“One of Governor Warner’s operating principles is to go where the voters are,” she continues, “not make them come to you. We saw how rich an environment [SL] was. I mean, you can sit next to someone’s avatar, strike up a conversation, and forget that you’re not in the same room. We started to see [...]

… Groovy
I just found out that Spike Jonze is making a film based on Where the Wild Things Are, and Dave Eggers is getting screenwriting credits. How neat is that?
I stumbled across this after finding this commercial Jonze Wes Anderson directed. I posted it up on the HTEC website, but it is worth posting here [...]

“A mote it is to trouble the mind’s eye.” -Hamlet
Interesting find on BoingBoing. Someone at Stanford compiled a list of over 7,800 metaphors for the mind, and sumbitted it as a searchable dissertation.

Brad Pasanak: The Mind is a Metaphor
In my dissertation, Eighteenth-Century Metaphors of Mind, A Dictionary, I analyze a collection of over 7,000 metaphors [...]

Thanks, DS.
“The power of the community to decide, of course, asks us to reexamine what we mean when we say that something is ‘true.’ We tend to think of truth as something that resides in the world. The fact that two plus two equals four is written in the stars-we merely discovered it. But Wikipedia [...]

The basic debate over folk psychology is whether or not our common sense psychological terms like ‘intentions’ refer to actual entities in the brain. I generally side with the eliminativists on these issues, but the token eliminiativists like Churchland often come across as if the (primitive, ignorant) ‘folk’ are making a huge mistake by continuing [...]

I have a bunch of videos I want to show my students, but my classroom doesn’t have the resources to show them any video clips, and I don’t have a laptop to bring in anyway. I’ve been putting videos on the HTEC site, but I can’t be sure that everyone will have the codecs to [...]

I’ve been quite busy. I’ve moved, I’m preparing a new class (complete with website), and I have an bleeding ear infection that, thanks to a whole lot of vicodin has kept me bed ridden for the last week.
But even still, I have to post this:
The study involved 69 children, ages 7 to 12, who were [...]