An interesting article from a magazine I’ve just started exploring: Miller-McCune. From their website comes an article stating that empathy may drive workplace creativity:
Writing in the Academy of Management Journal, Adam Grant of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and James Berry of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill report “intrinsic motivation is [...]
Although this movie doesn’t star any members of the Flight of the Conchords (see: Eagle vs Shark), it does pit something that flies against a shark. And it looks amazing–in one sense of the word.
Exhibit A:
The movie is Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus and, thanks to Stephen Taubman, it even has a science component to [...]
There is tons of great journalism, fiction, photography, poetry out there in the world of blogs (I hate the term blogosphere). Problem is that for every Moby Dick of the blog world there are at least a thousand Atlas Shruggeds–if you get my drift. It’s too bad there’s no blog police or something of that [...]
A strange thing happened to me last night. At some point, during a normal night of REM sleep and vivid dreams, I began to realize I was dreaming. That in itself isn’t so strange. Called lucid dreaming, it happens when a part of your brain called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex wakes up while you’re still [...]
From Jennifer Michael Hecht’s book Doubt:
With the gods gone, the universe seemed like a dead place of violence and chance and we human beings the minuscule representatives of our own emotive fantasy. All that is left of this fantasy is what we maintain in our own civilized, cultured behavior–little creatures holding back the encroachment of [...]
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.”
I remember the exact moment I was introduced to Zinn. It was at a party in the Plateau where I knew next [...]
I’ve run across a bunch of interesting articles this morning. Here are some of the highlights:
1) Big Placebo says Medicine never cures anything by Amy Tuteur. A quick, easy-to-read criticism of alternative medicine. I’ve always been really interested in the “natural remedies/alternative medicine” fascination that is so popular today. There are good reasons to be [...]
On your way to work you pass a small pond. On hot days, children sometimes play in the pond, which is only knee-deep. The weather’s cool today, though, and the hour is early, so you are surprised to see a child splashing about in the pond. As you get closer, you see that it is [...]
This happened back in December but in case anyone missed this (like I did) here’s an interesting story.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued an open challenge: on December 5, 2009 at 10am ET they would raise one red weather balloon eight feet in diameter (see right) in 10 random locations in the [...]
While the RadarLake writers are getting their lives back in order after an overly festive holiday season, here’s something I wrote for the Brome County News last year.
New Years is a very peculiar time of the year. We could easily just ignore it the way we ignore the changing of the months but then [...]
