Last month I took an afternoon to go visit a group of shut-ins who live out of town. I started with a visit to a 101 year old woman, followed by a visit to a 94 year old man and his wife, then it was off to see a 99 year old man. And I…
An remarkable collection of forty samovars is on display at The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis now through January 24, 2016. A samovar or “self-boiler” is a metal urn with a spigot used to boil water for making tea. The water is boiled by kindling a fire in a metal tube that fits inside the urn. Although…
One of the three guiding principles of The Research Project is finding research that brings new understanding to previously held beliefs. The research I’m sharing this week has brought me to a new understanding of one of my beliefs. For years I wondered why hundreds of people didn’t go to jail when the housing bubble burst,…
By now it is a familiar routine; get your car serviced, spend the night in a hotel, call customer service for help with a problem, and a few hours or days later you get an email asking you to complete a survey to evaluate your experience. But what if, after making a court appearance, you…
Mirror Neurons 