This ad from today’s Scottsdale Republic juxtaposed alongside the masthead begs for comment. I could say so much about how the journalism quality of the Republic is handcuffed to advertising revenue from development and the Chamber of Commerce, and the media paradigms of the last century. About how publisher John Zidich is forever bound to […]
Apophenia: Searching for Meaning
Happy 125th Birthday to Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922), Swiss psychoanalyst who popularized the use of patient’s interpretations of ink blot as a diagnostic tool. These techniques are now known generically as Rorschach tests. They utilize the underlying phenomenon of “apophenia,” which is the human tendency to see patterns in otherwise random data. Rorschach’s work developed out […]
First Day Jitters
Scottsdale Unified School District is back in session for the first full week of the school year. Gerry Niskern sends this remembrance and reminder: First Day Jitters They’re big, cumbersome and annoying actually. They block our view and slow us down. Every neighborhood is infested with them around the middle of August. They make us […]