THE MODERN WEB contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there’s no panacea for what ails this internet we’ve built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that’s been there all along but has often…
Source: What is the cost of interrupting a radiologist? Interruptions change focus and time spent on case reviews, but don’t increase error rate — ScienceDaily [dropcap]R[/dropcap]ESEARCH says it takes 20-25 minutes to get back into the groove after an interruption. For a 45 minute class that means just one interruption can ruin a day. I’ve talked…
Source: My Notes – Chrome Web Store Maybe you don’t want to use Google Keep for notes? My Notes is a Chrome extension that will save your notes to your Google Drive account, right from the browser. Once installed, you will need to authenticate your Google account to begin using the extension. To activate My Notes,…
Source: Webjets.io – The new way to collect, organize and share anything It’s always nice to have another option, and Webjets looks pretty good. You can sign up with a Google account, which is always nice. One really cool feature is the ability to pull in content through IFTTT recipes. I sent an email asking about…
Social media privacy getting you down? Would you like to be notified automatically when your favorite websites are updated? RSS is the tool for you! What is RSS? Real Simple Syndication (RSS) is a method for website sites to publish updates. An RSS reader can subscribe to RSS feeds, giving the user a list of…
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Teachers wishing to offer lessons in nature may hold back for fear of leaving students keyed up and unable to concentrate in subsequent, indoor lessons. This study tested the hypothesis that lessons in nature have positive—not negative—aftereffects on subsequent classroom engagement. Using carefully matched pairs of lessons (one in a relatively natural outdoor setting and…
The results show that during slow wave sleep, the largest connections are maintained while the smaller ones are lost. This brain mechanism improves the signal-to-noise ratio — important information remains and the dispensable is discarded — and allows the storage of various types of information from one day to the next without losing the previous…
When I was a child in small-town West Virginia, there weren’t many options for entertainment after school or on weekends: I could walk to a friend’s house. I could watch TV on our 13 fuzzy channels. Or I could read. And so I read, and read, and read—hours and even whole days would pass with…