After struggling with the arrangement of her book of poems, Rachelle Toarmino turned to her longtime love of music to find an answer. She reflects on what makes or breaks an album — its unwritten rules — such as spreading out hits and interspersing them with mood-establishing tracks to offer relief, and found that by assigning songs to her poems she “started making a mixtape”, culminating in her book becoming a curated ‘playlist’ of poems. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
