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Sausage-loving philanthropists square off to take on 20-foot bratwursts for a good cause on March 20 at Ypsi’s Wurst Bar

By Mark | March 3, 2014

Remember how, a few days ago, I told you that I was working on a top-secret, meat-related project? Well, I can now share the details… Here’s the press release: March 3, 2014 WURST CHALLENGE announced for March 20 in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Sausage-loving philanthropists square off to take on 20-foot bratwursts for a good cause. FLY […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Local Business, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 20 feet of meat, Ann Arbor Derby Dimes, arts education, bratwurst, call to action, Cre Fuller, creativity, Dragon's Milk Reserve, eating challenges, Education, FLY Children's Art Center, FLY Creativity Lab, fundraisers, Jesse Kranyak, Man vs. Food, meat, Megan Miramontes, Melissa Wingett, Monkey King, moon landing, Morgan Cox, Paul Schreiber, philanthropy, sausage, Wurst Bar | 4 Comments

The Creativity Crisis

By Mark | July 19, 2010

I wasn’t aware, until reading this article in Newsweek just now, that we had an accepted scientific way in which to evaluate and measure creativity. I also didn’t know that, since the 1990’s, the creativity scores of American students have been steadily inching downward. I’m not surprised, of course, given the trend in education toward […]

Posted in Education, Rants | Also tagged Bush administration, creativity, Department of Education, E. Paul Torrance, innovation, Jonathan Plucker, Kyung Hee Kim, no child left behind, scantron, teaching, teaching for the test, teaching in public school, trends in American education | 13 Comments

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