Careful readers of AWNM know about that Rainbow Project, an alternative SAT, that is often a better predictor of college grades than the mainstream test. Part of the Rainbow Project involves giving test-takers blank New Yorker cartoons and asking them to write captions. It’s an interesting exercise in R-Directed thinking — which is one reason […]
Factoid: “Although English speakers outnumber Japanese speakers by more than 5-1, slightly more blog postings are written in Japanese than in English . . . [and] By some estimates, as much as 40 percent of Japanese blogging is done on mobile phones.” (From this excellent WaPo story on Japanese bloggers) Quote: “The way left-brain people
“The largest number of adolescents in history is coming of age world-wide. All told, some 1.2 billion people — one person in five — are between ages 10 and 19, according to the United Nations Population Fund. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 29 million teenagers, with their numbers growing at twice the
“In the past, we were left-brain oriented: science, tech, engineering; as we move to a creative society, we need to leverage the right side of the brain.” — Tan Chin Nam, Permanent secretary, Singapore’s Ministry of information, communication and the arts (Source: Bruno Giussani’s Lunch over IP blog, 11/29/07)
Michael Bierut — he of the must-read book, 79 Short Essays on Design — emails his own examples of emotionally intelligent signage, which his Pentagram partner Paula Scher created for the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum. “Not exactly what you mean,” he writes, “but funny for parents, and — I promise you — every kid wants to
Phil Downs, principal of Cedar Canyon Elementary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, writes: “We were having problems with our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders playing in the restrooms at our school. Here is our attempt at an emotionally intelligent sign for them.” Permalink
“Last year migrants from poor countries sent home $300 billion, nearly three times the world’s foreign aid budgets combined.” (Source: New York Times, 11.22.08)
So I’m in Dubai, UAE, for a presentation. I arrive Monday night local time, do an all-day program on Tuesday, then race back to my hotel afterwards to deal with a few urgent matters back in the States. Soon it’s 7pm and I’ve got only a few hours to explore a place I’ve been only
Cory Doctorow has a great column in the Guardian about a Pop Artists exhibit at London’s National Portrait Gallery. The show celebrates the fizzy remixing typical of Pop Art and is replete with “cut up magazines, copied comic books, . . trademarked cartoon characters like Minnie Mouse, reproduced covers from Time magazine, made ironic use
Last month, Kate Fitzpatrick, town manager of Needham, Massachusetts, heard me yap about emotionally intelligent signage. Last week, she sent me an email: “As it happens, I was scheduled to teach four classes of eighth grade social studies at the end of the month. This was actually much more interesting and enjoyable than it sounds!
