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[This is Post 5 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.” This week […]
At Grist this week, David Roberts features a deeply valuable interview with Sandra de Castro Buffington, head of the Hollywood, Health, and Society project at USC. She discusses the project’s […]
I read the ICG’s most recent report on Yemen: Defusing the Saada Time Bomb this morning, and despite my quibbles with its transliteration, I was quite impressed with the report. […]
I’m getting more requests to come speak to groups. Here are 8 items that are indispensable to me as a presenter (click on each image for a larger version)… 1. Presentation remote […]
[cross-posted atnLeaderTalk] n In my post for LeaderTalk thisnmonth, I’m going to quickly address three ideas related to video games,nschools, and learning and offer a short wrap-up at the end… […]
I recently received a text message from my friend, Wes, that asked me when I was going to get back to blogging. One of the personal projects littering my to-do […]
[I’m reviving my Blogs That Deserve a Bigger Audience (DABA) feature. If there is a blog that you think should be featured here, drop me a note.] Today the Crimson […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] October apparently was ‘Library Month’ for me. I was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota MEMO conference and did a breakout session for the Iowa Library Association […]
Because of their biochemical makeup, women are better than men are at managing risk. As a result, female equity managers yield higher returns for their clients and are better at navigating downturns.
“Autonomous cars are years from mass production, but technologists who have long dreamed of them believe that they can transform society as profoundly as the Internet has.”
I have been religiously watching the TEDTalks series, a group of videos produced by TED. Overall I’ve been mostly impressed with the speakers, very cool stuff. Here’s an EXCELLENT spoken […]
If anyone knows their way around airports, it’s Frank Luntz. The language maestro estimates he logs 300,000 miles a year and stays in 100 hotels as he jets around the […]
“Video-games players develop an enhanced sensitivity to what is going on around them and that this may help with activities such as multitasking, driving and reading small print.”
“We have entered the post-art era, Kundera declares in Encounter—’a world where art is dying because the need for art, the sensitivity and the love for it, is dying.’”
Satellite navigation…. decades before the first satellite
The sub-title to this piece is “Patient-Advocates as Harbringers of Hope in the Health Care System.” n Disclaimer: I am a Libertarian-Progressive. I generally trust markets more than I trust […]
“Science fiction never imagined Google, but it certainly imagined computers that would advise us what to do.” A Times Op-Ed on whether or not Google will determine our futures for us.
n Somewhat in the style of a treasure map, this ‘Map of Online Communities’ shows MySpace, Wikipedia, SecondLife and other user-generated phenomena now populating the internet. n The geography is […]
If the The Noguchi Museum’s 25th anniversary exhibition were an episode of Friends, it would be titled “The One Where Isamu Became an Artist.” On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi […]
On April 10, the Poynter Institute is set to release it’s latest “eye tracking” study of how readers navigate the printed and online news page. The preview of the key […]
Metropolis, Illinois, a tiny town with a grand name, is a distant echo of this area’s planned greatness
A warm welcome to students from UNC’s English 12 course.Please have fun navigating and evaluating my blog. Feel free to leave comments, suggestions, and feedback in the comments section of […]
University classes for the spring semester are in full swing, and several courses have integrated blogs and the evaluation of such into their class content. As previously posted, UNC’s English […]
Besides dampening the spirit, when a person experiences racist thoughts and feelings, stress hormones rush the body, the heart pumps harder and the blood vessels constrict.
. n . n American cities are gridded, and thus easily readable and navigable. Their Old World counterparts are older, messier and much more disorienting. That is the conventional wisdom. […]
“Aboriginal Creation myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who had wandered over [Australia] in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path — birds, animals, […]
The Point of Inquiry podcast is produced by the Center for Inquiry-Transnational and averages 60,000 listeners a week. In this week’s show, host DJ Grothe and I engage in a […]
Back in February, I chronicled the problems that the year’s first IPCC report had in achieving wider media and public attention. In response, I argued that in today’s fragmented media […]
Buzz Bissinger titled his profile of then-Mayor of Philadelphia Ed Rendell’s efforts to save his city from the brink of fiscal disaster, A Prayer for the City. Philadelphia, my native […]