Exploring Passion, Creativity, and Intelligence
As more information is coming out about the terrorist siblings responsible for the Boston bombing, some interesting details are emerging about the elder brother, Tamerlan Tzarnaev, that identify him as a gifted (but clearly troubled) man. While it has already been Read More …
My review of Jen Merrill’s book, If This is a Gift, Can I Send It Back? Surviving in the Land of the Gifted and Twice-Exceptional, is published in the just-released issue of the Roeper Review (volume 35, number 2). I Read More …
This story represents a fine example of innovative and creative giftedness. Joe Landolina, a gifted junior at New York University, has developed a synthetic compound that “jumpstarts” the healing and clotting process, stemming bleeding in both mild and serious wounds. Read More …
In this past Tuesday’s episode of Fox Broadcasting’s The New Girl (titled “TinFinity”), the lead character Jess (Zoey Deschanel) meets a handsome and gifted professional football player, Jax McTavish (Steve Howey). Jess is smitten by the charismatic man until she Read More …
My classmate in the Gifted and Talented doctoral program at the University of North Texas, Joe Russell, demonstrating his burger overexcitability. That man is not exaggerating his love for that burger.
Below find a trailer to The Philosophers, an upcoming film that might be of interest to the gifted community. The synopsis: At an international school in Jakarta, a brilliant but mysterious philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors Read More …
I am a big fan of Jim Webb. Both he and Linda Silverman have made the greatest impression on me since I began my gifted studies, primarily because of their focus on the social and emotional needs of the gifted Read More …
Minnesota public radio’s Daily Circuit show featured a program on child prodigies last December. Featured guests included Andrew Solomon, the author of Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity and David Shenk, the author of The Genius Read More …
In what represents a potentially major venue to showcase the world of the gifted and talented, actor Jim Parsons, who plays Dr. Sheldon Cooper on CBS’ Big Bang Theory, is collaborating with Radical Media to executive produce a new television Read More …
I am currently taking a class on creativity for my doctoral program, and we had an interesting conversation last week concerning the challenge of defining creativity. Everybody has a differing opinion on how to define it, and the argument in Read More …