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University of California Television (UCTV) is making a host of videos available on its website during this period of social distancing. Among them, with descriptions courtesy of UCTV (text written by UCTV staff):
“How We Learn Vs. How We Think We Learn”: There are negative associations with the word “forget,” and we often envision ourselves as striving not to forget things. But according to Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, forgetting is actually an important component of learning and memory. In his words, “Forgetting, rather than undoing learning, enables learning and focuses remembering.” Bjork maintains that humans misunderstand our system of remembering and forgetting as it relates to learning. Consequently, the decisions we make about managing our own learning are not optimal. Additionally, we grapple with societal assumptions and attitudes that actually reinforce behaviors counterproductiv
Yves here. Get a cup of coffee. This is another meaty talk with Michael Hudson, this time focusing on his classic Super Imperialism. Hudson has an updated and expanded version set to go to print soon.
Oscar Brisset:
Welcome to the first event of the Oxford Economics Society for this academic year. I’m Oscar, the Co-President of our society, and I’m glad to welcome you back for another term of exciting discussions. Although we were hoping last term to be back in-person by January, due to the worsening Covid-19 situation in the UK our events this term are going to remain online, so that everyone at home can still participate.
Event Description
We will examine Arctic and Antarctic animals, habitats, survival skills and special anatomies that allow polar bears, arctic foxes, penguins, musk oxen and many more, to survive and to thrive in extreme conditions. Their intriguing capabilities will be shown through a variety of videos.
Convener: Pat has convened courses on climate change, microbes, history and great orchestras. She is a Distinguished Research Professor of Biological Sciences, and a lover of travel and animals. She has visited both poles and is fascinated by the wildlife.
Additionally, this class runs January 27, February 3 and February 10, 2021.
Event presented by:
p20network@niu.edu
Tigers Stalk, Storms Rage, but Poverty Forces Indians Deeper Into the Sundarbans 15/01/2021
Men on a boat row past mangrove trees encircling Satjelia island in the Sundarbans, December 15, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Anushree Fadnavis.
Satjelia, West Bengal: On a warm November afternoon, Parul Haldar balanced precariously on the bow of a small wooden dinghy, pulling in a long net flecked with fish from the swirling brown river.
Just behind her loomed the dense forest of the Sundarbans, where some 10,000 square km of tidal mangroves straddle India’s northeastern coastline and western Bangladesh and open into the Bay of Bengal.
Four years ago, her husband disappeared on a fishing trip deep inside the forest. Two fishermen with him saw his body being dragged into the undergrowth – one of a rising number of humans killed by tigers as they venture into the wild.