Working on Borrowed Time

Studying on borrowed time: How does testing impair new learning?

Retrieving studied materials often enhances subsequent learning of new materials (Pastötter & Bäuml, 2014). However, retrieval has also been shown to impair new learning (Finn & Roediger, 2013). In this article, we attempted to determine when retrieval enhances and when it impairs new learning. We argue that testing impairs new learning when one intermixes testing with new learning, which biase...

Living dangerously on borrowed time during slow, unrecognized regime shifts.

Regime shifts from one ecological state to another are often portrayed as sudden, dramatic, and difficult to reverse. Yet many regime shifts unfold slowly and imperceptibly after a tipping point has been exceeded, especially at regional and global scales. These long, smooth transitions between equilibrium states are easy to miss, ignore, or deny, confounding management and governance. However, ...

Borrowed Children

Remedies. By Mrs. St. Loe Strachey, O.B.E., J.P. Introduction by Amabel Williams-Ellis. John Murray. Cloth, 2s. 6d.; Paper, Is. 6d. From a " popular account " one expects, amongst other things, human touches and anecdotes plus a dash of practical advice. This little book gives more. In parts it is intimate; it is rich in vivid illustrations of the ups and downs in the lives of evacuated childre...

Can rules be borrowed?

Nonhomogeneity Analysis Using Borrowed Strength

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