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Behind the serve
On more than one occasion over the last year I have been asked by the British media about ‘cloud computing’ (CC) and implications for both players and the gaming industry. In practical terms, CC refers...
View ArticleHow Writing Instruction Is Changing in Schools
Common Core State Standards are driving the curriculum and changing the expectations for what teachers and children are expected to do during writing instruction in school. Here are Common Core’s 10...
View ArticleNew Methods of Conflict Reduction Save Companies Billions
We have made significant progress in understanding why people fight each other at work and at home. The application of this knowledge to human resources has resulted in new methods of conflict...
View ArticleBella and Beavis: Dog Mourns the Death of Her Beaver Friend
I've written a number of essays about grief and mourning in nonhuman animals (animals) and just today I learned of a most heartwarming video of a dog named Bella deeply grieving the loss of Beavis, her...
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Top Three Tips for Better Final Exam Week Performance
As we approach the end of another academic year for students at both the high school and college level it may prove useful to reflect on strategies that can help them get through the exam period with...
View ArticleDon’t People in Chronic Pain Have Enough To Deal With?
Chronic pain is part of the human condition. Our backs didn't have enough evolutionary time to make the full engineering adjustment to upright posture- so low back pain is endemic. Because our...
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Nerds, Love and the Meaning of Life
Among the courses I teach at Milwaukee School of Engineering is speech. It's a class of mostly freshmen, but by the spring term they are college veterans, used to the pace and structure of university...
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What Kids Need Now to Be Successful Later
There is a huge deficit in our society and it starts with what we teach our kids, or rather I should say, what we don't teach our kids. My career has largely been centered on the manifestations of this...
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More than Words: Five Ways to Unleash the Power of Symbols
More than words…more than words…more than words… I almost always seem to have a song running through my head. Usually it’s something that I’ve heard in the past few days. During this past month,...
View ArticleDetermining What Is Normal Behavior, and What Is Not.
The concept of physical illness is readily understood: the body becomes infected or inflamed, or grows abnormally, or is affected in any number of ways, all of which can be studied conventionally with...
View ArticleUp in the Air
I should have been looking forward to my vacation in Arizona, where my brother and sister-in-law lived. After all, we hadn’t seen them in quite some time, and my brother and I had recently bonded over...
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Making Big Decisions in Your Twenties
A fascinating piece in The New Yorker about deciding whether to go to grad school (in English literature, in this case, but it would apply to almost any field, especially in the job-challenged...
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Sex Scandal Reflects a Choice, Not a Disease
In yet another celebrity relationship split, the host of TMZ Channel's “My Fair Wedding” is accused of being a sex addict, and that this alleged affliction is the reason for the couple breaking up....
View ArticleThe Ultimate Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine
Would you believe there’s a secret that can heal depression, prevent heart disease, and help us live longer? Even more impressive, it doesn’t come in a bottle or with a hefty price tag.In fact, it’s...
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The New Self-Sufficiency: Preppers and Urban Homesteaders
Last year, on assignment for Outside magazine, I headed down to South Carolina to hang out with a bunch of neo-survivalists who call themselves “preppers.” These preppers were basically ordinary...
View ArticleDebunking the Persistent Myth of Lagging U.S. Schools
Beliefs that are debatable or even patently false may be repeated so often that at some point they come to be accepted as fact. We seem to have crossed that threshold with the claim that U.S. schools...
View ArticleRethinking The Bully Brand
Whenever I hear the word "bully," I run for cover. I don't know what scares me more—the memories of venomous torment I’ve personally endured in school and in the workplace, or the troubling tide of...
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Make Your Body Ripe For Miracles
You may know that your body is brilliantly equipped with natural self-repair mechanisms that repair broken proteins, kill cancer cells, fight infections, retard aging, and generally keep your body...
View ArticleWaiting for Therapeutic Theatre
It’s late on a Friday night in early spring and the audience at the Provincetown Playhouse has long since emptied the renovated theatre. Standing in front of the theatre on MacDougal Street, a friendly...
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In Her Closet
Last week, I prepared to enter my mother’s walk-in closet. Over the past several months, I’ve been going to her house—my childhood home—a couple of times a week, sifting through piles of papers,...
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