The Value of Systems Thinking
What if the best way out of our big health problems is to think our way out? The CDC seems to think so. Take a…
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Ideas, thoughts, resources, and stubs (ideas in development).
The Success Paradox
What would you like to accomplish? Right now, we as a community have some pretty big goals: We want to launch an awesome Minecraft gamer…
Tobin Miller Shearer’s Advice on Talking to Whites About Racism
Lately I’ve been working through Mennonite resources on racism. While the movement has always been about peacemaking since its 15th century beginning, there has been…
Oops! He Fell Into a Black Whole
The other day, Etcetera and I were talking about black holes (again). He was talking about the effects at the event horizon and how something…
Brain Hacking: Procrastination
We’ve had a lot of talk about procrastination: the problem of low-energy and putting things off. It seems to show up as at least two…
Where Are The Standard Deviants?
For the next couple of Science Tuesdays, I’d like to explore standard deviation — an important concept in statistics, and therefore an important idea for…
A Tax On The Brain
Salty or tough characters like to quote the adage: “There are only two things certain in life: death and taxes.” Notice that these two inevitable…
When There’s No Synthesis
I had a conversation with my Dad about politics. Although in actuality we agree on more than we disagree, the topic has been a hard…