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Why are Scary Movies so Much Fun?

Learningtogo

If you study the latest results of the Chapman University Survey of Fears, you’ll see that topping the list are man-made disasters, technology, government, environment, personal future, natural disaster and crime. If you review the list of the top-grossing movies of all time, you’ll see a similar list.

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Brain and neuroscience: test your knowledge!

KnowledgeOne

Do you know the characteristics of the brain at different life stages? Do you know how stress affects the brain and how to help the brain to relax? Find out more: Brain activity in numbers. A) The brain retains the ability to evolve and adapt throughout life. Do you have any idea how many thoughts we have in a day?

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Happy Halloween! Why do we love to scare ourselves?

Learningtogo

If you study the latest results of the Chapman University Survey of Fears, you’ll see that topping the list are man-made disasters, technology, government, environment, personal future, natural disaster and crime. If you review the list of the top-grossing movies of all time, you’ll see a similar list.

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Accessorize your brain

Clark Quinn

Web technologies increasingly underpin the opportunities to develop on platforms, making the technical skills required quite accessible. You can follow interests in popular media, including music, movies, television, books, comics, and more. The limits are no longer the technology, the limits are between our ears.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | April 9, 2020

Mike Taylor

Lisa Genova explains that a healthy brain quickly forgets most of what passes into conscious awareness (and how that is a good thing). Dig into this round up of 145 unique companies and 12 categories of no-code goodness. A Neuroscientist’s Poignant Study of How We Forget Most Things in Life. You can send them here to sign up. Want more?

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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

He mentions that he loves movies and often uses movie quotes in songs. I’m not saying it’s the end-all, be-all for LMS but it may just engage a few more learners that would normally have shut the training, or their brains, off. During the performance Kanye starts freestyling about how he creates lyrics.

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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

He mentions that he loves movies and often uses movie quotes in songs. I’m not saying it’s the end-all, be-all for LMS but it may just engage a few more learners that would normally have shut the training, or their brains, off. During the performance Kanye starts freestyling about how he creates lyrics.