This week I’ll be talking about A Whole New Mind in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Monday (sold out!), Philadelphia on Tuesday, and Lawrence, Kansas, on Thursday. Click the links for more information. Meantime, several reviews, including Newsweek and Publishers Weekly, have come in over the last few days — and the reviewers have been (whew!) kind. […]
That’s the headline on a must-read piece in the new Business Week. Applications at the top 30 MBA programs are down 30% since 1998. And some schools “have gone so far as to quietly reduce the number of students they enroll each year.” The reasons? Tuition is soaring
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia quotes A Whole New Mind in this Boston Globe op-ed. Cool. (The Wired book excerpt to which Gioia refers is here.)
“PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain,” Reuters reports.
Chapter Six of A Whole New Mind is about Play, one of the six key abilities of the Conceptual Age. Ernst Lurker writes to say that this idea squares well with the Play Art movement he founded. Check out his site. Among much fascinating information, you’ll find some great quotations about the importance of play
Pretty much nothing. The dreamy CNN doc is smarter, better looking, and more accomplished than I am. But if you pick up the May issue of Worthwhile magazine, you’ll see that we do dress alike. Apparently we take our fashion cues from Steve Jobs.
The great Saul Bellow died yesterday. The New York Times has an excellent long obituary that reviews Bellow
I’m off to Phoenix for a day of flogging. If you’re in the area, come to the main event Tuesday night at Vermillion Studios. But even if you’re not in the area, check out the incredibly cool event poster. (Postscript: They’ve apparently added more seats to accommodate additional people — so come on down!)
