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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 January 31, 2012 

Notes on Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows”

As I read through Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, I took a few notes centered on where the information Carr presents dovetails with the information John Bowlby presents in his trilogy on attachment theory. Here are my notes. The page numbers refer to pages in The Shallows.

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 September 22, 2011 

The “Bowlby Less Traveled” Journey Comes to an End

On September 20th, 2011, the FHL Foundation held its annual meeting for the 2011–2012 fiscal year (which ends July 31st of each year). After careful deliberation and consideration, the board and staff decided to de-emphasize its focus on Bowlbian attachment theory as a theory of social change. The reasons for this decision are complex and […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 April 27, 2011 

Announcing “Bowlby’s Battle for Round Earth”

My apologies. I wasn’t able to write a post for last week. I do have an excuse though. I’ve decided to take the plunge and write a self publish book. I was working on this new project all last week and lost track of time. Actually, the majority of the book is already written. The […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 September 7, 2010 

UPDATE – Norbert Wiener Also Bridged Mechanical and Biological Worlds

In my August 10th, 2010, post, I wrote the following (with my addition in brackets): In this section of vol. I [of Bowlby’s trilogy on attachment theory at about page 41], Bowlby deftly moves back and forth between mechanical systems and mechanical forms of linking and integrating (often referred to as cybernetics) and biological forms of […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 September 2, 2010 

UPDATE – TiVo as Cybernetics — QUICK LOOK – The Anxiety of Katrina

I have opened up two new categories that will hold short blog posts: updates and “quick look.” Updates is a category that I hope is self-explanatory—blog posts updating you on information that has appeared in an earlier post. I’ll try to make updates as “stand alone” as possible, but you may wish to read the […]

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