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- April 23, 2017
- 12:30 AM
- 459 views
Intrinsic Motivation Is Caused by Achievement
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
Education interventions (specifically those dealing with mathematics education) designed to increase achievement may be better uses of time than those designed to increase intrinsic motivation.... Read more »
Garon-Carrier, G., Boivin, M., Guay, F., Kovas, Y., Dionne, G., Lemelin, J., Séguin, J., Vitaro, F., & Tremblay, R. (2016) Intrinsic Motivation and Achievement in Mathematics in Elementary School: A Longitudinal Investigation of Their Association. Child Development, 87(1), 165-175. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12458
- April 11, 2017
- 11:22 AM
- 565 views
Risking Limb for Life? (A Guest Post)
by Miss Behavior in The Scorpion and the Frog
By Matthew Whitley Imagine you are walking alone in parking lot, when suddenly somebody grabs you by the arm and flashes a knife, demanding your money. Do you A) scream for help, B) try to wrestle the knife away, or C) remove your arm from your shoulder and make a break for it? Disarming your assailant may seem preferable to dis-arming yourself, but for a lizard option C is a likely response. A lizard tail left behind. Image by Metatron at Wikimedia Commons.You likely have heard before that many........ Read more »
Bateman, P., & Fleming, P. (2009) To cut a long tail short: a review of lizard caudal autotomy studies carried out over the last 20 years. Journal of Zoology, 277(1), 1-14. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00484.x
Clause, A., & Capaldi, E. (2006) Caudal autotomy and regeneration in lizards. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology, 305A(12), 965-973. DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.346
Gilbert, E., Payne, S., & Vickaryous, M. (2013) The Anatomy and Histology of Caudal Autotomy and Regeneration in Lizards. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 86(6), 631-644. DOI: 10.1086/673889
- April 1, 2017
- 03:30 PM
- 477 views
Educational Achievement and Religiosity
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
Religiosity may be correlated with lower educational achievement because people have a finite amount of time and attention, and spending time learning about religion or engaging in religious activities necessarily takes time away from learning math and science.... Read more »
Stoet, G., & Geary, D. (2017) Students in countries with higher levels of religiosity perform lower in science and mathematics. Intelligence. DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2017.03.001
- March 21, 2017
- 11:04 AM
- 571 views
The Weirdest Animals on Earth: 12 Amazing Facts About Platypuses
by Miss Behavior in The Scorpion and the Frog
What IS that? A photo by Stefan Kraft at Wikimedia Commons.1. Platypuses are so strange, that when British scientists first encountered one, they thought it was a joke: A Governor of New South Wales, Australia, sent a platypus pelt and sketch to British scientists in 1798. Even in their first published scientific description of the species, biologists thought that this duck-beaked, beaver-bodied, web-footed specimen may be some Frankenstein-like creation stitched together as a hoax. But this is ........ Read more »
Scheich, H., Langner, G., Tidemann, C., Coles, R., & Guppy, A. (1986) Electroreception and electrolocation in platypus. Nature, 319(6052), 401-402. DOI: 10.1038/319401a0
Warren, W., Hillier, L., Marshall Graves, J., Birney, E., Ponting, C., Grützner, F., Belov, K., Miller, W., Clarke, L., Chinwalla, A.... (2008) Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution. Nature, 453(7192), 175-183. DOI: 10.1038/nature06936
- March 6, 2017
- 12:46 AM
- 438 views
If Collectivists like Social Groups, and Cities are Social Groups, do Collectivists like Cities?
by Mark Rubin in Mark Rubin's Social Psychology Research Blog
Do you like the place where you live? Maybe its got great architecture, its clean and crime free, the housing is cheap, and/or the nightlife is good? But maybe your liking for the place is also related to something else - your own tendency to identify with social groups? In some recent research, my colleagues and I investigated this issue by considering the relations between collectivism, city identification, and city evaluation.Collectivism is a sociocultural orientation towards perceiving the ........ Read more »
Rubin, M., Badea, C., Condie, J., Mahfud, Y., Morrison, T., & Peker, M. (2017) Individual differences in collectivism predict city identification and city evaluation in Australian, French, and Turkish cities. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 9-16. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.01.007
- February 26, 2017
- 07:53 PM
- 463 views
Expert Knowledge: Birds and Worms
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
As adults with expert knowledge, we see the logical and mathematical similarities between the “how many more” and “won’t get” situations, and, thus we are easily fooled into believing that applying skills and knowledge in one task is equivalent to doing so in the other.... Read more »
Hudson, T. (1983) Correspondences and Numerical Differences between Disjoint Sets. Child Development, 54(1), 84. DOI: 10.2307/1129864
- February 4, 2017
- 05:30 PM
- 645 views
Hidden Symmetries
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
The key ideas in the article center around (a) the standard multiplication table—with a row of numbers at the top, a column of numbers down the left, and the products of those numbers in the body of the table, and (b) modulus.... Read more »
Barka, Z. (2017) The Hidden Symmetries of the Multiplication Table. Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 7(1), 189-203. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.201701.15
- December 8, 2016
- 11:56 AM
- 703 views
The Reconstruction of Ships: Sailing the Seas of International Collaboration
by Filipe Castro in United Academics
Working for both public and private institutions, archaeologists constantly construct and deconstruct narratives about our past, but traditionally publish only a fraction of the sites they excavate and thus destroy. Computers and the internet present a vast range of opportunities for archaeologists to share primary data and foster intercultural online collaborations and reinterpretations of archaeological contexts. ... Read more »
Bass, G. (1961) The Cape Gelidonya Wreck: Preliminary Report. American Journal of Archaeology, 65(3), 267. DOI: 10.2307/501687
- November 13, 2016
- 09:39 AM
- 599 views
Damn You, Darwin! Pt1. Cat & Mouse
by AG McCluskey in Zongo's Cancer Diaries
The emergence of therapy resistance in tumours can be described using Darwinian evolutionary theory. This post provides a brief description of Darwin's theory. The next post will apply the theory to tumour development.... Read more »
Darwin, Charles. (1876) The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511694295
AG McCluskey. (2016) Damn You Darwin! Pt1: Cat . Zongo's Cancer Diaries. info:/
- October 11, 2016
- 11:37 AM
- 639 views
Nae Trainers!
