Fuzzy thinking is just fuzzy thinking

Kevin Donnelly demonstrates just how fuzzy is his own thinking in Fuzzy thinking leads to failure in The Age Education Supplement today. His opening few paras aren't too bad. He's spot on when he quotes Ken Rowe's research that the main determinant of success at...

Fast Company on Whole Foods

Check out this Fast Company article on Whole Foods which, in Jason Kottke's words, "[is a] successful blend of hard-core capitalism and social responsibility." (via Kottke) Hopefully we will get around to some more commentary on this article a bit later today.

School is the worst years of your life

Michael Carr-Gregg has a thoughtful piece — Making Schools more Boy–Friendly — in The Age this morning. I value Carr-Gregg's ten suggestions. I note that most of them apply equally to girls. Perhaps he could have titled it "Making schools more student–friendly." Back...

OPUS International Conference

International Perspectives from Group Relations, Psychoanalysis and Systems Theory For Detailed Information, go to: the Opus Conference website. Friday 19 and Saturday 20 November 2004 Keynote Speakers: Gordon Lawrence who will be speaking from an organisational...

The Beautiful American

For some time now I have been thinking about a notion I like to call "The Beautiful American". I came back to it when I came across this article: The Empire of Fear: The American Political Psyche and the Culture of Paranoia from the online journal of Psycho-Social...

Birnbaum talks to James Wood

We were really quite taken by Robert Birnbaum's recent interview with Michael Lewis. Birnbaum continues his series on authors with this piece where he talks to James Wood... about his professional dilemmas, what makes for appealing style in fiction, and which stings...

Some US Political Trivia

Just came across Taegan Goddard's site. For those of you who like to keep up with trivia from the US political campaign, here are some recent comments he attributes to Democrat nomination Kerry's daughter Alex: Top three things said by Kerry's daughter, Alex, and...

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