Category Archives: Others’
#signingoff
This experiment involves signing off of all social media sites like it’s Lent and I have self control. It is Thursday of week one, and since Monday I have: Taken zero cat pictures Eaten five undocumented meals (two were foreign but non-violent, … Continue reading
Sentential Prosody Study in Progress
This is what iambic pentameter looks like through speech science measures. Research report coming. Stay tuned!
Aurora: The City is Yours
for Danielle on her 31st I read or dreamt somewhere that friendship is an honor set upon you—that deep part of life you experience expansively, a moral extension that creates the value of living well. Perhaps I made it up, … Continue reading
Science Friday on Monday: Promoting Boredom
This seems like the kind of boredom worth promoting. http://www.wnyc.org/series/bored-and-brilliant/
Body, Language, Illustrations, & Secrets
Thinking on Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man, this came to mind: “And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete … Continue reading
Poetics of Obligation
Poetics of Obligation. Andy Amato, PhD
Psyche & the Value of Liberal Arts Education
Author: Andy Amato, PhD The ancient Greek soul (psyche) seems to find its greatest powers in the ability to be fascinated or awed, an insatiable appetite for all things beautiful, and a habituated talent for apprehending details and vividly recounting them. … Continue reading
Bridging the Two Cultures: Arts and humanities can learn a lot from understanding basic scientific concepts.
Bridging the Two Cultures: Arts and humanities can learn a lot from understanding basic scientific concepts. An article by a friend of mine that really hits the nail on the head. This is worth a read; check it out.
Changing Education Paradigms
RSA Animate of Sir Ken Robbinson’s TEDTalk “Changing Paradigms” This may be one of the most valuable accounts of the existing flaws in American pedagogy and how we can resolve some of these problems from the bottom up, if administrators … Continue reading
Inside the Box : People don’t actually like creativity.
Inside the Box : People don’t actually like creativity. Not a surprise to creative individuals: mass man doesn’t really like “creativity,” no matter how much people sling the word around.
Hyperbole and a Half
Hyperbole and a Half One of my favorite things, even without any brown paper packages tied up with strings.
A Note Regarding Ethics
A Note Regarding Ethics.
Reading Heidegger and Shakespeare Toward a Poetic God
Reading Heidegger and Shakespeare Toward a Poetic God.
The Poet's Glass 
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