Memory Tasks Improve When Sleep Follows Learning
POSTED: 8:47 am CST February 1, 2008
A brief daytime nap can help people learning new things, according to a new study. Matthew Tucker of the Harvard Medical School worked with 33 people in their early 20s. They were trained on memory tasks at 12:15 p.m. and 1 p.m. Sixteen [...]
For anyone who needs to communicate their thoughts to others, this book is a must read!
Brothers Chip Heath and Dan Heath are the co-authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die . The book has been featured in Time, U.S. News & World Report, People, Fast Company, Inc., on The [...]
How many millions of these are out there?
The Taleban in Afghanistan have used a boy of around 12 to behead a man they accused of spying for the US. Parts of a video of the beheading were broadcast on the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV network.
The Taleban said the dead man, Ghulam Nabi, had given the US [...]
Supporting evil, failure, and wrong. The elite blueprint for utopia.
Senator John McCain met a question, while sitting with reporters on his bus as it rumbled through Iowa today, that he couldn’t – or perhaps wouldn’t – answer.
Did he support the distribution of taxpayer-subsidized condoms in Africa to fight the transmission of H.I.V.?
What followed was a long series of awkward pauses, glances up to the [...]
This quote from P.T. Forsyth (1907) was posted on the wall in my last classroom for 10 years. Many times students would ask me for an explanation. The discussions that followed also included ideas presented in the following:
Corinthians 15:19 (NIV) “If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied [...]
Patrick Mead produces another riveting post:
“Allow me to move away from the USA for one blog and introduce you to a hidden and forgotten people that once lived among us but who are now less than a memory in their own land. After the Civil War (or the War of Northern Aggression) many Southerners felt [...]
Claude Allegre, one of France’s leading socialists and among her most celebrated scientists, was among the first to sound the alarm about the dangers of global warming…. Dr. Allegre now sees global warming as over-hyped and an environmental concern of second rank.
Accepted theories about man causing global warming are “lies” claims a controversial new TV [...]
Sunday: Shift Happens
Monday: I’ve been linked.
Tuesday: Calculate your carbon footprint. Can you beat Al Gore?
Wednesday: Text & Context #2: Authorial Givens - A must read for Bible students!!
Thursday: “God broke my car this morning” - A post from Jimmy.
Friday: One of my childhood heroes, Clem Labine, a relief pitcher who threw two of baseball’s most significant shutouts in [...]
So when the car starts we do not specifically praise God or think that he has intervened. Nor, when it fails do we (most of us, anyway) curse God or blame some petroleum-covered demon sent by Satan to torment us.
Because we are constantly living upon and in this material world, we have come to depend [...]
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