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A Great Idea for Great Ideas
Once upon a time, OmniGraffle software was provided free with every Apple Mac computer. That’s how I learned about it. Now, I use OmniGraffle on my iPad and the desktop. When it comes to sketching out...
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21st Century Debate
Although the series has been on the air for over five years, I discovered Intelligence ² within the past twelve months. Last night, I watched Malcolm Gladwell argue that college football was a bad idea...
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The Mind of Howard Gardner
From his Harvard bio, one of my personal heroes. Few academics have captured my imagination, and affected my thinking, as consistently or as deeply as Howard Gardner. Harvard Professor Howard Gardner...
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The Key to Fun and Learning
For many years, scholars have debated the aesthetics of film (or, with greater pretense, “cinema”) and the mass culture associated with television (or, with less pretense, “TV” or “the idiot box”)....
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The Multiplier Effect
Quickly now… If you multiply 633 by 11, what’s the answer? No doubt, you recognize the pattern, and you may recall the mental math process: 633 x 10, plus 633 x 1, or 6,330 plus 633, or 6,963, which is...
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Big Ideas Simply Explained
Three subjects that I can never seem to understand as completely as I would like: Philosophy Economics Psychology Whenever I read a book about any of these subjects, I feel like a student, which means,...
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Outsourcing the Human Brain
(Copyright 2006 by Zelphics [Apple Bushel])Before we start outsourcing, let’s prepare an inventory and analysis with this concept in mind: Our intelligence has enabled us to overcome the restrictions...
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Welcome to the Connectome
Diffusion spectrum image shows brain wiring in a healthy human adult. The thread-like structures are nerve bundles, each containing hundreds of thousands of nerve fibers.Source: Source: Van J. Wedeen,...
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The Brilliant Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart passed away recently. His name may be unfamiliar. His work is not. Engelbart was an engineer who invented, among other things, your computer’s mouse, and, by extension, his work made...
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Unitasking
With an iPhone in one pocket and an iPad in another, my shoulder bag allows me to work pretty much anywhere. I work in the car (Bluetooth headphone when I’m driving; iPad when my wife drives). I grab a...
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