Cheery Friday e-mails
Every Friday I send a “Cheery Friday” email chock full of insights about learning and changing to a million registered learners from the massive open online course (“MOOC”) Learning How to Learn. To receive these emails, just register for the course here (it’s free, and registration takes only a few seconds). “See” you on Friday!
Kieran Egan
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book (review) of the week: Kieran Egan’s “The Educated Mind” This book review (which won the ACX book review contest) introduced me to the ideas of someone I had never heard about before — Kieran Egan, the (recently deceased) Canadian educational philosopher. The review lays out Egan’s visio …
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Clear Thinking
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results, by Shane Parrish. Like half the planet, it seems, we are fans of Shane Parrish’s podcast The Knowledge Project. In Clear Thinking, Shane distills the best of what he’s learned over the years, both from his …
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Marie Curie: A Life
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn. Marie Curie is one of the greatest scientists of the last several centuries. Yet people often know little of the life of this extraordinary woman who helped unravel the mysteries of radiation—to her own, and her daughter’s, ultimate peril …
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The Battle over the Butterflies of the Soul
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week The Battle Over the Butterflies of the Soul: Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and the Birth of Neuroscience, by Wallace B. Mendelssohn, MD. One of the more intriguing rivalries in the history of science is that between the Italian Camillo Golgi and the Spaniard Santiag …
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Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Barb Giving a Dizzying Array of Talks in Guatemala in September If you are anywhere in Central America, take a look here and sign up for any of the many different talks, workshops and conferences that Barb will be giving in Guatemala City in the first two weeks of September. If Learning How t …
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Books of the Week Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel, by George Saunders. While spending time in the Tibetan Tergar Monastery in Kathmandu, Barb heard a lot about Buddhist theories of reincarnation and the “bardo,” an intermediate state between death and rebirth that might also be related to West …
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Frozen Hell
(Partly) Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Books of the Month We continue our reading of history and society—reading books is one of the best ways to broaden your learning about everything! This week, we have two books to share: Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40, by William Trotter. It’s all too easy to th …
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Rhythms of the Brain
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month Rhythms of the Brain, by Gyorgy Buzsaki. Ever wondered about the various rhythms—alpha, theta, gamma, and more—and how they play a role in our thinking? Wonder no more, as this in-depth scientific expose walks you through why the brain’s rhythms are so important, and how th …
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Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Don’t miss Barb on June 5th in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Reliance College “Jefferson” Dinner Last week, Barb was fortunate to attend the once-every-five-years FIRE Gala in New York City. The Gala featured American rapper and social activist “Killer Mike,” who gave an extraordinary ke …
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Awaken Your Genius
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month Barb on the upcoming John Stossel Town Hall webinar for Educators being filmed in New York City Don’t miss this exciting discussion about the intersection of neuroscience and education with reporter John Stossel on Apr 19, 2023, 07:00 PM Eastern US time. Barb will kick thing …
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