem.

Apple stock predicted to hit $1,000 a share | Marketplace from American Public Media

Not so, though, Apple stock. Three years it ago, it went for something near $100 a share. Two months ago, $500. Today, $629 and change. It's the kind of rise that's fun to watch, but that tends to make actual Apple investors nervous.

That Apple’s labor issues in China won’t trim the company’s profits. Customers continue to crave Apple products and for investors too, it’s also about emotion. It’s called Apple Fever.

Federal Court Strikes Down Key Provisions of Walker's Act 10 as Unconstitutional

Several public employee unions had challenged the fact that Walker's bill exempted certain law enforcement and firefighter's unions from Act 10's restrictions, including the law's requirement that unions recertify annually with an absolute majority of members and its prohibition on voluntary union dues deductions

Unions Treated Differently for Political Reasons

According to the decision, Act 10 created two new categories of employees: "public safety employees" that were exempt from the collective bargaining restrictions and "general employees," a classification that "does not correspond to any classification of employees in any previous Wisconsin law."

"So long as the State of Wisconsin continues to afford ordinary certification and dues deductions to mandatory public safety unions with sweeping bargaining rights, there is no rational basis to deny those rights to voluntary general unions with severely restricted bargaining rights," wrote U.S. District Judge William M. Conley.


The suit was filed by multiple public employee unions, including the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the Wisconsin Council of County and Municipal Employees, multiple district councils of the AFL-CIO and AFSCME, SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin, CTW, CLC; American Federation for Teachers - Wisconsin; and the Wisconsin State Employees Union. Defendants in the suit included Governor Walker and head of the Department of Administration Michael Huebsch, as well as the heads of the offices tasked with implementing the law.

Flipped learning: A response to five common criticisms

Over the past two years, the Flipped Learning method has created quite a stir. Some argue that this teaching method will completely transform education, while others say it is simply an opportunity for boring lectures to be viewed in new locations.  If this is the definition, then we should all be skeptical. Instead, we should look closer at Dr. Mazur’s work. The components he includes in his implementation make for a thoughtful, rigorous experience.  Dr. Mazur has a video describing his integrated Flipped Learning and Peer Instruction methods...By Alan November and Brian Mull


If [teachers]they have provided students with an array of rich resources and have set up opportunities for students to think deeply and question what they have learned at home before coming to class, these teachers are going to see that there are a wide array of new questions that arise that might never have come up during a standard class period. In these cases, teachers are really going to need to know their stuff, and they are going to need to be able to individualize on the fly—quite possibly five, 10, or even 20 times in a class period. 

Also, teachers are also going to need to figure out the right questions to ask when students come to class. These questions should have students address their misconceptions about and apply their knowledge concerning what they have learned on their own. During a conversation with Dr. Mazur, he shared that this is the most difficult, but also the most crucial, part.



Dr. Mazur’s Learning Catalytics software allows students to engage with application problems during class. Students respond to these problems using their individual laptops, smart phones, and tablets. The system then keeps track of all responses and intelligently points students to other classmates with whom they can debate their responses. The system records all of the responses over the entire span of the course, allowing a teacher to visualize the learning and the struggles of all students.

Kids do not want to sit at home watching boring video lectures on the web. At least in the classroom, they get some kind of interaction with me and with their peers. This is just a lot of excitement over bad pedagogy.

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The Celebration of Teaching & Learning 2012

 Sal Khan 
He has produced over 2,300 popular videos elucidating a wide spectrum of concepts, mainly focusing on mathematics and the sciences, in his home. His official channel, Khan Academy has attracted more than 50 million views.
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