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Overweight Brain Mini Blog

21 Oct Praise for The Overweight Brain

Posted at 21:59h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Reviews 0 Comments

I’m so grateful for readers’ responses to The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world! “This book may disorient you – be stirred, not shaken! Lois’s book is about knowledge and knowing, and what is wrong with them. She lays down a...

01 Aug Roots of The Overweight Brain

Posted at 15:35h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Later this month I'll be posting the next and final chapter of The Overweight Brain. To whet your appetite (and maybe entice you to go back and read the book from the beginning), here's an interview with me by Janet Wootten—The Backstory of The Overweight Brain. Q: Lois, you’re about to post...

16 Jan Valuing Facts

Posted at 19:24h in Look and Listen, Overweight Brain Mini Blog 0 Comments

My call to action...

19 Feb Creating Conversation on Non-Knowing Growing

Posted at 14:37h in Events, Interviews, Look and Listen, Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

Thanks to the dozens of people who created conversation with me the week of Februry 8-12 on my book-in-progress, The Overweight Brain. You can view the online running conversation—so thoughtful and playful—and view or listen to the live chat. Video recording of the webinar with Lois Holzman on The Overweight Brain: Audio...

24 Mar No More Academic Subjects in Finnish Schools

Posted at 01:28h in I Like This, Learning Environments, Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Play 1 Comment

March 24, 2015 article in The Independent Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with 'topics' as country reforms its education system A step in the right direction...

23 Feb The ABCs of How Schools Are Stupid

Posted at 15:59h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, What's New 18 Comments

I’ve been writing a new chapter on education—how our obsession with knowing makes schools stupid. The chapter begins with what I’m calling “the ABCs of the ABCs”—like A is for Age Groups, B is for Behavior, C is for Control. (I have a paragraph on each but I don’t want...

29 Dec When It Comes to the Brain, Maps + Data = Maps + Data

Posted at 18:29h in I Like This, Overweight Brain Mini Blog 2 Comments

"Are We Living in the Age of the Brain?" In Prospect magazine.science writer Philip Ball does a good job exploring what all the brain research that's going on might—and might not—mean. His reservations, in part, have to do with generating more and more data for our already overweight brains. "But the challenges...

10 Oct Illustrating the Overweight Brain at Performing the World

Posted at 10:14h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, What's New 4 Comments

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28 May Duck-Rabbit and Dog

Posted at 19:49h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Philosophy, What's New, Wittgenstein 4 Comments

What do you see above? A duck? A rabbit? In his book Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein presents us with this "ambiguous figure" of a duck-rabbit to show us how how perception is not reducible to the mechanism of the eye and optic nerve. (Most people see either a head of a duck...

19 May A Look at Reader Poll Results

Posted at 20:02h in I Like This, Overweight Brain Mini Blog, What's New 0 Comments

May 19, 2014 Along with comment sections of each chapter, The Overwight Brain Reader Polls give you a chance to participate in the activity of creating this book. They also give me some idea of who you—the readers—are and what you think. I deeply appreciate your participation! By far the most popular...