All Blog Posts Tagged 'culture' (4)

I just finished watching episode 2 of this series, Back to School, which, along with original 2002 Time for School broadcast, can be watched in their entirety online. Part 3 is coming in September. I'm really glad I watched. Rath… Continue

I've grown very curious about how American politics has played out over the time since WW2 that I've been alive. Although a student of politics during my college days, the recent U.S. Presidential election campaign re-engaged me in reading and thinking about American politics and how it might be a subject for exploration constructively even by students of elementary school age. I've just begun reading Rick Perlstein's… Continue

I woke up this morning with "making things" (which led to "making sense" and "making lives") on my mind. Is it just me that wonders why fewer of us create the world actively which we inhabit, but instead comply with training to follow directions and expectations--passively and unpoetically and logistically--which command servitude of us that at bottom is our now accustomed view of how the world works? Even the sentences we speak like the things in our lives that as time passes go unnoticed and a… Continue

As a result of my interest in Marcel Proust, I was led to a (first) book written by a young neuroscientist (Columbia '03) named Jonah Lehrer; here's a link to his webpage. There you'll find a link to an Amazon.com page to the book, titled Proust Was A Neuroscientist. What makes me even more curious about this remarkably mindful young fellow is that after Columbia he studied for two years at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholars… Continue