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Underground Unlearning
"Clearly there is a lot going on deep in the Earth that is completely unknown to science." So concludes this fascinating article in The Economist on, of all things, carbon. Did you know, for example,...
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Shopping for the Truth
Last week, it was reported that frequent shopping by men and women increases the life expectancy of people in Taiwan. This is undoubtedly great news for shopoholics but before you rush out to the...
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A Curious Connection? Brains, Mind Maps and the Universe
Take a look at the pictures to the right. The symmetry between microscopic neurons and a macroscopic galaxy is rather surprising. Is there a connection between the two? Honestly, I don’t know but I do...
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An Antidisciplinary Approach to Learning — and Unlearning
“One of the most important disciplines in the twenty-first will be no discipline at all,” writes Frank Moss in his new book, The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices—a new book about MIT’s Media Lab. So...
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Another Reason to Develop a Little Unconfidence
Developing a healthy dose of unconfidence can be helpful in unlearning. Ironically, one of the things many U.S. students must unlearn is their high level confidence in their math and science scores....
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Don’t Assume You More Than You Do
"... he has persuaded me that we can solve many of our problems as long as we don't assume that we know more than we do." So concludes John Horgan in his insightful review of David Deutsch's new book,...
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Contest Your Ideas
I recently finished reading an insightful chapter in the new book, Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge. The book contains a series of essays from some of today’s brightest young scientists....
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Unlearning Beyond the Speed of Light
Are you prepared to unlearn faster than the speed of light? You may need to because new results suggest (but are not yet proven) that neutrinos are moving faster than the speed of light. If true, this...
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The Final Word isn’t Final
It would be nice to believe that “the final word” is really the final word, unfortunately it rarely is. Michio Kaku has an interesting article on the possible discovery that the speeding neutrino might...
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The Future of Publishing & The Endless Book of Unlearning
“Students don’t buy a copy of the book—they buy lifetime access. The plan is for the textbook to serve not only as a reference for the class but as a pointer to further knowledge. Instead of publishing...
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