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Cognitive Distraction : Something to Think About Lessons Learned from Recent Studies June 2013

How to Think About Algorithms

Thinking: Students are very good at learning how to apply a concrete code to a concrete input instance. They tend, however, to find it difficult to think abstractly about the algorithms. I maintain that the more abstractions a person has from which to view the problem, the deeper his understanding of it will be, the more tools he will have at his disposal, and the better prepared he will be to ...

Think about Neurobrucellosis, When a Man Cries

Neurobrucellosis (N.B) is a rare and severe form of systemic Brucella infection. We introduced an unusual case that “Psychologic Symptoms” was the most prominent complaints of his family. He was a 50-year-old man who has worked in butchery. His problems had begun 2 months prior to his admission with mood disorders, arthralgia, weakness, headache, and night sweats; he has recurrent crying with n...

Corvid Cognition: Something to Crow About?

New research indicates that crows are capable of matching stimuli on the basis of analogical relations: that is, similarity of size, color and shape. This may be the first evidence for spontaneous analogical reasoning outside of the primate order.

Time to do something about reproducibility

Individual scientists, scientific communities and scientific journals can do more to assess the publication of irreproducible results, to promote good science, and to increase the efficiency with which the scientific community self-corrects.