04.09.07
Weekly Reading Wrapup
This article talks about how a gene can activate the liver to repair itself.
This article abcnews talks about how to complain and win at it. It talks about how to complain about cell phones, airlines, and credit cards.
Bounds said that late fees are one of the easiest fees to waive, and consumers should always try to get rid of them.
“They’ll often take it off your bill if you just call and ask politely: ‘I was on vacation, I’m a good customer,’” Bounds said. “This has a good chance of working if you really are a good, reliable customer. This isn’t going to work if you do often pay your bill late. Just as with airlines, the better a customer you are, the more likely they’ll try to satisfy you.”
This article talks about how most teaching does not take into account the way we learn:
“Problem-solving places a great demand on working memory, so teachers are better off giving students solved problems so they have the learning to take home,†he said. “The reason is that the cognitive processes involved in learning and solving problems are different, so we need to cater to the way the brain works.”
“Everything we are aware of goes through working memory, which has a limited capacity of only three to four items of information that can be held for only three to four seconds without rehearsal,†he said. “Almost all information goes after 20 seconds, unless there is rehearsal.â€
On the list of bad learning methods is poor powerpoint presentations where the speaker regurgitates everything on the slide.