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...While 10 years is a necessary minimum to achieve expertise in most fields, it doesn't guarantee success. As Anders Ericsson writes in the introduction to the 901-page Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (2006), "The number of years of experience in a domain is a poor predictor of attained performance." Ericsson, 60, is a professor at Florida State who moved to the U.S. from his native Sweden in 1976 to study with Simon, co-author of the seminal chess paper. (Simon went on to win a Nobel Prize in economics for his work on decision-making.) Today...
...rather than simply supporting him because of his political position or qualifications, the more they attempt to demonize Hillary Clinton as the anti-Obama—the calculating, deceptive anti-Christ out to sabotage Obama’s chances of becoming president. While Clinton-bashing was once solely the domain of the Right, Obama supporters have recently entered the fray with a barrage of anti-Hillary videos and blog posts...
...data,” he said. “The leadership that is required to change the ethos, the fear that happens about letting go of the data, is huge,” But when an audience member questioned the potential dangers of bringing more data into the public domain, Berners-Lee replied that it would be necessary to ensure that new technology does not violate personal privacy. “We want the technology to be the Lego for a nice world, a world we want to live in,” he said. —Staff writer...
...Despite the apparent disconnect between evolutionary biology and Middle East politics, Trivers said he thinks that Israel’s conduct falls in his domain...
...share its intellectual wealth. The University Library has taken a leading role in that endeavor. Far from reserving its resources for the privileged few, it is digitizing its special collections, opening them to everyone online, and cooperating with Google in the attempt to make books in the public domain actually available to the public, a worldwide public, which extends everywhere that people have access to the Internet. If the FAS votes in favor of the motion on February 12, Harvard will make the latest work of its scholars accessible, just as it is creating accessibility to the store of knowledge...