Josh had a vague memory of his mother, he seems to recall her in the kitchen baking something, telling him not to make a mess as he licked the spoon she used to stir the mix for a chocolate cake. The details are not clear to him. He remembers her reading to him before bed […]
Baking Calculator
A friend of mine going to culinary school asked me if I could make a calculator for one of his recipes. The goal was that based on the amount of bread used the rest of the ingredients would auto-populate. I just worked one out in a few minutes, this is what it looks like: […]
Thoughts on Promoting Lecture
I’ve written in the past on games attempting to encourage reading on one of my articles entitled “Creating a Generation of Winners” The article goes over a project from game developer Jesse Schell and its work called Lexica. The interesting thing about his game is that he isn’t trying to replace reading books with game […]
Thoughts on Gamification Part 1
Note: The following writings is a flow of consciousness, not intended as a research document and thus I’ve kept much of the references out. Most of these can be found on my other writings. You can tell that the industry is filled with idiots and charlatans just by the way they explain their conclusions. […]
Quick Points on Epigenetics
I recently heard a woman argue that “science” has proven that thoughts can change DNA, and they used this as a premise for new age thinking and the belief that wishful thinking has power over the physical world. It was obvious she didn’t even know how to structure an argument properly, and I don’t suffer […]
Tongue Position
Interesting short video, claims that the healthy position for keeping your tongue is resting in palate, as if you’ll make the “mmmmm” sound, and this causes huge heath consequences, including changing the position of your teeth.
“Dear God, Please Give Me a Thousand Days like This!”
Federico was the son of a rich Venetian merchant in the early 1500’s. Proud and arrogant, with the sense of entitlement in a two year old who will shout “mine” with an authoritarian finger to everything he lays his eyes on. Growing bored of Venice, and wanting to explore the world while he was […]
The Map is not the territory
The use of games for learning is limited to creating an erroneous tacit knowledge, but a scaffolding that will be improved in the real world.
The Goose and The Horse
A goose who was plucking grass upon a common thought herself affronted by a horse who fed near her; and in hissing accents, thus addressed him: “I am certainly a more noble and perfect animal than you, for the whole range and extent of your faculties is confined to one element.” “I can walk […]
Carl the Earthworm and the Power of Positive Thinking
There was once an earthworm colony that had happily lived for generations in the green section separating a street and a parking lot: Life was good for them. Constant humidity, shade, and nutrient reinforcement in the soil have seen them prosper. Through generations they developed a culture that reinforced the power of positivity, for […]