A rich and wide-ranging study.
As a historian of ideas, Berlin was wide-ranging, even learned in an eccentric way, but that way was far removed from the contemporary academic model of specialised "research".
The main difference between the birds and the children, Gopnik says, is that members of the crow family "have sophisticated but specific knowledge about how physical causal relationships work in the world," whereas children "seem to have broader and more wide-ranging causal learning abilities".
They take a wide-ranging and dynamic view of learning as a process covering different contexts of activity, which provide opportunities and resources for learning.
In addition to that wide-ranging conversation, we also learn what it takes to reassemble a sound system that once lived in one of Detroit's most storied dance music venues, Club Heaven, from Dr. Carleton Gholz of the Detroit Sound Conservancy.
I'm not a Chinese speaker myself, but I talked to a number of people who are and the general consensus is that Zuckerberg's progress is impressive — in particular his vocabulary is wide-ranging given his stage of learning — but his tones need some work.
Workers of every rank are told these days that wide-ranging curiosity and continuous learning are vital to thriving in the modern economy.
"In celebrating the importance of language learning and the UK's diverse cultural heritage, the festival provided a platform for schools, universities, students, policymakers and employers from across the UK to debate and explore the wide-ranging benefits of language learning," says Nigel Vincent, vice-president of research and higher education policy at the British Academy.
FOXP2 is a transcription factor important for modulating the plasticity of neural circuits in the developing brain (Groszer et al. 2008), and it is likely that downstream targets of FOXP2 may have wide-ranging effects on language learning (Fisher & Scharff 2009), although it has not been directly implicated in SLI (Newbury et al. 2002).
Senior UN sources say Ban Ki-moon is determined to act on its wide-ranging recommendations in order to "learn lessons" and respond more effectively to major new crises, such as Syria, now confronting the international community.
