The Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism

Clif notes: the better you are at speaking more than one language the better your brain is at brain things.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=1

Zhong Wen

That's chinese for chinese. Goal for the week is to do some sort of mandarin studying every day this week.

Currently reading: Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac

Some of the latest additions to my reading list:

• The High Beta Rich, Frank
  
• Empire Falls, Russo
  
• Olympic Weightlifting, Everett
• All Business is Local, Jocz
• Inside Apple, Lashinsky
• Deep Economy, McKibben
• Eating Animals, Foer
• On the Beach, Shute

Some of the latest additions to my film watching list (mostly 2012 Academy Award winners or nominees):

• Happy
• Project NIM
• The Artist
• Man on Wire
• The Artist
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• The Help
• Hugo
• Midnight in Paris
• The Tree of LIfe
• Warhorse
• Rango
• A Separation
• Undefeated
• Saving Face
  

Quadcopter TED talk

You guys probably saw videos of these things flying around, here's the team that created them:

http://www.ted.com/talks/vijay_kumar_robots_that_fly_and_cooperate.html

(ricci build some)

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