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A Wet-‘N-Wild Playground Rethinks How Kids Play And Learn | Co. Design

24 Nov 2011

A Wet-‘N-Wild Playground Rethinks How Kids Play And Learn | Co. Design.   A Wet-‘N-Wild Playground Rethinks How Kids Play And Learn Sydney recently unveiled its newest, biggest, and, by all indications, funsiest public playground–a 43,000-square-foot waterlogged wonderland designed to “promote learning and experimentation through acceptable risk taking,” the designers, ASPECT Studios, say. Acceptable risk-taking? … More A Wet-‘N-Wild Playground Rethinks How Kids Play And Learn | Co. Design

Inter-Disciplinary.Net Home Page

11 Nov 2011

Inter-Disciplinary.Net Home Page. nter-Disciplinary.Net is a forum for the exchange and interaction of ideas, research and points of view that bear on a wide range of issues of concern and interest in the contemporary world. We promote and sponsor inter- and multi-disciplinary encounters by bringing people together from differing contexts, disciplines, professions, and vocations, with … More Inter-Disciplinary.Net Home Page

Epigenetics – How Grandma’s Health Affects Your Child’s

2 Nov 2011

Excerpt from Epigenetics – How Grandma’s Health Affects Your Child’s. Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance — or epigenetics, for short — doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Yet this idea that environmental factors (such as diet, lifestyle choices and behaviors, and stress) can change the health not only of the people who are exposed to them, but … More Epigenetics – How Grandma’s Health Affects Your Child’s

APS Observer – The Body of Knowledge: Understanding Embodied Cognition

1 Nov 2011

The cold shoulder. A heavy topic. A heroic white knight. We regularly use concrete, sensory-rich metaphors like these to express abstract ideas and complicated emotions. But a growing body of research is suggesting that these metaphors are more than just colorful literary devices — there may be an underlying neural basis that literally embodies these … More APS Observer – The Body of Knowledge: Understanding Embodied Cognition

Embodied Cognition (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

1 Nov 2011

Cognition is embodied when it is deeply dependent upon features of the physical body of an agent, that is, when aspects of the agent’s body beyond the brain play a significant causal or physically constitutive role in cognitive processing. In general, dominant views in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science have considered the body … More Embodied Cognition (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)