![]() Noble: There is a tendency for saying once somebody has a thinking or memory problem, or once somebody’s of an age to have a thinking and memory problem, that we can in fact reduce somebody’s risk of developing subsequent problems. It’s involving language circuits, visual-spatial circuits, kind of sensory integration circuits of how do I hold and swing and what’s the, what’s the feel of that hammer in my hand?įaith: How can we take care of our memory? What, what can we do to preserve the memory we have?ĭr. And then in another area of our brain might even know, well, what do those things do? What’s the function of that hammer and nail? Well, it’s to fasten something together, and all of those things come together along with the idea of “I want to hammer and nail something together” so that that memory, it’s not just like something is just remembered, it’s your brain is engaging multiple areas of your brain. We, in order to remember how to use that, we might think back to a project that we did some years ago that involved a hammer and a nail, or our brain might be accessing some information in part of our language centers that says that’s a hammer and that’s a nail as we pick it up. Well, let’s say for instance, I gave an example a moment ago about hammer and a nail. Can you describe to us what is going on in our brain when memory is at work?ĭr. It’s the process of putting together something, something we may have learned along the way.įaith: So we’ve learned there are lots of kinds of memories. That is the ability for us to do things like, you know, use a hammer and a nail. But by and large, we begin to think about things in kind of broader events rather than, uh, you know, finite sentences or conversations that are held.Īnd then there’s procedural memory. Maybe we can remember certain conversations if they were really important to us. ![]() You know, we have general ideas of what happened to us. So the same circuits that were involved in laying down information about that conversation you had, you know, just a half an hour ago, are involved as a first step in laying down information that stays with you for years.Īs we know, that information becomes less and less discreet over time. What was the conversation I had with my colleague a half an hour ago?” For your capacity to not just remember that it happened, but the details of that conversation.Īnd then we can think about more long-term memory, which is, you know, things that happened to us from long ago. And so that’s the circuit that begins to get involved when we think, “Okay. There is a key area in the brain called the hippocampus, which is essential for laying down new memories and getting them to last. And when we think about long-term storage, we can define that as being on the order of minutes or months or years. There is, another form of memory where we think about it being something that has to be or begins to involve long-term storage. What is it that I’m doing right now that I just was thinking about? That’s a kind of an in the moment memory, working memory. We walk into a room and we say, “Oh, gosh, what was I doing? I was coming in here for something.” My coffee cup or something like that. This is where somebody walks into a room, happens to all of us. There’s a problem with memory that many of us experience that now has a name called Doorway Memory. Sometimes we think about memory kind of being in the moment. Noble: Memory can be defined many different ways. ![]() Thanks for having me.įaith: From a cognitive standpoint, what exactly is memory?ĭr. He also breaks down memory disorders and the differences between Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.įaith: Hi Dr. He shared insights about how memory works, how it may change as we age - and how people can take care of their memory. James Noble, a neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia. So when does memory loss become a more serious issue? ![]() We’ve all experienced forgetful moments, but for some of us, they can become more common as we age. Welcome to Health Matters – your weekly dose of the latest in health and wellness from NewYork-Presbyterian. ![]()
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![]() This is a cliché, of course, but you will write more when you tell yourself that no day must pass without writing. These habits have worked for me and I want my students to use them to cultivate the practice of writing.ġ. My list isn’t in any way a presumption of expertise and is offered only as evidence of experience. I have also prepared my own list of rules for my students. Why? “It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.” On the first day of my writing class this year, I handed out xeroxed sheets of rules by Ray Bradbury, not least because he offers the valuable advice that one should write a short story each week for a whole year. But I offer my own students rules all the time. Of course, rules can never be a substitute for what a writer can learn, should learn, simply by sitting down and writing. A beginner should take them daily, like a dose of much-needed vitamins. In their simplicity and directness, I do not think the above rules can be improved upon. ![]() You may go beyond these rules after you have thoroughly understood and mastered them. It may even be getting rid of the bad language habits you picked up at the university. It may be awkward, but it’s training you in the use of language. ![]() A sentence should not have more than 10 or 12 words.