In the following blog I provide an summary of Alain de Botton’s Art is Therapy Project and then apply his thinking to curriculum issues, timely I hope given that Lewis is close to a launch…
Orwell keeps getting more and more brilliant. A friend of mine asked for some advice for escaping what he referred to as “Google’s all-seeing eye.” He explained that he installed Firefox and added an extension…
This semester in History and Sociology of Sport and Exercise Science, students will be using a new instructional strategy aimed at increasing student motivation and engagement. The concept of gamification is being added to the…
All is quiet in the house. I flip open my laptop to check my email and Facebook, while my baby daughter lies asleep, close by. I fight to stay awake, however briefly, to enjoy the…
At this week’s NATO meeting in Wales the question on the table is: are we back to the USSR? The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is behaving as if he is planning to reconstitute the USSR bit by…
An interesting paper (summarized quite well in the MIT Technology Review) presents a new technique for discovering the keys used by popular encryption tools. By measuring the variation in voltage at various points on a computer’s case as it runs…
A REVIEW OF MASTERING THE ART OF SOVIET COOKING (2013) by Anya Von Bremzen. Today’s news brings the revelation that Russian authorities have closed down the fourth McDonald’s (the first outside Moscow) for health…
The recent decision by the NCAA to allow the Power Conferences (with a total of 65 institutions in 5 major conferences like the Big Ten and Southeast Conference) to set some of their own…
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Are you looking for an advantage in the classroom this upcoming semester? Whether it is to stay productive with workloads, learning content, or to stay organized, using mobile apps is one way to dominate the…
In a previous blog (July 8th) on the documentary film The Ivory Tower (2014), I alluded to a far different kind of documentary on the same subject, the state of higher education. Andrew…