Click Here to Read: The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say by Carl Zimmer in the New York Times on February 2, 2017.
Lyrical Tuesday: The Fool on the Hill
The Beatles
Writer(s): Paul McCartney, John LennonDay after day, alone on the hill
The man with the foolish grin
is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he’s just a fool
And he never gives an answer
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Movie Monday: Toni Erdmann
Click Here to Read: Maren Ade’s award-winning Toni Erdmann: Slaves to modern global business By Bernd Reinhardt on the World Socialist Website on January 9, 2017.
Click Here to Read: Maren Ade: ‘Toni Erdmann’s humour comes out of a big desperation’ The German writer-director on how her dad inspired her surprise hit comedy-drama, why the Golden Globes was bizarre and why she won’t do a US remake on the Guardian website on January 21, 2017. Continue reading Movie Monday: Toni Erdmann
POETRY MONDAY: February 6, 2017
Betty Lies
No, she doesn’t. It’s pronounced Lees, in case you wondered, and she’s one of the most truthful poets I know. Full disclosure: I’ve known and admired Betty Lies as a poet, educator and colleague for many years and in fact even blurbed one of her books, The Day After I Drowned (Cherry Grove Collections, 2010). I had the occasion to re-read it recently, and it resonated more strongly than ever. This is what poetry does for us – one of the many things it
does. For me, right now, having suffered a painful loss, her poems were as good as a grief support group. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: February 6, 2017
Psychology Sunday: Stephen D. Reicher
Click Here to Read: Stephen D. Reicher on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: Stephen David Reicher on the University of St. Andrews website.
Click Here to Read: Stories by Stephen David Reicher in the Scientific American.
Click Here to View: After the Referendum – Professor Stephen Reicher on YouTube.
Click Here to Listen to: Stephen Reicher on Crowd Psychology By Social Science Bites on February 26, 2016. Continue reading Psychology Sunday: Stephen D. Reicher
