SHARE        Saturday, May 21, 2011
FAN Brings Great Programs to New Trier Township Parents (2357 views) Dr. Carol Dweck is one of the most highly-regarded researchers in the field of motivation and learning in the world. Her theories about "growth" and "fixed" mindsets have wide application in many areas, including education, sports, and business -- really, any field that is vested in maximizing human potential. Her work speaks directly to the issues of student success, failure, resilience, motivation and learning.

SHARE        Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Dr. Amy Banks on Keeping Those Grey Cells Fit As We Age (3502 views) The most important thing to be doing as we age is to keep stimulating those brain cells.Staying engaged in mental activities like reading and learning and communicating with others keeps the brain cells alive and strong.I think people need to be able to maintain community and connections, opportunities to interact.The physiology of healthy relationship contributes to building a brain that is continuing to grow.

SHARE        Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Symphony of Science - The Music Video That's Actually Good for You! (2833 views) Symphony of Science is a music video series that remixes the powerful words of influential scientists and makes them sing about their subjects, through the use of auto-tuning techniques. A Glorious Dawn, garnered an unexpected amount of success and praise and amassed a million views in under a month.Since then, I have released nine videos on topics like evolution, the brain, space exploration, the big bang theory, and more.

SHARE        Sunday, April 3, 2011
Dick Bolles, "the most recognized job-hunting authority on the planet*" (3218 views) So, a funny thing happened to me, on the way to church. While just trying to help some campus ministers who were hanging on the ropes, I accidentally wrote a best-selling book.I didn't write it to be that.I didn't write it to make money, I only wrote it to be helpful. I didn't know that with its annual revisions (which I required) and with teaching from it all around the world, it would take over my whole life, [since] 1970.

SHARE        Friday, October 1, 2010
John Robbins on "The New Good Life - Living Better Than Ever In an Age of Less" (5836 views) One of the reasons I wrote my latest book is to provide people with simple, easy and inexpensive suggestions on how to raise their quality of life while lowering their cost of living, and at the same time lowering their ecological footprint. Learning to live with respect for ourselves and the whole earth community is no easy task in a culture that has become as out of balance as ours has.

SHARE        Monday, September 13, 2010
"Life in the Balance, A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia" (3675 views) The neural pathways are disorganized, like some fantastically complex highway system with overpasses and intersections,on-ramps and exit ramps,all leading nowhere.A thought forms, it gets sent down the pike, only to get lost in some cul-de-sac where it spins like a whirling dervish.Sometimes the thoughts will finally spin out of the cul-de-sac and find expression; often,they simply spin themselves out like a spent whirlwind.

SHARE        Thursday, July 29, 2010
Documentary film OPERATION: Emotional Freedom offers "The Answer" for treating veterans with PTSD (1812 views) This is the first feature-length documentary on energy psychology and along with featuring many of the preeminent practitioners in EP including Gary Craig, the founder of EFT and Carol Look, PhD the film is being sold and shown worldwide in over 30 countries. On July 21st the film was included in a presentation to the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

SHARE        Thursday, July 8, 2010
Omega Institute's Elizabeth Lesser on "Broken Open" and Personal Transformation, Part Two (2809 views) People don't think twice about having someone fix their computer or car, or they don't question going to the doctor when they feel bad, or to the gym when they want a trainer to help them get strong or lose weight. But when it comes to psychological or spiritual help, there's a general squeamishness. There's a cultural bias against paying someone to help us figure out things like relationships, purpose, feelings, grief.

SHARE        Thursday, July 1, 2010
Omega Institute's Elizabeth Lesser on "Broken Open" and Personal Transformation (1927 views) The hardest aspect of memoir is that it involves writing about not only oneself, but also about the people in one's life. My children, my parents, my husband, my ex-husband, my friends: none of them asked to be characters in my book. I am sure I caused discomfort for some of the folks in my life. But I did it for a reason that I still feel clear and good about.

SHARE        Thursday, January 14, 2010
Chatting with Uncommon Thinker and Best-Selling Author, Robert Fulghum, Part Four (1344 views) Well, I wish people could say that about themselves: I do what I can do as well as I can do. And that's my part. I speak for a lot of people when I say I can't fix it all. But I can still take care of my own corner. And my corner involves writing what I write and saying what I say and hoping that it's useful.

SHARE        Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Part Two: Chatting with Uncommon Thinker and Best-Selling Author, Robert Fulghum (1247 views) I don't have to be in one place anymore as a writer.I've got family in Seattle.I have friends now in many places. I feel so lucky that I can go and live in a place like Bali for several months and think, "Wow, mine is not the only way to live in the world." You know that abstractly. You live in a village, you experience it; that really jars you loose from your prejudices and preconceptions.

SHARE        Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Chatting with Uncommon Thinker and Best-Selling Author, Robert Fulghum, Part Three (1283 views) The band that got all the press was the Rock Bottom Remainders, which was a group of writers -" Stephen King, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, people like that. And a publishers' rep in San Francisco found out that we were musicians. It was her idea that we should put this band together and we would raise money for good causes and,in the meantime, have a lot of fun. I can tell you outrageous stories.

SHARE        Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Chatting with Uncommon Thinker and Best-Selling Author, Robert Fulghum (1736 views) You suddenly look in the mirror and think "Why, I are a writer now. "And if they'll take that stuff,maybe if I put my mind to it, I could write something else." So, the second book, It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It came along. And they traded #1 and #2 at the top of the NYT best-seller list for months. And so I thought, "Well, this is something I can do." Well, it'd be crazy not to see how far it would go.

SHARE        Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Part Three: Talking with Dr. Temple Grandin, Author of "Animals in Translation" (2186 views) I couldn't figure out why I didn't fit in. It's very important to get these young Asperger nerdy kids into these specialized activities where they're going to have peers who are also interested in computers or playing music or playing chess or building robots or anything. If I hadn't had my science teacher when I was in high school, I would have been in a real mess.

SHARE        Monday, October 26, 2009
Part Two, Talking with Dr. Temple Grandin, Author of "Animals in Translation" (1645 views) When I first started out in my career,I thought I could fix everything in the industry with engineering and designing a facility. I've now learned that I can only fix about half of things. Because the other half is management. I've been a big advocate of getting out and measuring handling. Then I can look at the numerical scores and ask, “Am I getting better or am I getting worse?”

SHARE        Sunday, October 25, 2009
Talking with Dr. Temple Grandin, Author of "Animals in Translation" (3120 views) People may wonder why it's so important to be humane when,in the end,the animals are still dead and we eat them.Well,it causes pain if you're not nice to them.You wouldn't say to this person “It only takes a second to yank out a tooth so we're not going to use any anesthetics.”It's really important to prevent suffering and animals are definitely capable of feeling pain and fear. There's absolutely no question about it.