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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 May 21, 2013 

Digital Skeptic or Analog Celebrant … Which Frame Would You Choose? (part two of two)

Welcome to part two. Let me see if I can get you up to speed. In part one I talked about two frames: digital skeptic and digital celebrant. Simply, digital skeptics view the rise of the digital age with a fair bit of caution and reserve. On the other hand, digital celebrants, well, celebrate the […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 March 11, 2013 

Gorilla Encounter—A Profound Example of the Attachment Behavioral System in the Wild

You see or hear about these examples all the time—elephants, horses, dolphins, gorillas. But this YouTube example below is particularly profound in my opinion. I would suggest that this example points out why John Bowlby was so influenced by ethology (the study of animal behavior) as he developed his theory of attachment. Back in September […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 February 26, 2013 

What’s So Social About Machine Media? (2 of 2)

Welcome to part II of my two-part series designed to investigate the following overarching question: Out of all the media that have existed for thousands of years why do we frame digital machine media as being “social?” Here are two follow-up questions: Where has this “social” frame come from? Why has the social frame been […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 February 21, 2013 

What’s So Social About Machine Media? (1 of 2)

In the beginning there was “grunt media”—communication centered on a series of modulated grunts, groans, yelps, yells, screeches, coos, etc. Next came oral media—communication centered on a group of people sitting around telling stories. The history of communication media continues thus—media centered on communicating via… …clay tablets and a system of glyphs (typically about food […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 February 13, 2013 

Executive Function (EF) and Philanthropy: A Case Example

Back on February 5th, 2013, we announced that the Foundation had started the process of shifting its Mission Focus to include Executive Function Theory. A number of you emailed us to wish us well. Thanks very much for those well wishes. A few of you wished us well and then effectively asked, “What’s EF and […]

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