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http://veille.servicedoc.info/doku.php?id=profile_nilaakusithhct — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:50:07 +0000

An interesting discussion is definitely worth comment.
There’s no doubt that that you need to write more about this subject, it may
not be a taboo matter but typically people don’t talk about these issues.
To the next! Cheers!!

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By: Pawel Aleksander Fedorynski

Pawel Aleksander Fedorynski — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:01:17 +0000

I know nothing of neuroscience, but I have studied a field or two and I think you got things backwards here. Unless neuroscience is very exceptional, anyone who’s into it can relate more strongly to JS-154, blood-brain barrier etc. than to all that medieval babble. I’m not talking about people who need to cram some molecular biology for the test, but about those who actually find it interesting. Most PhD students fall in that latter category and so there’s no way they’d know more byte for byte about Game of Thrones. For an N=1 sample, my dad who is a chemistry professor often has trouble following the plot of a movie and generally likes for someone to sit next to him and remind him who is who in the show, but obviously never has any such problem with molecules.

(This answers amuchmoreexotic’s question about mnemonics: a lot of people who don’t give a shit about planets need to memorize planets, hence My Very Educated Mother, but you generally only learn complicated things when they fascinate you, and then you don’t need mnemonics.)

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By: Avantika

Avantika — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:28:09 +0000

Sure. Don’t expect it anytime soon, because we only have the vaguest outline right now.

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By: Rory O’Kane

Rory O’Kane — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:27:46 +0000

Here are some examples of educational manga I found by searching (though none of them use anthropomorphism):

Impressive learning Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) with Lucky Star

An English textbook starring Haruhi Suzumiya

Japanese in Mangaland: Learning The Basics

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By: Rory O’Kane

Rory O’Kane — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:55:20 +0000

Which is also the post that Scott’s LW comment, quoted in this blog post, was a reply to.

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By: Scott Alexander

Scott Alexander — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:15:26 +0000

Please let me know how this project goes and how I can get a copy when you’re done.

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By: Avantika

Avantika — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 12:55:42 +0000

This is something a lot of people are thinking about! In fact I’m part of a project to teach cell biology by writing a murder mystery set inside a cell, with molecules – lots of them – as characters. It presents a lot of challenges – we started out anthropomorphizing proteins, but it soon became very clear that a society set in a cell would have to have utterly bizarre social rules. Anyway, I believe it can work.

Meanwhile, we do try to make our research understandable by presenting it in story form. I occasionally open my discussions by asking people to imagine that RNA Polymerase is Henry VIII.

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By: Doug S.

Doug S. — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 10:53:12 +0000

Well… many of them kind of sucked as games. Apparently, though, someone’s carved out a niche for them in corporate training.

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By: Galuruthaz

Galuruthaz — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 14:47:55 +0000

Id suggest looking into the F.Yates “Art of Memory” and works of J. Campbell for.those interested why this works.. (:

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By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 11:42:27 +0000

I’m also reminded of The Story About Ping:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2VDKZ4X1F992Q

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