Designing for Creativity
Over at Mind Matters, we’ve just posted a very interesting article on creativity and distance, or why thinking something is farther away makes us more likely to solve difficult problems that…
Meet the Torturers—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
One of the most striking things about this report is the extent to which the entire torture process was driven by healthcare professionals. The account makes clear that contract psychologists…
Sarah Palin, anti-intellectualism, and the plight of the liberal arts
Shared by Kurt
Petrilli hits the mark.
I have a piece by that title in today’s Education Gadfly. I argue that the Republican Party can hardly be the standard-bearer for a rigorous liberal…
"a cup of coffee" by Liam Wilkinson, UK
a cup of coffee
after Sunday service
you’ve always
put your faith in
caffeine and Christ
Kirsty Karkow's haiku for Thursday Jul 16, 2009
honeymoon
we wade into the current
of a great river
Paul D Miller on Haiku Trends
We were able to speak with Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) about his thoughts of haiku in general and what he’s most looking forward to at this conference in particular.
H09: What trends and…
in columbia
In Columbia Tennessee
last night at a certain point
my mother-in-law’s
neighbors stopped launching
fireworks and just threw
them up in the air
by their tails.
![[Photo]](http://slowreads.com/Images/3PictureFireworks4.jpg)
Stuff we can’t even buy back
…
volunteers<br>the blue spruce alight<br>from the fire<br>
volunteers
the blue spruce alight
from the fire
“If You Can Do the Bart, You’re Bad Like Michael Jackson”
Theory of progress
A theory of linear succession or progress has been the premise of Western philosophy of history from the beginning of the Christian era and on through today. In the earlier form, taken from biblical…
