The Structure Whisperer

Last fall, 27-year-old Ohad Ben-Yaakov was injured in an accident at his part-time job, and he died after two weeks in a coma. Ben-Yaakov wasn’t married, nor was he in a…

I’m not a big fan of video games, but during the last break, my poor sister-in-law had to suffer as our family gradually became more and more addicted to the game “Angry Birds” on her Iphone. At the…

Here is an early post from a new blog, This Week in Sociology, founded by Corey Dolgan, PhD, director of Stonehill College’s new Office of Community-Based learning.

By Jesse Walker

A 9.0 earthquake, a 33-foot tsunami, a series of crises at their battered nuclear plants: The people of Japan have withstood the last week with admirable tenacity. There’s no shortage of lessons the rest of the world can learn from what we’ve been seeing. Here are three of them.

1. People are resilient.

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2. A society’s resilience increases with its wealth.

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3. Resilient policies evolve; brittle policies are imposed.

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by Space Invaders

Last week, fellow editor Nathan Jurgenson made a post entitled “Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality” with a call for more concept work surrounding this topic. I…