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10 Life Lessons from a Former Navy SEAL
With graduation season upon us, sometimes it feels like at any given moment there is a commencement speech happening somewhere in America. As many a speaker (and audience member) will readily admit,...
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Do Professors Show Bias When Choosing Students to Mentor?
A recent story on NPR discussed apparent bias by university faculty when it came to selecting students who would receive the most guidance. The discussion centered around results of a recent study...
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Friday Links: Freud, Philosophy, Forward-Thinking, and Frozen
Freudian Slipcovers: Photographer and psychoanalyst Mark Gerald has an ongoing project in which he photographs psychoanalysts in their offices. *************** Philosophy meets graphic design:...
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Weekly Roundup 6-7-14
School: Bard College is in its second year of a radical change to their admission process: Write four essays, and if they are graded B+ or higher by a committee of faculty, you’re automatically...
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Weekly Roundup 6-19-14
Sorry I’m a few days late with the Roundup! Last Friday was my last day at my internship, and I had a surprising amount of work to wrap up. I’m really going to miss all of my colleagues and the...
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Our Neglected Mental Health System
Manteno State Hospital, Illinois. Opened in 1930, Manteno State Hospital was once the largest psychiatric hospital in the United States, with a peak population of 8,195. The hospital closed for good in...
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy via Your Password
Photo credit: Mauricio Estrella Here’s an interesting idea, courtesy of Mauricio Estrella. In a blog post titled How a Password Changed My Life, Mauricio shares how he came up with the idea of using...
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Teaching Students How to Learn
A recent article in Business Insider discusses a big problem with most classrooms: Teachers do a good job of teaching students what to learn, but they tend to neglect the important step of teaching...
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The Social Cost of iPads in Schools
A recent paper by a team from the Children’s Digital Media Center in Los Angeles explores what happened to a group of sixth-graders who attended a nature camp without any digital media available for...
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“Song Portraits”
“Seems so Long” by Stevie Wonder Synasthesia is “a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or...
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