Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-28-2008

[andrewducker]

• Believing that nurture outweighs nature makes you more likely to do well
  As before, the intervention group became more likely to subscribe to malleable beliefs as a result of the teaching, and the average maths score of that group rose, whereas the control group continued to do badly. The greatest improvement was found in the children who had started with a fixed view of their abilities and been taught to think of it as malleable: fixity is bad for performance. But above all, the sequence was clear: change the belief, you change the motivation, and that improves the grades.
  (tags: education nature nurture)
• No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in Innovative â˜Passive Housesâ™
  New homes are incredibly energy conserving. I hope they catch on.
  (tags: energy green solar design housing)

Comments

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I actually live in a passive house but it is not designed to be so and therefore lacks the vital feature of a passive heat exchange. So although I never use the radiators I do have an awful lot of condensation.

They are undoubtably going to catch on.