Thoughts

thoughts, ideas, questions, and rants

small places

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September 28, 2010

I’ve been putting off writing this post. This post may be covering some topics in such a manner that some people I know may not like (potentially some fellow citizens of my home town…). So here goes… I am currently living in the town I was born in , grew up in, went to high [...]


are names important?

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September 19, 2010

I’ve always liked words; I like to play with the fine shadings in meaning which come from dealing with the connotations as well as the denotations of words. With this in mind I have a few questions to ask… Would you be a different person if you had a different name? I imagine most people [...]


kinds of thinking

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September 17, 2010

As I was working my way through my virtual pile of virtual newspaper articles (via Instapaper!), I found this: Of mind and matter: David Attenborough meets Richard Dawkins  


more education problems…

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September 16, 2010

In the last week I have run across a number of interesting (and more importantly), and thought provoking articles online. I guess I should get to business…first off; I have a couple articles presenting some interesting perspectives on a few of the apparent long term problems with our current education methods.  


what’s new…?

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September 15, 2010

I should, first off, apologize for the fact that I haven’t posted in the last two weeks anywhere as regularly as I usually do… I have been checking out and evaluating a number of audio, video, and photo apps for the iPad with the intentions of using these new tools (and slowly accumulating ‘new’ skills)in [...]


objective journalism…

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September 7, 2010

On Sunday, I was reading the New York Times (on my iPhone for free…), and I ran across a rather curious op-ed piece (in the Opinions category of the paper). This ‘opinion piece’ was written by the seemingly new Public Editor (Arthur Brisbane) for the NYT: ‘In an age of Voices, Moving beyond the Facts’. [...]


What does thinking feel like?

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August 27, 2010

I was sitting in a local coffee shop thinking about some of the recent posts I have written what relate to metacognition (i.e. thinking about thinking). In the midst of my navel gazing the thought came to me “is there a sensation of thinking?” If there is a sensation of thinking, where does it reside? [...]


e-textbooks…

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August 24, 2010

In the few years since I graduated from college, it would seem that having a laptop (or the equivalent) has gone from being a handy tool to the prime prerequisite to college life. Not too surprisingly, there is a comparable movement of students toward dealing with electronic versions of textbooks (albeit several years after this [...]


North Korea is on Facebook…

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August 23, 2010

I love being surprised by events in life…In a strange way, finding out that the People’s Republic of North Korea now has a Facebook page may qualify… I found this bit of trivia as enthralling as finding out that Muammar al-Gaddafi intended to market a super car of his own design (look out Ferrari!) a [...]


more problems with education…

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August 19, 2010

Yesterday I was thinking about what is most important in one’s education. That is, what did you consider to me most important then…and now. The thought came to me that learning how to think would likely trump anything else in one’s growth as a human. This brings up a number of quite complicated questions for [...]


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