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TechWire contributing columnist Grace Ueng shares how learning to perform later in life has been made possible by having the right teachers, pursuing deliberate practice, dismissing her inner critic and instead embracing a positive mindset.

TechWire contributing columnist Grace Ueng shares how learning to perform later in life has been made possible by having the right teachers, pursuing deliberate practice, dismissing her inner critic and instead embracing a positive mindset.

Recently, the Emanuel Lasker Society and the Excelsior Verlag published the third and final volume of their huge biography of Emanuel Lasker, mathematician, philosopher, writer, and World Champion from 1894 to 1921. Richard Forster, Michael Negele and Raj Tischbierek edited the three volumes. Like its predecessors, the third sheds light on many aspects of Lasker's personality and his wide ranging intellectual interests, and it is a beautiful, carefully designed book well worth reading.

In this article, statistician Bruno Wiesend reports on a scientific controversy about a study on the "Influence of intelligence and practice on the development of skills". The author considers the results of the study to be wrong due to methodological errors. | Photo: Pixabay