For those of you who haven't seen "Amadeus," this is the full clip of Salieri looking at Mozart's sheet music that the gif is from.

The "First Law of Behavioral Genetics" states that all traits are at least partially heritable. But Emily Willoughby and her colleagues found an exception to the Law: beliefs about free will and determinism! Beliefs about fatalism and unpredictability had low heritability (in the

Some behaviors are more important than others to focus on first. A posture of attention. Walking behaviors in the hallway. Lining up. Packing up. Sitting on the carpet. Participation norms. What people get wrong is you can’t just describe them. You have to teach them explicitly.

Popular mechanisms visualized [🎞️ magic.of.creativity]

Ooit mijn eerste cinema-ervaring. Pure nostalgie! youtube.com/watch?v=t4XZl4…

Nature research paper: SLC45A4 is a pain gene encoding a neuronal polyamine transporter go.nature.com/4lI8GId

Energiekosten anno 2025

Six years ago, my daughter walked to school on her own for the first time (age 9). It was the start of a flowering of independence. My eternal thanks to Lenore Skenazy, who inspired me to let her do it. She wrote about the decision parents face, here: letgrow.org/jonathan-haidt…

Het zal wel boomer zijn, maar ik snap de heisa rond die harde knip eigenlijk niet. In het oude systeem met een jaarlijkse deliberatie was er een veel "harder" systeem. ‘Onderwijs moet uitdagen, maar ook begeleiden: tijd om de harde knip te verzachten’ knack.be/nieuws/belgie/…

"88 percent of the students [at NWU & U Mich) said they pretended to be more progressive than they are in order to succeed academically or socially." Such preference falsification (caused by fear of punishment for honesty) can lead to "pluralistic ignorance" or a "spiral of

[BIRTHDAY] French pianist and composer Claude Debussy was born on this day in 1862! Celebrate his legacy with the one and only @MjPires who performs his luscious Arabesque No. 1 at the Fondation Singer-Polignac. bit.ly/3IDLwor

This is the most detailed view of a human brain to date. A team of researchers used electron microscopy (EM) to image a cubic millimeter-sized piece of human brain tissue at high resolution and this is a single neuron with 5,600 of the nerve fibers that connect to it.

John Denver is a great musician and lyricist. But seeing Itzhak Perlman play bluegrass fills my heart with joy!

The Paradox of Memory: Why Forgetting Makes Learning Possible. ⬇️🧵

This article discusses the differences between special ed researchers & general math ed researchers. ⚠️ Note: There wouldn’t be as many kids labeled w/ math disabilities if they were taught using explicit, evidence-based instruction from the start! edweek.org/teaching-learn…

"Eye of the Tiger" played on a hammer dulcimer [📹 Kellerheims]

For the umpteenth time and for the umpteenth reason, handwriting is better than typing. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Been reading a lot about predictive processing and I think it's almost certainly going to be the next frontier of learning science and instructional design, particularly with the emergence of LLMs. One of the best voices on this from an education perspective is Adam Wray and

While all social science disciplines are politically skewed, the leftist tilt is particularly extreme in #sociology. My article in Theory and Society (Springer Nature) shows that this issue is related to methodological stagnation. 1/4