Information Overload? Seven Learning and Productivity Tips

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 19, 2007 |

We often talk in this blog about how to expand fun­da­men­tal abil­i­ties or cog­ni­tive func­tions, like atten­tion, or mem­o­ry, or emo­tion­al self-reg­u­la­­tion. Think of them as mus­cles one can train. Now, it is also impor­tant to think of ways one can use our exist­ing mus­cles more effi­cient­ly. Let’s talk about how to man­age bet­ter the…

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Education and science blogs, with Singularity bonus

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 14, 2007

Two of the best blog car­ni­vals: For edu­ca­tion The Car­ni­val Of Edu­ca­tion For all things sci­ence: Tan­gled Bank And a very infor­ma­tive post via Mind­Hacks on what Sin­gu­lar­i­ty is and a tech­ni­cal guide to key terms of tran­shu­man­ism — “an opti­mistic move­ment that seeks to apply cur­rent and future sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­er­ies to extend­ing human expe­ri­ence and…

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