Weird World: Education & Learning
May 14, 2024
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Mar. 5, 2024 Sprinting 'like a jet plane taking off' will help produce Premier League star strikers of tomorrow, new research has revealed. A new study of Tottenham Hotspur's academy has shown that just a few ...
Jan. 23, 2024 A research team announced they have identified the principle by which musical instincts emerge from the human brain without special learning using an artificial neural network ...
Oct. 30, 2023 Researchers in the field of human-technology interaction have demonstrated how a custom-built 'data-to-music' algorithms can help to better understand complex data. The transformation of digital data into sounds could be a game-changer in the ...
July 31, 2023 The artificial intelligence language model GPT-3 performed as well as college students in solving certain logic problems like those that appear on standardized tests. The researchers who conducted the experiment write that the results prompt the ...
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June 15, 2023 Numerous visual illusions are caused by limits in the way our eyes and visual neurones work -- rather than more complex psychological processes, new research ...
Oct. 21, 2022 By embracing a broader definition of learning that includes any behavioral adaption developed in response to regular features of an environment, ...
May 5, 2022 Researchers have uncovered how signals from a group of neurons in the brain's frontal lobe simultaneously give humans the flexibility to learn new tasks -- and the focus to develop highly specific ...
Feb. 23, 2022 A professor has used Minecraft to teach a class on the history and culture of modernity. The course was based entirely within the game server, with instructions, in-class communication and course ...
Oct. 6, 2021 Using data from NASA OSIRIS-REx mission, scientists concluded that asteroids with highly porous rocks, such as Bennu, should lack fine-grained material on their ...
June 10, 2021 Children with reading and writing difficulties who are presented with text on screens with flickering white noise both read better and remember what ...
June 9, 2021 New research has revealed that people with the ability to visualize vividly have a stronger connection between their visual network and the regions of the brain linked to decision-making. The study ...
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Apr. 24, 2024 A university professor has found a way to help students -- and himself -- power through long lecture classes: exercise breaks. A new study showed that five-minute exercise sessions during lectures ...
Feb. 7, 2024 A teacher's gender and comfort with technology factor into whether artificial intelligence is adopted in the classroom, as shown in a new ...
Dec. 4, 2023 The sound a disc makes while soaring through the air is full of information about how fast the disc is flying and how quickly it spins. This inspired Kyle S. Dalton of Penn State University to ...
Mar. 3, 2022 A physics professor has developed an innovative activity that poses the question: Is Usain Bolt faster than a 900-pound ...