Author: loisholzman

I have very few photos of my life before age 20 and lots and lots since then. I found one of Murray and another of Murray and me. And here's one of Fred and one of Fred and me. [caption id="attachment_2053" align="alignright" width="208"] Fred and me, circa 1990[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2051" align="alignleft" width="300"]...

Filmmaker Michael Rossato Bennett explores what music is and its power to "awaken" people with dementia. Watch the clip from "Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory” premiering at the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Bennett comments that we don't have the vocabulary for what music does to us...

Here’s something I’ve been mulling over for a long time (decades!): the “blessing and the curse” that is human language. What an invention! Making sounds together creating meanings, meanings creating and shaping and reshaping perceptions, concepts, beliefs, feelings, relationships, images, imagination… What we have done and continue to do with, and...

Hats off to Rachel Berstein for writing Communication: Spontaneous Scientists in the January 1, 2014 issue of Nature. Featured in the article along with funny man and improv devotee Alan Alda, is cell biologist Raquel Holmes, who began her business improvscience while a student in the program I run, The International Class....