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		<title>Teaching kids</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conference submission season is over, took very long time to post. Hope to do better. Sugata Mitra&#8217;s &#8220;Hole in a wall&#8221; experiment with Indian kids, interesting video. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html Guess a child&#8217;s curiosity is a better motivator of learning than all other things we have in school. A cool gadget, access to kids .. half the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randdthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3158467&amp;post=22&amp;subd=randdthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A pill of 1000 nanobots for you &#8211; Rx</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you had heard/seen articles that discuss the distant future of medicine &#8211; you would have heard of these tiny robots that get into your system, detect the problem and rectify the problem. I always thought they would be something like the transformers that would transform themselves into different things depending on where they are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randdthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3158467&amp;post=20&amp;subd=randdthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tools to teach kids.. With all the intensity and brilliance he is known for, Alan Kay gives TEDsters a lesson in lessons. Kay has spent years envisioning better techniques for teaching kids. In this talk, after reminding us that &#8220;the world is not what it seems,&#8221; he shows us how good programming can sharpen our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randdthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3158467&amp;post=19&amp;subd=randdthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book recommendations &#8211; 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Origins of Neuroscience &#8211; A history of explorations into Brain Function It is available online.. Fascinating book on how we have come to know the brain as we see it now(Not really now..) I don&#8217;t know how long will it available for free(Thanks to Michael for the pointer).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randdthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3158467&amp;post=18&amp;subd=randdthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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