While Richard Feynman, the renowned Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist, was teaching at Cornell University in the 1940′s, he hit a low spot: “At Cornell, I’d work on preparing my courses, and I’d go over to the library a lot … Continue reading
At my suggestion, my book group has been reading Jane McGonigal’s Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. I have to admit that at first glance, the title struck me … Continue reading
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In the winter of 1969-70, I was a sophomore at Uni High, a lab school for smart kids on the campus of the University of Illinois, and I was flunking math. Everyone knew it, too, due to an episode in … Continue reading