Keeping True in the Disinformation Age
(Part 1) By William E. Newnam Given the massive proliferation of information access and opportunity, we are confronted with a world...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Jul 21, 20204 min read
Civilization vs. Corona-Zombies
It’s really hot outside. The air is febrile with COVID, global warming, intolerance and revolution. At least the fireworks have finally...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Jun 23, 20204 min read
The Presence of Chaos
Is there a word to recount the visceral confusion of being alive in this time? Fickle emotions splinters like brittle cracked glass....
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Leigh W. Jerome
Jun 4, 20203 min read
This Is Our Heart Still Beating
We raise our fists in protest. We raise our hands in peace. We feel change burning in our hearts and in the streets and in the very...
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Leigh W. Jerome
May 11, 20205 min read
The Reckoning
The virus doesn’t care about your job. The virus doesn’t care about your parents or your children or your friends. The virus doesn’t care...
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Leigh W. Jerome
May 4, 20204 min read
The COVID Edge: Requiem or Renaissance
The outlook seems bleak. An allusion to a “Dark Ages”, that is a period of intellectual deficiency, social upheaval and barbarity, feels...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Apr 20, 20204 min read
What If There's A Wolf at Our Door?
It’s a scary world out there. Anything could happen… We’ve always known this. So we’ve faced our dread; looked despair in the face;...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Apr 13, 20205 min read
The Discovery of Opportunity within the Crisis of COVID
Every crisis (from the Greek "to separate, to sift") brings opportunity - a time to appraise and keep only that which is worth keeping....
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Leigh W. Jerome
Apr 6, 20204 min read
Can We Press Reset?
The reality of our global troubles had become unnerving before COVID-19. Every day we’d wake up to news of growing inequalities, global...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Mar 30, 20203 min read
Chain Reactions and Complex Problems
In the early blush of the Information Age, we possessed naïve optimism that global connectivity and technological progress would be able...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Mar 9, 20203 min read
Community in the Age of Pandemics
We knew it was just a matter of time. As we have expanded into an interconnected global community, the potential for novel microbial...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Mar 2, 20203 min read
Bringing Storytelling To Life To Build a Better World
The world we experience is not exactly the real world. Human experience is a mental construction, mediated though our physical senses....
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Leigh W. Jerome
Feb 24, 20203 min read
Fighting Fake News with Art + Science
In the United States, adults spend more than 11 hours a day consuming media in some form. On the Internet alone there are over 1.8...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Feb 17, 20203 min read
Amplifying Our Voices: The Emergence of "Knowledge Art"
Every artist has unique strategies, techniques and a process to sway the muse and flourish; however, the magic of inspiration and the...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Feb 10, 20203 min read
Transdisciplinary Spaces for (R)Evolution
For the most part, we are all defenders of making the world a better place. Where things break down is when we choose up sides regarding...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Feb 3, 20202 min read
So Much Information - So Little Uptake
The amount of information that floods us every day is enormous and that volume is growing exponentially. The information superhighway...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Jan 9, 20203 min read
Art + Science = Collaborative Action
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.” (Albert Einstein) Have you ever been working on a problem and gotten...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Jan 9, 20202 min read
The Stories We Tell Matter
Basically, we all walk around with a bunch of stories in our heads about the way the world works. We have stories for everything – how to...
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Leigh W. Jerome
Jan 9, 20203 min read
Does Complexity Make Us Apathetic?
I’m not sure when the paralysis first hit me – in the aftermath of another mass shooting; watching a rail thin polar bear huddled with...
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