Time alone? Many would rather hurt themselves – Yahoo News. By Kerry Sheridan Here’s an interesting study. Just over 200 people ranging in age from 18 to 77 were simply asked to sit in a room for 15 minutes and then describe the experience to researchers. The room provided very little stimulation: no phones, no […]
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July 7, 2014
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June 24, 2014
Reflections on the Evolution and Deep History of “Mentalization”
Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar has just released a new book entitled Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind. Dunbar wrote his book along with two archaeology colleagues, Clive Gamble and John Gowlett. For simplicity, at times, I’ll refer to Thinking Big as Dunbar’s book. In the rest of this post […]
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June 10, 2014
TRUER WORDS: “Endangered Minds”
Today’s Truer Words come from the 1991 book by education researcher Jane Healy entitled Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It. Healy writes: While the adult community sanctimoniously bewails erosion of academic rigor and achievement … it perpetuates the practices that are shortening children’s attention spans and rendering their brains unfit […]
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May 20, 2014
A Few Reflections on Grantmaking and Intuition
Way back in September of 2008 I attended the annual conference of the Association of Small Foundations (now called Exponent Philanthropy) up in Denver. There was one concurrent session that I was particularly interested in: The Secret of Effective Grants: The Power of Intuition. This session was put on by Chet Tchozewski and Gabriel Works. […]
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COMMENT: Lets Think Critically About Critical Thinking
Common Core keeps popping up on my radar screen these days. As I understand it, Common Core is an attempt by educators to standardize teaching curriculums across the US with the central goal of raising the US’s reported dismal world standing in science and math. As an example, this USNews.com article Are We Misinterpreting the […]
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