by AG McCluskey in Zongo's Cancer Diaries
This post covers multi-drug resistance in tumours....and why a cancer cell is like a Nightclub!... Read more »
Review article. (2000) Cancer multidrug resistance. Nature Biotechnology, 18(Supp). DOI: 10.1038/80051
AG McCluskey. (2016) Nae Trainers!. Zongo's Cancer Diaries. info:/
- October 3, 2016
- 01:08 PM
- 806 views
The 7 Most Interesting Extrasolar Systems.
by Jeffrey Daniels in United Academics
Beyond the well-known Solar System, there is an immensity of other unique systems... Read more »
Johanna K. Teske, Stephen A. Shectman, Steve S. Vogt, Matías Díaz, R. Paul Butler, Jeffrey D. Crane, Ian B. Thompson, & Pamela Arriagada. (2016) The Magellan PFS Planet Search Program: Radial Velocity and Stellar Abundance Analyses of the 360 AU, Metal-Poor Binary "Twins" HD 133131A . Astronomical Journal,. arXiv: 1608.06216v2
Orosz, J., Welsh, W., Carter, J., Fabrycky, D., Cochran, W., Endl, M., Ford, E., Haghighipour, N., MacQueen, P., Mazeh, T.... (2012) Kepler-47: A Transiting Circumbinary Multiplanet System. Science, 337(6101), 1511-1514. DOI: 10.1126/science.1228380
R. Di Stefano, & A. Ray. (2016) Globular Clusters as Cradles of Life and Advanced Civilizations. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL , 827(1). arXiv: 1601.03455v1
Marcelo Tucci Maia, Jorge Melendez, & Ivan Ramirez. (2014) High precision abundances in the 16 Cyg binary system: a signature of the rocky core in the giant planet. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS , 790(2). arXiv: 1407.4132v1
Anglada-Escudé, G., Amado, P., Barnes, J., Berdiñas, Z., Butler, R., Coleman, G., de la Cueva, I., Dreizler, S., Endl, M., Giesers, B.... (2016) A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri. Nature, 536(7617), 437-440. DOI: 10.1038/nature19106
Borucki, W., Agol, E., Fressin, F., Kaltenegger, L., Rowe, J., Isaacson, H., Fischer, D., Batalha, N., Lissauer, J., Marcy, G.... (2013) Kepler-62: A Five-Planet System with Planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth Radii in the Habitable Zone. Science, 340(6132), 587-590. DOI: 10.1126/science.1234702
Stephen R. Kane, & Dawn M. Gelino. (2014) On the Inclination and Habitability of the HD 10180 System. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 792(2). arXiv: 1408.4150v1
- September 16, 2016
- 10:45 PM
- 812 views
Contiguity Effective for Deductive Inference
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
Post moved: http://guzintamath.com/blog/2016/09/contiguity-effective-deductive-inference/
Even if the benefits of retrieval practice were limited to improvements in recall (as prior research has demonstrated), such improvements do not stand in the way of improvements to higher-order reasoning, such as inference-making. (And shaping the path for students, such as improving informational contiguity can have a positive effect too.)... Read more »
Eglington, L., & Kang, S. (2016) Retrieval Practice Benefits Deductive Inference. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-016-9386-y
- September 12, 2016
- 07:19 AM
- 679 views
Strength In Numbers
by AG McCluskey in Zongo's Cancer Diaries
This post describes the concept behind combination therapies for cancer. Why are they needed? Why can they fail...?... Read more »
Komarova, N., & Boland, C. (2013) Cancer: Calculated treatment. Nature, 499(7458), 291-292. DOI: 10.1038/499291a
AG McCluskey. (2016) Strength in Numbers. Zongo's Cancer Diaries. info:/
- August 23, 2016
- 12:30 PM
- 746 views
Otulipenia – A New Inflammatory Disease
by Rita dos Santos Silva in United Academics
Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, working in collaboration with Turkish and British teams, discovered a new inflammatory disease.... Read more »
Zhou, Q., Wang, H., Schwartz, D., Stoffels, M., Park, Y., Zhang, Y., Yang, D., Demirkaya, E., Takeuchi, M., Tsai, W.... (2015) Loss-of-function mutations in TNFAIP3 leading to A20 haploinsufficiency cause an early-onset autoinflammatory disease. Nature Genetics, 48(1), 67-73. DOI: 10.1038/ng.3459
Elliott, P., Nielsen, S., Marco-Casanova, P., Fiil, B., Keusekotten, K., Mailand, N., Freund, S., Gyrd-Hansen, M., & Komander, D. (2014) Molecular Basis and Regulation of OTULIN-LUBAC Interaction. Molecular Cell, 54(3), 335-348. DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.03.018
