by htstein | Sep 25, 2020 | Strategies
Regular and strenuous physical activity does more than just the body good. Researchers at the University of Geneva have examined how intensive cycling affects our ability to learn and remember in a recent study published in Scientific Reports. The different analyses...
by htstein | Jul 30, 2020 | Strategies
The tools we use affect how we process and perceive the world. Technology can be wonderful. Digital media makes learning resources more accessible, communication faster, and typesetting so much easier. All its positives, however, do not mean there is an opportunity...
by htstein | Jun 30, 2020 | Strategies
Learning new languages develops neural pathways in the brain. Young, old, middle-aged — everyone can benefit both professionally and personally from the challenge of communicating in a new tongue. “Children sometimes seem to learn effortlessly, but that’s...
by htstein | Nov 18, 2019 | Strategies, Uncategorized
Losing hard work to a technical malfunction is painful. Permanently misplacing the fruits of your labour among years (or decades) of backups is excruciating. The easiest way to ensure that both you and your team can always locate work is a consistent system of...
by htstein | Jun 21, 2019 | Strategies
June 21st is Bring Your Dog to Work Day, so it seems an appropriate opportunity to introduce an unpaid yet never under-appreciated member of my team: Mac-A-Roni, creative director. I adopted Mac in 2013 while still completing my doctoral thesis in Baltimore, MD. He...
by htstein | Jul 21, 2017 | Strategies
A former colleague of mine at JHU, whose work and career as a curator at the Smithsonian I have been following avidly, was recently interviewed on Gridium about her research on “human factors engineering.” Dr. Karafantis explains in detail how this differs...