ScienceDebate2008 and blog carnivals

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 12, 2008

The move­ment to have US pres­i­den­tial candidates dis­cuss Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy in a devot­ed debate has been pick­ing up steam. Date and place are sched­uled: April 18th at the Franklin Insti­tute in Philadel­phia. — cospon­sored by the AAAS, the Coun­cil on Com­pet­i­tive­ness, the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Engi­neer­ing, and the Insti­tute of…

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Good blogs on health, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, education, business and more

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 4, 2007 |

Here you have a few recent great blog car­ni­vals (col­lec­tions of select­ed blog posts focused on spe­cif­ic top­ics): — Grand Rounds: health and med­i­cine — Encephalon: neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy — COTC: busi­ness and entre­pre­neur­ship — Human Resources: arti­cles for HR pro­fes­sion­als — Edu­ca­tion: arti­cles for K12 teach­ers and staff — Tan­gled Bank: gen­er­al science  — Books: good book…

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Cognitive Fitness, The Future of Work, and Concept Maps

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 18, 2007 |

Some weeks ago we explained how use­ful Con­cept Maps can be to quick­ly visu­al­ize the key ideas in a field, and their rela­tion­ships. Let me show you this fan­tas­tic exam­ple. A few weeks ago I was inter­viewed by David Pescovitz of the Insti­tute for the Future (blog) to dis­cuss The Future of Work and Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness trends.…

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“Everyone a Changemaker”, Ashoka and Google

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 15, 2006 |

What an event yes­ter­day night. My wife and I were for­tu­nate to vis­it the Google Cam­pus and attend the Sixth Annu­al North Amer­i­can Fel­low­ship Induc­tion Pro­gram of Ashoka: Inno­va­tors for the Pub­lic, a social ven­ture fund where we have been involved for a num­ber of years, and thanks to which (thanks Michele!) my wife and…

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