Creativity is greatly valued: A poem

May 12, 2019

Creativity is greatly valuedCreativity is greatly valued For his sharpness His ability to look beyond The surface And willingness to Give it a shotTo break Out of the box The cubicle And jump When the towers burnt Who knew Box cutters Had...

Of ballots and names…

Jan 9, 2008

Jon Krosnick, a professor at Stanford, argues that Hillary Clinton's surprise victory in the New Hampshire primary (contrary to what was being predicted in the pre-election surveys) could be simply due to the design of the ballot! Here is is the key quote: Our...

Design book-review podcasts

Oct 12, 2017

I am teaching a new masters/doctoral seminar titled Design in the real world. This is the first class I am teaching here after coming to ASU and it is exciting to back in with students engaged in discussions about design, technology, and its role in our...

Nature v.s. nurture, what are we missing

Dec 31, 2009

Jordy Whitmer over at the Birmingham School district forwarded me this link to this really cool video by George Kembel on Awakening Creativity. There is a lot in the video to ponder and discuss but I want to focus on something he said about music learning that really...

Stuck with Google (recursively)

Jan 19, 2010

The other day, for one reason or another, I did a Google search for the word "recursion." According to Wikipedia, recursion ... in mathematics and computer science, is a method of defining functions in which the function being defined is applied within its own...

The Innocent

Jan 16, 2008

I first read Ian McEwan many years ago (in the 80's I think) when he wrote grim and macabre novels and short stories, full of strange dark humor. I found him somewhat interesting but not enough to seek out his books. And then, years later, this past fall I read...

Not so Cuil

Jul 28, 2008

I was just trying out Cuil the new search engine and came up with some strange results. This is what the front page looks like, rather dark for my liking, but again they had to do something different from Google's stark white front page. if you click on the "About...

Creativity, genius & age

Nov 8, 2008

Malcolm Gladwell has a great essay in a recent New Yorker on the relationship between genius and age. It is popularly believed that genius is often tied up with precocity. There are two aspects to this. First, creativity requires the energy and brashness of youth....

Happy New Year

Dec 25, 2010

For the past couple of years now, our family has been creating new year's greetings using stop-motion video. This year was no exception. Here it is (on Vimeo) http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=18164777 A very wonderful holidays and a very happy new year to all of...

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Trevor Suozzo on June 1, 2010 at 10:09 am

Great 🙂 As a online gamer myself i must say i have never played a game like mir3. It has a cool unique PVP system. You can try it urself search “Avenge mir3” in google.

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