What do you get when you cross a science nerd with a jazz saxophonist? Apparently, a researcher with enough curiosity, talent and intelligence to actually video, in real time, the brain functions of people at their most creative.
Oh, so this is what it’s all about.
For a child, losing that first tooth is a significant event. It marks the beginning of the end of “Babyhood,” and can even be viewed as an early of Rite of Passage. For all of those reasons, we will always remember the evening that my oldest daughter, Emma (who is now nine), lost [...]
Thought the debate about gender based differences was over? Think you know the best way to treat your opposite sex children or students so that they aren’t shackled by stereotypes about what they can or can not do? Think again.
A couple of weeks ago I read an amusing column by Joe Soucheray in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In it he wrote about how the educational system we’re pouring billions of dollars into is failing because it continues to crank out idiots who (among other things) don’t understand that you can actually die [...]
Are you giving your kids every advantage?
A little over a year ago I took a graduate class designed to, “. . .introduce educators to links between brain research and success in the classroom.” I learned a lot. The brain is a wonderfully complex and fascinating piece of work. And we still have a long way [...]
