I am finding it useful to think about today, the here and now, as the future that is present. It’s a notion that comes from my days teaching Creativity at Duke, 2002 to 2016. Early on I started asking students to think about their futures 20 years hence.
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In some North Carolina houses, this is a time of empty rooms and empty spaces. Children, so long...
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This Just In – The heat has broken and the air feels crisp and fresh when a breeze comes through. Autumn is just under a month away, but it feels like we can see it from here.
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On Wednesday, I cried at the news of the school shooting at a church in Minneapolis. I cried in grief for the children and their families, but I also had tears of anger. Why do these school shootings keep happening?! I don’t know why.
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When North Carolina and TCU agreed to play a two-game football series almost a decade ago, in 2016, Larry Fedora was the head coach of the Tar Heels and Gary Patterson was the head coach of the Horned Frogs.
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During the last radio show with Charles Johnson, founder of The Bump Serum, I asked him to find his creative and entrepreneurial types using this framework.
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Where does our garbage go? After you take it out of your house into your bin and roll it to the curb, the garbage truck comes to get it and rolls on out of your neighborhood. But then where does it go?
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We’re heading into the last days of summer and the first days of school. Here are a few reminders on how to stay safe when enjoying some downtime or heading to class.
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The Great Southeast Pollinator Census was founded by the University of Georgia Extension in 2017 and has grown into a community science project taking place across five states including North Carolina.
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I’m not what you’d call a sports tourist. You won’t catch me queuing up to see the iconic sports venues where someone might have thrown a ball exceptionally well in 1983. But if a half-mad poet once wept into his whiskey at a forgotten pub? That’s my Super Bowl.
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