911 dispatcher stays on the phone to help boy with homework A 911 dispatcher is getting praised for taking the time out of her day to assist a young caller who needed help with his homework. Antonia Bundy, who works for the Lafayette Police Department in Indiana, stayed on the phone with a boy who […]
New Netflix Show ‘Brainchild’ Makes Science Fun For Kids : NPR Netflix YouTube What exactly are memories? How big is the universe? Do fish pee? “You’re about to find out,” promises Sahana Srinivasan in the trailer for Netflix’s new science show ” Brainchild .” Likened to popular science shows for children — such as ” […]
Will the End of Moore’s Law Halt AI Progresss? johnnyb (Slashdot reader #4,816) writes: Kurzweil’s conception of “The Singularity” has been at the forefront of the media conception of artificial intelligence for many years now. But how close is that to reality? Will AI’s be able to design ever-more-powerf… Read More…
World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset.Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability […]
How a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Smashed the Gender Divide in American High Schools Fifty years ago this month, at a time when America was divided on questions of war, race, and gender, Alice de Rivera decided that she was fed up with her lousy high school in New York. She was thirteen, with arching eyebrows that […]