Įvery day, for six months at least, practice writing in this way. Naipaul’s Rules for Beginners”:ĭo not write long sentences. I followed the rules diligently for at least a year, and my book Bombay-London-New York was a product of the writing I did during that period. Like a traveler in a new place, I asked questions, took notes, and began to arrange things in a narrative. I was discovering language as if it were a new country. The rules were a wonderful antidote to my practice of using academic jargon, and they made me conscious of my own writing habits. In the weeks that followed, I began writing a regular literary column for Tehelka, and, in those pieces, I tried to work by Naipaul’s rules. A few days later I left India and the sheet traveled with me, folded in the pages of a book that I was reading. I was told that I could take the sheet if I wanted. He had fussed over their formulation, corrected them, and then faxed back the corrections. It was explained to me that Naipaul was asked by the Tehelka reporters if he could give them some basic suggestions for improving their language. Naipaul’s Rules for Beginners.” These were rules for writing. And high above someone’s computer was a sheet of paper that said “V. There was a pen-and-ink portrait of Naipaul on the wall because he was one of the trustees. Later, when we were done, I was taken around for a tour of the place. I was visiting my parents in India at that time it was winter, and I went to the Tehelka office to talk to the editors. About a decade ago, soon after I had received tenure, Tehelka asked me to come aboard as a writer. Almost writing ‘the cat sat on the mat.’ I almost began like that.”Īnd I did that too, almost. I abandoned everything and began to write like a child at school. In the beginning I had to forget everything I had written by the age of 22. The sentence I had quoted had mattered to me, yes, and so had the book, but what had really helped was Naipaul’s telling an interviewer that in an effort to write clearly he had turned himself into a beginner: “It took a lot of work to do it. Every time I start to write, I am reminded of Naipaul’s book.īut that wasn’t the whole truth, neither about Naipaul, nor about beginnings. ![]() The ambition and the anxiety of the beginner is there at the beginning of each book. It has lasted through the twenty years of my writing life. Its very first sentence established in my mind the idea of writing as an opening in time or a beginning: that sentence conveyed to me, with its movement and rhythm, a history of repeated striving, and of things coming together, at last, in the achievement of the printed word: “It is now nearly thirty years since, in a bbc room in London, on an old bbc typewriter, and on smooth, ‘non-rustle’ bbc script paper, I wrote the first sentence of my first publishable book.” This first sentence-about a first sentence-created an echo in my head. This was one of the first literary autobiographies that I read. The library then purchased a copy, which was duly displayed in one of its rooms, with a statement I had written about the book: When I was promoted to the rank of professor, the library at the university where I was then employed asked me to send them the name of a book that had been useful to me in my career. A mix of memoir, reportage, and criticism, these essays explore how Kumar, a Professor of English at Vassar College, practices being a ‘writer in the world.’ The following is from Amitava Kumar’s essay collection Lunch with a Bigot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Homeworld, Gearbox & the Gearbox Software logos are registered trademarks, and the Homeworld logo is a trademark, all used courtesy of Gearbox Software, LLC. Published and distributed by Gearbox Software. Access to Homeworld Remastered GOG Multiplayer: play Homeworld races against Homeworld 2 races with up to eight players on 23 maps, plus brand new game modes.Bonus archival versions of Homeworld Classic and Homeworld 2 classic, preserving the purest form of the original releases with compatibility for modern operating systems.Cinematic scenes recreated in beautiful high fidelity by original artists.New audio mix using original source effects and music. ![]()
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By the time the waste gases leave the stove to outside through the flue, they are therefore back to a normal gas output temperature, having imparted all of the extra heat to the room. Rather than immediately releasing these hot waste gases, they trap them within the box so that they can efficiently transfer their heat to the room through the stove’s metal casing. The higher temperatures and additional drawn in Oxygen allow the smoke and wood gas to combust, releasing more energy (as heat) and destroying some harmful by-products of typical wood combustion such as carbon monoxide and smoke particulates. The Eco Rocket Stove contains two combustion chambers the first is fed with wood, and the by-products from this wood burning (smoke and wood gas) naturally flow to the second chamber, which is vertically insulated and at a much higher temperature (700 – 1000 ☌). ![]() The Engineering for Change Solutions Library provides examples of rocket stoves that can compete with the clean-burning stove aspect of the Himalayan Rocket Stove but will not provide space heating. All of these types of heaters are likely to be less suitable for the target consumers of the Himalayan Rocket Stove, who would often collect firewood themselves to avoid any fuel cost, and also do not allow for cooking. Geothermal space heaters have also been proposed for the same target region. 