Are you ever tangled up in a tough problem, sleep on it, and then wake up with a solution?   Do ideas come to you in the shower, on a walk, or doing the dishes?  These ideas come...

"What I expect now is something as dramatic is going to happen, not so much in medicine but in economy and culture."      -- Gianna Pomata, Institute of the History of Medicine,...

“This is about lack of imagination.” Ali S. Khan, of the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, New Yorker, May 4, 2020 The Coronavirus pandemic caught...

This fall, schools face a dilemma: should teachers address time lost to Covid-19 by returning to the goals of spring 2020.  Or should schools push students to master the 2020...

Like the U.S., Canada has been thrust into a national educational experiment in distance learning.  However, long before the arrival of Covid-19, the Ontario Ministry of...

The coronavirus has turned American education into a vast uncharted experiment, in which we are all both the experimenters and the guinea pigs. As one teacher commented in...

By Stanley Rosenberg and Dan Hunter Originally published in Commonwealth: Nonprofit Journal of Politics, Ideas, and Civic Life on June 1, 2019   TODAY WE MUST educate...

Now!  After centuries of mystery! Get the low-down on the throw-down showdown! Artificial intelligence to the rescue! The ancient Japanese game of janken, known as...

You’ve just enjoyed a standup comedy routine or watched a comedy in the theater.  Maybe, you even laughed until you cried.  You feel good. (wriggly) Why do humans laugh?  What...

“Can you teach people to be creative?” is the wrong question. “Can you teach people to use their imagination more productively?” That’s a better question. But, if your goal is...