In The City Beat, an essay by Omar Ali, the 2016 Carnegie Foundation North Carolina Professor of the Year and interim dean of Lloyd International Honors College at University of North Carolina at Greensboro on the origins of the blame game and how to stop playing it! Here's an excerpt: The philosopher...
Don't miss Jackie Salit (president, independentvoting.org) in the Huffington Post. "Mother Hillary and Uncle Bernie: A Theatrical Review" helps you see things you might have missed. "Like many a mainstay in American theatre, the CNN debate was a family drama. Like A Raisin in the Sun, or Death of a Salesman, or...
"I love to discover potential in people who aren't thought to have any." Oliver Sacks, who passed away on August 26, 2015 ...
Inner City Youth Need Development, Not Just Jobs Nice piece in the Chicago Business Journal with David Cherry, City Leader of All Stars Project Chicago and of the Chicago branch of its Development School for Youth. ...
Caught on Tape for August—Making a Conceptual Revolution with Lois Holzman and Eric Maisel Each month the Institute features a discussion of an audio or video recording from our web archives. These rich and varied presentations touch on a range of topics, such as group collective creativity, meaning-making, performance and play, learning...
I'm a big fan of Sugata Mitra. His work creating environments for and documenting self organizing learning environments (SOLE) is stunning. And here in his 2103 TED Talk about half way into the talk he raises the question, "Is Knowing obsolete?" And answers YES! I'm going to send him Fred Newman's...
It's been about a month since Nobel prize winning biochemist Tim Hunt's comments on "girls" in science, and the furor hasn't stopped yet. But along with his sexism is dangerous scientism—“Science is about nothing but getting at the truth and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in...
What's Developing in a World in Crisis? with Jackie Salit and Lois Holzman Each month the East Side Institute chooses an audio or video recording from its storehouse of talks and workshops. Some are classics, going back to the 1990s and featuring Fred Newman's annual lectures and plays. Others are from events...
If you're a reader of this blog you know I'm an advocate for diverse ways to support people who are experiencing emotional distress and for broadening the scope of treatment options. And that I work with many others not only to bring the voices of ordinary people into the dialogue...
The recycled orchestra of Cateura Paraguay These kids make instruments from items in the trash—it's horrible and it's beautiful. "To view scenes from the landfill slum of Cateura in Paraguay is to look into the depths of extreme poverty. But within the contents of the landfill are glimmers of hope in the...