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CHICAGO MENSA MAGAZINE

“ChiMe”

 

 

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September

The Privatization of the Universe

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October

Opportunities in E-Learning

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November

If We Were Only Spirits

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December

New Age Underbelly –under-commented-upon issues in “New Age Spirituality”

2004—51

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January

Encyclopedia Galectica -- Start Trek meets the web--I'd just be happy if I could put my finger on a particular past TV program and see.  If somebody told me about a science program from last week I’d like to be able to see it!    The U of C library school catalog thought question saw the “information drawer” as static but  now what should be said when everybody else has the same drawer and inputs into it?

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February

The Ideal Curriculum for Today’s Kids

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March

Intellectual Indigestion: Ending Paper Glut

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April

Lessons from the Notebooks of Literary Authors

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May

Parachutes that Go Up! and other thrill sports

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June

How Has Your Reading Changed Since the Web?

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July

What Are Your Dreams for the World?  If You Don’t Lead, They May Well Never Happen

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August

The Problem-Solving Party  (use historic dialogue format).

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September

Lessons from Library School: biblionetrics, why people read, serving user convenience (call #s), where people go for information

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October

Unblocking When a Problem Persists

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November

Creative Sociograms

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December

Adventures of a Software Trainer

2005—52

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January

Scenes form  a Voiceover Studio

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February

What if You Were the Grand Monarch? (Because you are!)

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March

What Can We Really Know?  (And given that, What Shall We Do?)

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April

Social Expert Systems

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May

Family Trivial Pursuit and other Acknowledgement  Games

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June

The Roman Club

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July

Overcoming Political Alienation

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July

Why Do Healthy People Want to Die?

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August

You Owe It to the World

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September

Under-Acknowledged Life.  The Under-Acknowledged Family.  Family Encounter.

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October

Just the Highlights, Please:  Ideas and Adventures Too Good Not to Share

B

November

Motivation from Your PC

B

December

Thought as a Self-reinforcing Pleasure.  Pleasure and Pitfalls of “the life of the mind”.

2006—53

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January

We Have It All – and What are We Doing With It?

B

February

The Unitarian Nuage -- it's not “religious education”, it’s inculcating social egalitarianism as a primary value, but it has its limits.  Unitarians ignore stakeholders who HAVE power.

B

March

My Trip Around the World

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April

It’s Not What You Know, It’s What You Use That Counts

B

May

Is There Any Answer to Capitalism’s Self-Poisoning   Besides Socialism? (or is the correction of its excesses just a matter by its nature of periodic reforms?)

B

June

Magic:  My Chemistry Lab

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July

Ah, for the Monastic Life: the world of books and why I left it

B

August

The Sexualization of the US – economic drivers and their social consequences.  Is there an economically-driven solution?

B

September

The Story of Classical Mosquito!

B

October

“The Death of the Common Good”

B

November

Creative Intelligence vs. IQ

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December

Where is the Context in Our News?

2007—54

 

January

The 20/20 Foresight of Deb Hawkins’ Reflectivity

 

February

Intentional News Gathering – not reactive or passive – “How do I get my news?”

 

March

Living Out Tom Edison’s Attitudes

 

April

Adler’s Machine to Think With has been dwarfed by the PC

 

May

If You Had a Paid Researcher, What Would you Pay to Have Told to You?

 

June

Best e-books and Web-Potentiated Literature

 

July

Will Your Brain Outlive Your Body?

 

July

“Anatomy is Destiny” – What does IS mean today?

 

August

Where is Morality Going?

 

September

Civics Class Mythology

 

October

Breaking Our Information Mindset

 

November

“My Little Piece of Specious Dominion”

 

December

What Can We Give That Will Truly Immortalize Our Best?

2008—54

 

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