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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Aide Memoire 7

From ScienceDaily: Dyslexia: Some very smart accomplished people cannot read well.

Jonah Lehrer from Frontal Cortex: ADHD and time.

Vaughan from Mind Hacks: Men are from Earth, Women are from Earth.

From ScienceDaily: Learning by imagining: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning.

Steven Novella from Neurologica: Teaching how science works.

From ScienceDaily: CIMT may improve arm use in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy, report shows.

Michael McKinney from Leader Blog: Managers can (and should) be leaders.

From ScienceDaily: Young adults who exercise get higher IQ scores.

From ScienceDaily: Early intervention for toddlers with autism highly effective, study finds.

Respectful Insolence and Neurologica on Deepak Chopra in Deepak Chopra and his Choprawoo translated: "Skeptics, take my ill-informed speculations seriously!" and Chopra Attacks Skeptics.

ScienceDaily: Young Adults Who Exercise Get Higher IQ Scores

ScienceDaily: Early Intervention for Toddlers With Autism Highly Effective, Study Finds.

Bob Sutton: Mintzberg in the WSJ: Get Rid of Executive Bonuses.

Bob Sutton: Jeff Pfeffer on the Misguided Lust for Outside CEOs as Saviors.

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