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![]() The trouble is, all three processes are underway at the same time. The organisation becomes aimless and inert. Employees become detached and disengaged. Inefficiencies and duplications creep in. People focus more on avoiding mistakes and securing their own positions than worrying about what customers care about. This may sound like gobbledegook to some readers, so let me restate the point in simple language: as organisations grow larger, they become insular and complacent. And if this is the case, the second law of thermodynamics comes into effect, namely that a closed system will gradually move towards a state of maximum disorder (i.e. ![]() In fact, many large companies I know are actually pretty closed to outside influences. But the reality is that most companies are only semi-open. The disciples of self-organising often note that companies are “open systems” that exchange resources with the outside world, and this external source of energy is what helps to renew and refresh them. Finally, there is an entropic process – the gradual trending of an organisational system towards disorder. The role of the leader is therefore to foster “emergent” order among employees without falling into the trap of over-engineering it.ģ. Under the right conditions, it seems, individual employees will come together to create effective coordinated action. This has become very popular in the field of management, in large part because it draws on insights from the world of nature, such as the seemingly-spontaneous order that is exhibited by migrating geese and ant colonies. There is an emergent process – a bottom-up form of spontaneous interaction between well-intentioned individuals, also known as self-organising. There is a design process –the allocation of roles and responsibilities through some sort of top-down master plan. I have been puzzling over complexity in organisations for a while now, and I reckon there are three processes underway in organisations that collectively determine the level of actual complexity as experienced by people in the organisation.ġ. ![]() If you try to manage complexity with an engineer’s mindset, you aren’t going to get it quite right. ![]() But organisations are also social systems where people act and interact in somewhat unpredictable ways. To some extent, organisations are indeed engineered systems –we have boxes and arrows, and accountabilities and KPIs. Unfortunately, organisational complexity is, in fact, more complex than that. It assumes that Jamie Dimon was the architect of JP Morgan’s complexity, and that he, by the same token, can undo that complexity through some sort of re-engineering process. I have written about this elsewhere.īut perhaps the bigger problem is this advice is all offered with the mentality of an architect or engineer. One is that simplification often ends up reducing the costs and benefits of complexity, so it has to be done judiciously. But this advice has a couple of problems. Much of the advice out there is about simplifying things – delayering, decentralising, streamlining product lines, creating stronger processes for ensuring alignment, and so on. So what is a leader to do when faced with a highly complex organisation and a nagging concern that the creeping costs of complexity are starting to outweigh the benefits? ![]() These forms of “unintended” complexity manifest themselves in many ways – from inefficient systems and unclear accountabilities, to alienated and confused employees. Airbus has a complex process for managing the thousands of suppliers who contribute to the manufacturing of the A380.īut complexity has a dark side as well, and companies like JP Morgan, IBM and Airbus often find themselves struggling to avoid the negative side-effects of their complex structures. IBM has a multi-dimensions matrix structure so that it can provide coordinated services to its clients. Companies are complex by design because it allows them to do difficult things. And it is also pretty obvious that their complexity is a double-edged sword. It goes without saying that big companies are complex. JP Morgan has been getting most of the headlines, but many other banks are also investigation, and companies from other sectors, from Siemens to GSK to Sony, are all under fire. 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Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 27 July 2023 Yet blue-collar industries such as restaurants and retail may have the most to gain since they’ve been plagued by the most severe labor crunches, Pollak says. stockpiles of cluster munitions to Ukrainian artillerymen has eased an ammunition crunch that otherwise might have shortened the counter-offensive. ![]() Price and Hannah Fingerhut,, 28 July 2023 And President Joe Biden’s decision to open the vast U.S. Noun DeSantis’ cash crunch seems to be driving the campaign to rely even more on the efforts of the super PAC Never Back Down to take up the work typically done by campaign staff. Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023 Predictive policing tools, which crunch data to forecast who will commit crimes, is also out. Miller, Journal Sentinel, After crunching the data, the scientists concluded that the planet lacked the most common planetary gases: carbon dioxide, methane and hydrogen. 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