Entries from September 2009

September 18, 2009

A Super-Recognizer I’m Not

Please Don’t Hate Me Because I Don’t Know Who You Are! A recent article in Harvard Magazine described how a team of psychologists has identified a subsection of people as “super-recognizers.”  These lucky few have an above average ability to identify others by their facial features.  These are not me. In fact, as I read this [...]

September 4, 2009

Let’s Make a Pact

We’ll all benefit if we agree to stop raising the stakes My wonderful niece was out here visiting from New York and we started talking about the Public Theater production of Twelfth Night this summer with Anne Hathaway and Raul Esparza and how we both desperately wanted to see it.  The Public Theater’s very noble [...]