PURPOSEFUL RESEARCH!
EVERYONE BEGINS by learning about artificial intelligence.
- What is AI? http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/pages/reference%20articles/what%20is%20ai.html
- What is a Neural Network? http://www.explainthatstuff.com/introduction-to-neural-networks.html
- Dreams and Electric Sheep http://www.popsci.com/these-are-what-google-artificial-intelligences-dreams-look#page-4
- What Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Actually Do https://lifehacker.com/what-neural-networks-artificial-intelligence-and-mach-1789259060
- Humans Need Not Apply (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
- Check out MIT: https://www.csail.mit.edu/
- And The Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/articles/its-time-to-take-artificial-intelligence-seriously-1408922644
Pushing PHYSICAL LIMITS
- What are human physical limits? http://www.popsci.com/article/science/pushing-limits-human-body
- Kacy Catanzaro of American Ninja Warrior lore. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/kacy-catanzaro-interview
- Aron Ralston, “Between a Rock and the Hardest ” http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/outdoor-skills/survival/Aron-Ralston—Between-a-Rock-and-the-Hardest-Place.html
- Parkour and Fear http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/20/sport/brain-training-push-performance/
- Free Divers!
Pushing EMOTIONAL LIMITS
- When fear makes us superhuman https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extreme-fear-superhuman/
- Treating the trauma of young Syrian refugees https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/health/treating-the-trauma-of-young-syrian-refugees.html?_r=0
- “The Most Dangerous Game.” http://www.dukeofdefinition.com/dangerous_game.pdf
- A few pieces on Ferguson from NPR
- http://www.npr.org/2014/08/23/342733988/generation-gap-divides-local-opinion-on-ferguson-protests
- http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/08/16/340912893/code-switch-roundup-on-race-policing-and-ferguson
- http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/08/15/340394980/helping-students-make-sense-of-a-young-black-mans-death-in-missouri
- http://janeewoods.com/2014/08/14/becoming-a-white-ally-to-black-people-in-the-aftermath-of-the-michael-brown-murder/
Pushing INTELLECTUAL LIMITS
- Thoughts, Abilities, and Limits https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-thoughts-can-release-abilities-beyond-normal-limits/
- Is Human Intelligence Rising? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/05/human-intelligence-improv_n_6083726.html
- “Reaching My Autistic Son through Disney” https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/magazine/reaching-my-autistic-son-through-disney.html
- Alexa Meade: Your Body is My Canvas http://www.ted.com/talks/alexa_meade