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Creativity is a ‘zombie noun’
July 23rd, NYTimes Opionator published “Zombie Nouns” by Helen Sword: Take an adjective (implacable) or a verb (calibrate) or even another noun (crony) and add a suffix like ity, tion or ism. You’ve...
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The gaze of the zombie
“Gaze” is a psychoanalytic term: brought into popular usage by Jacques Lacan to describe the anxious state that comes with the awareness that one can be viewed. The psychological effect, Lacan argues,...
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Italian or Japanese – Drunk Zombies
Remember when Mitt Romney couldn’t decide if the country was going to Greece or Spain, well, apparently Forbes can’t decide if we are becoming Italian or Japanese. Already ZombieLaw mentioned Forbes:...
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Zombies in the Financial Times
Financial Times has posted two “zombie” articles today: “Companies: The rise of the zombie” by Michael Stothard and “Central banks face zombie nightmare” by Chris Giles. Those two writers also shared...
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We become zombie as robots do more creative work
Machines are beginning to do what we thought only humans could do; namely, creative work. Soon the robots may become even more human than we are (see human-sub-human) and leave us behind as an older...
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Neuroscience Zombies of the Wild Wesley Crusher
Readers of this blog should by now be familiar with Dr. Steven Schlozman, zombie research society psychiatrist. Dr. Schlozman has a piece today in the Guardian: “Americans love zombies because they...
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Chinese Zombies at Yale (Communists at Harvard)
“Chinese Yale Zombies” is an Associated Press story floating around many news sites. WashingtonPost: “Yale’s digital zombie mystery: Why has the Ivy drawn a battalion of dead accounts in China?“...
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Drezner’s Problems of “Apocalyptic Thinking”
Daniel Drezner’s TEDx talk from Binghamton University is available on Youtube: “Metaphor of the Living Dead: Daniel Drezner at TEDxBinghamtonUniversity” Drezner posted this link on his blog last week...
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Fear of Creative Teachers
ZombieLaw previously reported the story of the zombie class in an Oregon school cancelled by the superintendent’s response to parent concerns. Well it reached National at Cnet: “Zombie survival class...
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Teacher resigns rather than be STEM zombie
ZombieLaw previously wrote about “Fear of Creative Teachers“, and now in the Washington Post, a teacher’s resignation letter cites zombie curriculum as a reason, “Teacher’s resignation letter: ‘My...
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“different doesn’t have to be scary”
A commercial for GiffGaff a mobile network with tagline: “different doesn’t have to be scary” found at AdAge: Creativity Pick of the Day: “How Zombies Make the World a Better Place“
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Resident Zombie Cats at Teachers College
VentureBeat: “Columbia University is Full of Zombies!” by Ben Villarreal begins: Last fall, I moved to New York City to begin my doctoral studies in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia...
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The aroma of creativity in a world of testing
If the high stakes testing metaphor in “Hunger Games” wasn’t clear enough, the new movie “Divergent” helps to make the point clearer. Jason Stanford explains the movie “Divergent” depicts testing...
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Genworth zombie McInerney
Haute Living: “7 Tips on How to be Successful from Genworth CEO Tom McInerney” by Laura Schreffler: 7) Let them make zombie movies. A while ago, an employee came to me with an idea. He wanted to make a...
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