- August 23, 2016
- 12:29 PM
- 793 views
Otulipenia – A New Inflammatory Disease
by Rita dos Santos Silva in United Academics
Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, working in collaboration with Turkish and British teams, discovered a new inflammatory disease.... Read more »
Zhou, Q., Wang, H., Schwartz, D., Stoffels, M., Park, Y., Zhang, Y., Yang, D., Demirkaya, E., Takeuchi, M., Tsai, W.... (2015) Loss-of-function mutations in TNFAIP3 leading to A20 haploinsufficiency cause an early-onset autoinflammatory disease. Nature Genetics, 48(1), 67-73. DOI: 10.1038/ng.3459
Elliott, P., Nielsen, S., Marco-Casanova, P., Fiil, B., Keusekotten, K., Mailand, N., Freund, S., Gyrd-Hansen, M., & Komander, D. (2014) Molecular Basis and Regulation of OTULIN-LUBAC Interaction. Molecular Cell, 54(3), 335-348. DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.03.018
- August 20, 2016
- 10:30 PM
- 767 views
Are Teaching and Learning Coevolved?
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
Post moved to http://guzintamath.com/blog/2016/08/teaching-learning-coevolved/
Strauss, Ziv, and Stein (2002) . . . point to the fact that the ability to teach arises spontaneously at an early age without any apparent instruction and that it is common to all human cultures as evidence that it is an innate ability. Essentially, they suggest that despite its complexity, teaching is a natural cognition that evolved alongside our ability to learn.... Read more »
- August 16, 2016
- 11:43 AM
- 703 views
The Angry Silence
by AG McCluskey in Zongo's Cancer Diaries
The experience of cancer patients has changed in many ways over the last 30 years. One massive improvement is that patients can talk about their diseases more freely.
And this may not just make them feel better, it might help to make them better too.......... Read more »
Lutgendorf, S., & Andersen, B. (2015) Biobehavioral approaches to cancer progression and survival: Mechanisms and interventions. American Psychologist, 70(2), 186-197. DOI: 10.1037/a0035730
MacMillan Cancer Support. (2016) Cancer: Then and Now. Diagnosis, treatment and aftercare from 1970–2016. MacMillan Cancer Support. info:/
- August 1, 2016
- 08:22 AM
- 730 views
Live Long & Prosper!
by AG McCluskey in Zongo's Cancer Diaries
Good news for cancer patients in the UK, as 10-year survival rates show big improvements.... Read more »
MacMillan Cancer Support. (2016) Cancer: Then and Now. Diagnosis, treatment and aftercare from 1970–2016. MacMillan Cancer Support. info:/
- July 30, 2016
- 08:30 PM
- 883 views
Problem Solving, Instruction: Chicken, Egg
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
Post moved: http://guzintamath.com/blog/2016/07/problem-solving-instruction-chicken-egg/
When research has more fairly compared PS-I with I-PS, it has concluded that, in general, the sequence doesn't matter all that much, though there are some positive trends on conceptual and transfer assessments for PS-I.... Read more »
Loibl, K., Roll, I., & Rummel, N. (2016) Towards a Theory of When and How Problem Solving Followed by Instruction Supports Learning. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-016-9379-x
- July 18, 2016
- 09:30 PM
- 965 views
Interleaving Study Is Not Interleaving Learning
by Joshua Fisher in Text Savvy
Post moved: http://guzintamath.com/blog/2016/07/interleaving-learning/
In the latest research, the authors found that a blocked schedule (presenting examples from one category at a time) outperformed an interleaved schedule (interspersing examples from all the categories) for category learning when the examples to be classified were more highly discriminable. This result was consistent across the two experiments in the study (p = 0.055 and p = 0.04). Importantly, however, although interleavin........ Read more »
Noh, S., Yan, V., Bjork, R., & Maddox, W. (2016) Optimal sequencing during category learning: Testing a dual-learning systems perspective. Cognition, 23-29. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.06.007
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