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I Like This

07 May What Does It Mean To Be Alive?

Posted at 18:04h in Creativity, Events, Human Development, I Like This, Performance Movement, Play, Speaking Engagements, What's New 4 Comments

That's the title TEDxNavesink gave to an item on their blog that that features me—I like it! I've enjoyed and hated (sometimes in the same moment) preparing my talk for its performance this Saturday May 10 in Red Bank NJ. I'm excited to do it and to meet all the...

16 Apr TEDxNavesink to Feature a Day of/on Play

Posted at 02:04h in Creativity, Human Development, I Like This, Play, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

I’m pleased to be among one of two dozen presenters at TEDxNavesink: Play— on Saturday May 10th, at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. The all day event will educate and entertain on the many ways that play is a positive force in our lives. Here’s a preview of...

08 Apr What Dogs Do for Us

Posted at 23:40h in I Like This, Uncategorized, What's New 2 Comments

Jane Brody is the Personal Health columnist for The New York Times. Her April 8, 2014 column, “My Life as a Dog Owner,” is lovely. She speaks personally of how her life changed when she got a dog and moves from there to share research on the health that dogs...

30 Mar Why Physicists Make Up Stories in the Dark

Posted at 15:44h in Creativity, I Like This, Philosophy, What's New 2 Comments

"Before science had the means to explore [the unseen], we had to make do with stories that became enshrined in myth and folklore. Those stories aren’t banished as science advances; they are simply reinvented. Scientists working at the forefront of the invisible will always be confronted with gaps in knowledge,...

09 Mar Billboard + Humidity = Water

Posted at 20:27h in I Like This 0 Comments

See what happened in when a a university, an ad agency, a serious social-economic-environmental problem, and a billboard come together. Watch the video and and read the article....

28 Feb Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information

Posted at 20:18h in Culture, I Like This, Philosophy, Theatre, What's New 0 Comments

I just saw "Love and Information", the new play by the great playwright Carly Churchill. Unique in form (15 actors played 100 parts in 57 scenes that are seconds to a few minutes long), it's equally unusual in content—how our obsession with knowing and information permeates our everyday conversations and...

16 Feb Beyond the Therapeutic State

Posted at 03:07h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Events, I Like This, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, What's New 2 Comments

That’s the title of a conference taking place in Norway this coming June. I like the title for a few reasons. First, therapy has become “an arm” of the state. Second, I agree that we must believe in and work for something other than (“beyond”) the current therapy institution (what...

23 Jan No Words for the Joy Music Creates for Us

Posted at 18:08h in I Like This 0 Comments

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...

22 Jan Seeing the Unseen in High School Theatre

Posted at 20:39h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Publications, What's New 0 Comments

The Unseen Benefits of the Arts in Schools, An Op Ed by Univrsity of Georgia professor Peter Smagornisky. I'm glad to say I've known Peter for many years through our work together in AERA (American Educational Research Association). Peter's co-author is Michelle Thorne. I like how they help us see a...

04 Jan Improv in Science featured in the prestigious science journal Nature

Posted at 19:52h in Creativity, Education, I Like This, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Play, What's New 0 Comments

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....