JINGSONG ZHAO,1 PATRICIA J. SIME,2 PABLO BRINGAS, JR.,1 JACK GAULDIE,2 AND DAVID WARBURTON1 1Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, and Cell and Developmental Biology Program, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Research Institute, University of Southern California Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90033; and 2Molecular Virology and...

N. Dori, H. Behar, H. Brot, and Y. Louzoun 4, ∗ Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Department of Biology, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5020 Boston Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA Center for Polymer Studies and Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan Univ...

Submitters: George L. Catignani, Department of Food Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650 John G. Bieri, Nutritional Biochemistry Section, Laboratory of Nutrition and Endocrinology, National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20014 Evaluators: William J. Driskell and Mark M. Bashor, NutriLional Biochemistry Branch, Clinical Chemistry D...

A key to understanding why School is what it is lies in recognizing a systematic tendency to deform ideas in specific ways in order to make them fit into a pedagogical framework. One of these deformations is described here as " disempowering ideas. " The insight leads to a new direction for innovation in education: re-empowering the disempowered ideas. Doing so is not easy: it needs a new epist...