Ed Thigpen
Ed Thigpen died yesterday. He was the drummer on so many of those great Oscar Peterson records. Together with Ray Brown, they defined what the Jazz trio should sound like. Tonight at dinner, I...
Author: Mike Garrity
Gatz & Holden
We went to see Gatz at the ART the other night. Gatz is a play by the Elevator Repair Service which is based on the novel The Great Gatsby. It’s a very interesting production....
Jonathan Haidt Interview
The Utne Reader has an interesting interview with Jonathan Haidt about politics. If you’re not familiar with Jonathan Haidt, he’s a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Virginia. He’s done a lot...
Blogging In Class
Tim Bray wrote a great post about being invited to visit his fifth grade son’s class and “teach the internet”. He created a blog and let them all start posting. Go check it out.
Arduino in The Atlantic
William Gurstelle has a nice short article about Arduino in the latest issue of The Atlantic. He’s trying to give their audience an idea of what maker culture is all about.
Fifty Dangerous Things
Do you remember our earlier post about Gever Tulley? Well he has a book out now on the same subject. I haven’t read it yet, but the table of contents includes good projects like:...
The 5 Stages of a Dismal Scientific Revolution
In most people’s minds, the recent financial crisis has been the last nail in the coffin of the Chicago School of Economics’ philosophies. That’s certainly what members of the saltwater school think, and I...
