Some of the things we need to do to really make school a more emotionally addictive place.
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You don’t want to be so modest that you don’t’ do anything, and just sit there like a puddle, but when you do things, you constantly want to be checking for your own biases.
That thing which we call culture, which is sort of the zeitgeist, the feel of an atmosphere is really hard to count and measure, and very hard to put into numbers. And yet it tends to be the most important thing.
To empower the organization you need to take out layers, shift budget controls, do things that are very visible inside the organization and a real statement about how we’ll innovate in the future versus how we have innovated in the past.
Not by a long shot: In a sampling of 3.9 million Facebook users, 71 percent self-censored new posts or comments. Also, men were more likely to self-censor, especially if they had a lot of male friends.
Every teacher is obligated to devote teaching time to direct test prep.
Wireless companies are offering their customers’ location data to companies that plan to use it for purposes ranging from city planning to market research.
It’s very rare in a contemporary art exhibition to encounter something as powerful as a great piece of Aztec sculpture or a great painting by Picasso because I think we live in a world of image overload.
That legalization of or especially creating a constitutional right to same-sex marriage will lead to a constitutional right to polygamy is a favorite “scare tactic” of social conservatives. But Slate‘s Jillian Keenan argues, […]
You could argue that with social media, the truth is now what we all agree it is.
Now that the nonprofit service that administers the high school equivalency exam has partnered with for-profit Pearson Vue Testing to create a pricier computer-only test, 40 states are looking for alternatives.
There’s a tendency, particularly when looking at brain function, to be over-awed by the brain and, this is understandable.
Our human existence is wonderfully complicated and our culture is wonderfully complicated by pastimes and ideas and information that are entirely divorced from the evolutionary concerns of getting our genes into the next generation.
We clever humans have figured out how to artificially activate our pleasure circuits.
Can the study of art history stop looking like ancient history itself? Can it transcend the old approaches and embrace the digital world? As digitized as art history has become […]
We are currently in the midst of one the biggest software and hardware revolutions we’ve ever witnessed. With processing power, storage, and bandwidth increasing exponentially, smart phones and smart tablets […]
1. Nicholas Thompson writes at The New Yorker: There’s something particularly devastating about an attack on a marathon. It’s an epic event in which men and women appear almost superhuman. […]
So how terrorized will we be this time? Maybe terrorized is too strong a word. But how much more worried will we be, how much more uneasy, how much […]
Marlon Brando said one of the best things that I’ve heard about actors. He said, “An actor is a guy who if you ain’t talking about him he ain’t listening” […]
Unfortunately, it’s not because governments are getting along with each other: Deep cuts in American and European spending were balanced out by spending increases in China and Russia.
So claims a new study that asked parents from different countries to describe their children and what they considered the “right way” to rear them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, American parenting styles stand apart.
The robot band cannot replicate the punk attitude of the Ramones or the soulfulness of B.B. King. Yet.
And the parents of children who attend the K-8 school, located in the Ozarks, are mostly happy about it, especially since guns are considered a normal part of life.
The language is odd, but Shakespeare’s insights are really universal.
Success is not about meeting someone else’s definition, but reaching your potential by defining success in your own terms.
My father worked God knows how many jobs so I could be an artist.
Choking is honorable failure and panicking is dishonorable failure. It’s important to maintain a line between those two things.
There’s a limit to what the human body can do and how much it can achieve.
There are certain traits that we don’t pay much attention to, but which actually do explain success. So, for example, one of them you would call mind sight, which is […]
