How adult learners differ from younger learners theemotionallearner.com/2024/05/28/cha…

What we get wrong about learning theemotionallearner.com/2024/06/06/wha…

Wrote this a while back on the psychological benefits of reading poetry marcxsmith.medium.com/why-we-should-…

Prior learning certainly has a positive impact on current learning, at least much of the time. At other times, it might hinder it. We can think of these as positive and negative mediators of prior learning. theemotionallearner.com/2024/12/30/whe…

Uniformed right wing Americans making assumptions about UK policy while child marriage remains legal in 37 US states. theguardian.com/society/articl…

Child marriage is legal is 37 US states. Girls as young as 10 are married off to older men. “Child marriage can be seen as a workaround for child rape,” said Fraidy Reiss, founder of Unchained at Last. theguardian.com/society/articl…

Child marriage is legal in 37 US states. Girls as young as 10 are married off to older men. “Child marriage can be seen as a workaround for child rape,” said Fraidy Reiss, founder of Unchained at Last. theguardian.com/society/articl…

The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful.

TB in Kansas: largest outbreak in history independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

Brain Burps and Learning Curves... why earworms hijack your internal playlist and how to get rid of them. #psychology #Neuroscience brainburps.substack.com/p/hooked-on-a-…

This wildly misleading tweet, and the mostly hateful replies, is like entering an alternate version of reality. If anybody is interested in the truth behind this claim, and what that Swedish poll actually asked, I'll go through it. Probably banging my head against a wall. 😂

Memory likes to snack, not gorge. The unfortunate truth about bing-watching your favourite show brainburps.substack.com/p/the-unfortun…

No! Half of Gen Z don't support a dictatorship! theconversation.com/only-6-of-gen-…

I swear this platform is now 90% MAGA bots.

It is likely effects centre on the hippocampus, the brain structure important for spatial navigation and memory formation, rather than acting across the entire brain. sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n…

What can cognitive load theory tell us about the impact of anxiety on learning? theemotionallearner.com/2025/04/30/anx…

West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset | Antiquity bit.ly/45yxuML