overstimulated

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…

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…

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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…

honeymoon
we wade into the current
of a great river

a cup of coffee
after Sunday service
you’ve always
put your faith in
caffeine and Christ

volunteers
the blue spruce alight
from the fire

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…

He has strangely colored skin, a legendarily dysfunctional family, and is perpetually 10 years old. No wonder Michael Jackson identified with Bart Simpson. On a DVD commentary track that’s part of