overstimulated

Jul 22

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…

Jul 20

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…

Jul 18

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…

Jul 17

Kirsty Karkow's haiku for Thursday Jul 16, 2009 -

honeymoon
we wade into the current
of a great river

"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

Paul D Miller on Haiku Trends -

Jul 08

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.

Stuff we can’t even buy back
…

Jul 04

volunteers<br>the blue spruce alight<br>from the fire<br> -

volunteers
the blue spruce alight
from the fire

Jun 26

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…

“If You Can Do the Bart, You’re Bad Like Michael Jackson” -

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