How the Brain Processes Different Components of Language - Moving beyond neural localization of language. Posted May 28, 2024
"...This is in line with recent ideas about a "cortical mosaic" architecture for linguistic structure within overlapping portions of posterior temporal and inferior frontal cortices for processing demands that bias syntactic and semantic computations, whereby, for example, effects of composition can be found within a narrow strip of tissue within the broader lexicality-sensitive cortical sites (a spatial mosaic), or where different demands of sentence-level inferential semantics can be detected over closely overlapping temporal windows within a small area of cortex (a spatiotemporal mosaic)..."
School Lunch Around the World - Not every country has the same recipe for brain food, by Andrew Coletti May 27, 2024
"...“School lunch is gross” is a longstanding cliche in American pop culture, and it seems just as relevant now as it was when I was a kid. In 2022, an anonymous New York City high schooler went viral for their Instagram documentations of school lunches that seemed baffling, nutritionally deficient, or just plain bad. One featured mozzarella sticks, two pieces of cauliflower, and a clementine, beside the word HELP scrawled in marinara sauce...."
And of course republicans begrudge the little bit of nutritionally useless junk American schools feed kids and would like to make kids go hungry all day.
“"The result of this vote is a message to government and the Saskatchewan School Boards Association (SSBA) that teachers need to see real changes to classroom complexity and compensation. In feedback from members, we heard clearly that their priorities haven't been adequately addressed." #Saskatchewan#Education#Skpoli
#NewYork Education Department Hindered an Abuse Investigation at Boarding School for #Autistic Youth
A judge ruled that the agency must cooperate in a #disability rights investigation into Shrub Oak International School, which charges up to $573K/year but has no meaningful oversight.
A ProPublica investigation found that would-be whistleblowers could not get state authorities to intervene at the #school.
In all seriousness, I find that Trump supporters and Putin supporters are very alike, just like all supporters of far-right populist leaders everywhere, specifically in that they are: extremely ignorant, genuinely racist, and easily swayed by angry nationalistic rhetoric.
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For example, it's possible to immigrate to a new country, get a degree from a law school in the bottom third of the US News rankings, and go on to be the first judge to convict a former US president of a felony. And the first judge to hold a former US president in contempt of court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Merchan
— #inspiration#NationOfImmigrants#education#law
"[H]ighly-educated people [...] tend to be significantly worse at gauging others’ political beliefs, often assuming other people are much more extreme or dogmatic than they actually seem to be. This is perhaps because, compared to the general public, highly-educated or intelligent people tend to be more ideological in their thinking, more ideologically rigid, and more extreme in their ideological leanings."
Neoliberal economics is killing the arts
By Tim Lutton, originally published by Red Pepper May 28, 2024
"...As a society, we must resist art-as-capital, where it is reduced to pure exchange value in a market of commodities. There, any politically-charged and counter-hegemonic content is rendered powerless, constituted as a stable harmonisation of the dominant socio-political order and drowning out all contradictions.
...In the present era, the tendency towards total marketisation of artistic production accompanies perpetual austerity and an atomised rentier economy that is shrinking public and social life. Without a rupture from neoliberal capitalism in general, the means to make new, generative and disruptive art disappears, and much else that is meaningful in our lives will follow after. The rest is silence."
Season 1 of the Galactic Cow launched in 2023, and we're starting work on Season 2. It's a great time to revisit your favorite episodes, or listen for the first time. If you are interested in what role education could play in our growth as a species ♥
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Season 1 of the Galactic Cow launched in 2023, and we're starting work on Season 2. It's a great time to revisit your favorite episodes, or listen for the first time. If you are interested in what role education could play in our growth as a species ♥
(PS - you should definitely subscribe to our Substack!)
Les #examens nationaux sont pour très bientôt et tout le monde s’y prépare. Il ne s’agit pas de les rater, surtout le #Bac. Et à propos de ce dernier, les candidats et futurs #bacheliers (c’est notre vœu) sont en train —avec leurs parents— de mettre les bouchées doubles. C’est une véritable revue avec surtout des cours de rattrapage et de révision . les résultats suivent. Bonne chance à tous.
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