Defense by Insanity
Insane = unhealthy. Only an unhealthy person would commit violent crimes. By definition, a healthy person wouldn’t do these things. So why should we treat unhealthy social behavior differently from …
Measure your children twice, cut once (Solomon type parenting?)
I, for better and worse, tend to be a bit of a rigid, linear thinker, prone to hyperliteralism. Thus, my therapist recommended a parenting book for me, The Gardner and …
Your [economic system] is bad
As with so many aspects of the larger human project, it becomes very easy to confuse the map with the territory, or to confuse an abstract concept with a physicalness …
Agape
Language frames and influences (though does not determine or circumscribe) thoughts and perceptions and therefore the solutions we are capable of imagining. We are in some ways recognizing this and …
All Brain Models are Wrong, Some are Handy
Dr Dan Siegel has a neat way to help visualize when we’re not thinking with are best brain. The “Handy Model of the Brain describes how the brainstem (wrist) connects …
Concrete Utopian Theorizing
I think it’s important to have an idea of what we want the future to look like, even if it seems far fetched. I’ve mentioned before how much science fiction …
Intergenerational Transmission of Information
intergeneration transmission
Positive Education
“Positive education views school as a place where students not only cultivate their intellectual minds, but also develop a broad set of character strengths, virtues, and competencies, which together support …
Science Based Morality?
A common argument I hear is that we can not use science to define or set human values, nor tell us what we “should” do. Why not? In a very …
License to sleep
It turns out that licensing a residential shelter for young children is quite expensive. Dennis Morrow from Janus discussed that it costs $400,000 annually to shelter 10 teenagers, and the …