After a difficult surgery, I successfully removed 4 square "Memory" cards from my wife's MacBook, I have a new piece of advice from people with small children. Put a piece of tape over your slot load drives. :) … [Read more...] about Children and Slotload DVD drives
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Chimps and Children
Psychologists have been doing some experiments with chimps and young children looking for differences in the way they solve problems. In one of the experiments, they gave chimps a clear box containing food. The scientists showed the chimp how to open the box, but included several steps that were obviously unnecessary. When the chimps were left alone with the box, they retrieved the food imitating the method they had been shown. However, the chimps eliminated the unnecessary steps. The scientists then tried the same experiment with 3 and 4 year olds. Unlike the chimps, children imitated the entire sequence of actions they had been shown, including the unnecessary steps. This is an … [Read more...] about Chimps and Children
Past Post: Chimps, Children and Productivity
There are some interesting differences between the way children and chimps mimic a task. The chimps are more productive. What tasks are you doing unproductively simple because that is how you have seen them done in the past? … [Read more...] about Past Post: Chimps, Children and Productivity