🙋‍♂️ A bunch of links for the Holidays - Of bits and bytes for December 26, 2023

Internet Travels

Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week

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Apps

• Clickbait Remover for Youtube – Chrome Web Store

Pedagogy

• Favorite Children’s Books of 2023 – The Marginalian
• The human brain’s energy puzzle: Unveiling the high costs of thinking
• Daydreaming Could Serve a Vital Purpose We Never Knew About : ScienceAlert
• Why Do We Dream? Maybe to Ensure We Can Literally ‘See’ the World upon Awakening | Scientific American
• Daydream believer: why your brain is wired to wander
• The Secret Lives of Numbers — a book to make you love maths
• Extinguishing students’ curiosity in learning

Technology

• New Studies Suggest That Cellphones Make Students Learn Less & Make Them Feel Worse Mentally. Is That True &, If So, What Do We Do?
• OpenAI Releases Useful Six-Step Prompt Engineering Guide
• The Secret Father of Modern Computing
• Reading print improves comprehension far more than looking at digital text, say researchers | Books | The Guardian
• Email Is Decreasing in Importance in the Workplace, Study Says
• Pew: Many teens use social media “almost constantly”
• Channel 1 AI – Personalized Global News Network
• Google starts to add Tracking Protection to Chrome, turning off third-party cookies | ZDNET

Pop Culture

• Opinion | American Students Outperformed Much of the World During the Pandemic – The New York Times h/t – https://archive.is/XYLN2
• Subtract – “We pile on “to-dos” but don’t consider “stop-doings.” We create incentives for good behavior, but don’t get rid of obstacles to it. We collect new-and-improved ideas, but don’t prune the outdated ones.”
• The Number Five Is Nothing Like the Number Four h/t – https://archive.is/MEBNY – Research: Distinct neuronal representation of small and large numbers in the human medial temporal lobe | Nature Human Behaviour

Potpourri

• Mathematicians Crack a Century-Old Problem That’s Perfect For Your Next Party : ScienceAlert
• Goodreads has too much power for its moderation to be this bad – Polygon
• ‘It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? | Books | The Guardian
• Update Your Browser | Facebook
• New ideas are out there—we just need to look for them

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