Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Media Appearance on Yemen: Not Me

Check out Charles Schmitz, professor of Geography at Towson State and President of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies, on Democracy Now.

Charles is a good friend and while we sometimes disagree, he is someone whose opinion should be carefully cosidered.

Thinking

“Give a f***, actually”: The surprising benefits of being grateful for things you dislike

Radical Emotional Acceptance calls on you to celebrate all of life’s emotions — even the negative ones.

Thinking

Visual thinking: How to understand the inner lives of animals

Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.

Strange Maps

The world’s longest straight line connects Portugal to China

It’s nearly 20,000 miles long.

The Well

This is what the fourth dimension looks like

Left–Right, Back–Forth, Up–Down. What’s the fourth dimension?

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Brian Greene

The Past

How the death of alchemy gave birth to modern science

Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.

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Video from Yemen Confrence

A couple of weeks ago, I was part of a panel on Yemen hosted by the National Council on US-Arab Relations.The video for that event is now on-line and available.