by Minter Dial | Sep 17, 2007 | Education, Politics
Got turned on to this via a twit from my pal Mitch. The Youtube video is Mr Rogers’ talk with a US Senate sub-committee, in a meeting chaired by the notoriously “cold” Senator John Pastori, on May 1, 1969. It is worth watching the full 6 1/2 minutes...
by Minter Dial | Sep 17, 2007 | Business
I cogitate and agitate much about our (at least my own) relationship with time. One of my all-time favourite books is “The Art of Time” by Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber. I came up with an epithet that tends to summarize my (rather Anglo-Saxon) concept of...
by Minter Dial | Sep 11, 2007 | Education
How empathetic do you think you are? Apparently, you can now do an in-situ/impromptu style test anytime you see someone else yawning. If you are prone to yawn as well — i.e. that the yawn was contagious — a new study out suggests that, because not everyone...
by Minter Dial | Sep 9, 2007 | Business
Had a great conversation this morning with a friend, Mario, from Chicago. Running his own $100MM+ business, I asked him what was the key to his success. He said, after a pause, “take risks.” Then he recounted how he allowed one of his employees (from a...
by Minter Dial | Aug 5, 2007 | Politics, WWII
I had never been fully exposed to the downside of psychiatry until I visited this week the exposition “Pyschiatrie: la vérité sur ses abus” in Paris at the Hotel Castiglione, 40 rue deFaubourg St Honoré. Sponsored by Citizens’ Commission on Human...
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