DrummerMan got one for his birthday last month.  According to his wife, he's obsessed with it: There's an art company in Switzerland called PANart that produced a haunting musical instrument called a Hang.  The inventors insist it isn't a...

I have two stepsons: Drummer Man & Scholar Man. I used to refer to Drummer Man's beloved as La Novia, but back last summer, they married, so she became Drummer Woman.  The former La Novia came to the relationship with a toddling girl (Dancing...

David E. Johnson, MSW, LICSW,  writes a blog called Dare-to-Dream.us. He has written a series on emotional intelligence: Emotional Intelligence for Personal Growth Part I Mindfulness: Emotional Intelligence for Personal Growth Part...

IDEA is the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act". The first version was enacted in 1975, and revolutionized education for children with disabilities. However, the federal mandate to educate children with disabilities has never been fully...

Dean Burnett, a UK neuroscientist and comedian, has a thing going -- letters from science to, well unscientific enterprises and belief systems.  #1 was "Dear Media, from Science"  Science has written to scientology (#13) , anti-vaccination folk (#8)...