Perfect timing. Moments ago I turned the page on ChiChi Madu’s article: “How to Brainstorm: Group Free-For-Alls Can Stifle Creativity” in the February issue of Psychology Today. The timing is brilliant because I am in the midst of brainstorming … Continue reading →

Can we make it as good as the real thing? I’ve started working on developing online education at The King’s College, where I also teach a few courses, including one online pilot course this semester. I’ve always been a little … Continue reading →

Comment magazine has a weekly email that is pitched as “a wunderkammer” of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers’ edification and entertainment” but there are a few things missing to this point. According to wunderkammerist Gabriel Kaltemarckt … Continue reading →

  Earlier this week I stepped out for a requisite saunter to pick up the current issue of GOOD magazine: the ‘Slow’ issue. As I splayed myself across the 112 pages of all things slow: slow labs, slow food, slow … Continue reading →

  A friend linked to the endlessly fascinating “2010: Living in the Future“. The site’s creator dug out a book he’d read as a child, written in the 1970s by Geoffrey Hoyle (who, the site tells us, appears to still … Continue reading →

  In the February issue of Harper‘s there is a review of The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris. The quote that reviewer Wyatt Mason chose reflects our fear of personal financial collapse: We shuffled up the stairs toward the revolving doors … Continue reading →

  Everyone’s a rebel and it’s never been more pedantic. I get the chance to make lots of visits with people my age or just below it. Let’s charitably call us all millennials. The paradox that has emerged from these … Continue reading →

Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times film critic, wrote a sad and beautiful piece about his loss of the ability to eat and drink (as well as talk). Let me return to the original question: Isn’t it sad to be unable … Continue reading →

  Apparently, high-calorie nibblies inspire architects. This seemingly tongue-in-cheek article showed up in Fast Company and as we already have ‘communitecture’ and ‘locativism’ and other word mashups going, I couldn’t resist. The munchie food you and I so love might … Continue reading →

  I’m back in the saddle teaching introduction to international relations at a local undergrad uni and it’s spurring on a whole variety of generational questions for me. To play off an earlier post on our theory and practice of … Continue reading →