Creativity… Friday Flick: Infinity Elephants 18 Mar 201119 Mar 2011 Meet Vi Hart "mathemusician" and infinitely creative. (I wonder what she was like as a kindergartner.) Here's one of her math doodle games.
Books… Learning Overload 15 Mar 2011 No solitude today. Interestingly enough, it was an exhibit on brains which left my brain too saturated with vivid imagery, rapid delivery, random information, and crowd noises to process what…
Brain… If You Build It, They Will See It 14 Mar 201114 Mar 2011 Some people go to all the trouble of designing and producing buildings, only to make them ugly. Why not hire an architect who understands proportions? Select beautiful colors for the…
Change the World… Tell Your Story, Inspire World Peace 12 Mar 201112 Mar 2011 "Peace comes about when one party recognizes the narrative of an antagonistic party and sees its point. Peace presumes the capacity of one party to enter in some way into…
Change the World… The Poetry of Music 7 Mar 20117 Mar 2011 I'm just home from a university choir concert, aptly named "Waxing Poetic." Several well-trained choirs from Arizona State University prepared sacred and humorous works, performed in a sacred space, and…
Animation… Modern Magic 5 Mar 20119 Mar 2011 “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~Arthur C. Clarke This weekend, I watched ITT Tech Tempe's graduating design students present capstone projects of architectural plans, or animation, or…
Business… Friday Flick: Covey on the Talking Stick 4 Mar 20117 Mar 2011 Could we pass the talking stick around the world? Here's Stephen R. Covey introducing the idea. And remember that writing allows you to speak without interruption--and without others unwittingly changing…
Blogging… Teachers Appear 3 Mar 20113 Mar 2011 Learn a new word and hear it everywhere. Begin a practice and support appears. As I practice breathing this year, it appears that meditation and yoga have taken over the…
Change the World… Stories from College Drop-In Steve Jobs 1 Mar 201110 Mar 2011 “You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have…
Change the World… Friday Flick: Decide to Launch 25 Feb 201125 Feb 2011 In my childhood, I saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. In my young adulthood, I heard the Challenger explosion by radio. Now I'm raising a rocket scientist. I will…
Blogging… Topic Poll 19 Feb 201125 Feb 2011 Feel free to elaborate in a comment or question. Text © Gwyn Nichols 2011
Animation… Friday Flick: Animator vs. Animation 18 Feb 201117 Feb 2011 Alan Becker's stick figure fights back.
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