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![]() Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger August 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN THIS ISSUE: * Quote of the Month * Announcements, Books, News Items * Events, Workshops * FEATURE ARTICLE: Opportunities Coming at Us, by Win Wenger * Comments, Feedback Win Wenger on Lesson Plans Win Wenger on Inventions * Organizational Notes * Links ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTE OF THE MONTH We live in a richly holographic universe, everything affecting everything else, everything relating to everything else. Despite all that is now known in our civilization, we are only a few steps, or a few observations, away from centuries-worth of new science and new civilization, no matter what direction we turn to look. - Win Wenger ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ANNOUNCEMENTS, BOOKS, NEWS ITEMS ~~~ WELCOME to all new members who have joined us recently. We hope to hear from you and to give you much food for thought. Back issues available upon request. Just add the month to the subject line: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=BackIssues Or see the online archives: http://www.winwenger.com/strmlist.htm ~~~ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| PROJECT RENAISSANCE'S NEW COREBOOKS www.winwenger.com/corebook.htm A series of compact handbooks of Win Wenger's key techniques. The first four volumes are now in print and easy to order from the publisher: * SUPER SKILLS FOR STUDENTS by Isa McKechnie * WIN WENGER'S IMAGE-STREAMING by Charles Roman * END WRITER'S BLOCK FOREVER! by Mark Bossert, Win Wenger * DYNAMIC TEACHING by Harman Benda and Win Wenger Order from the CoreBook storefront: www.lulu.com/ProjRen - great gifts! |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ~~~ WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE, REALLY http://www.livescience.com/health/041108_Lost_Dreams.html Analyzed as portents of the future and windows to the subconscious, dreams have fascinated human beings since the dawn of recorded history. Their purpose, from a strictly cognitive point of view, remains a puzzle. But a rare instance of dream loss in a patient with localized brain damage may pinpoint the where, if not the why, of dreaming.
~~~ BAD SINGING LEADS TO VIRTUOSO PERFORMANCES IN BIRDS http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050216_birds_sleep.html Baby birds learning to sing tend to scramble their tunes upon waking, but their jazzy morning improvisations actually advance their progress later in the day and over time, new research shows. ... The results have implications for how other animals learn and even how young children learn things like how to speak and other tasks they use for the rest of their lives. ______ Win Wenger comments: Looks like intentional improvisation is a key to this study. The more improv, the more feedback, the more "rapid-flow-with-feedback" as in www.winwenger.com/feed1.htm, and the better learning as a result. With baby finches that susceptible to canned songs, that audio-dominant, one imagines that, like Mozart and Beethoven, they have audio-recorders in their heads where we need the fully externalized loop. Examine this cited study and see what you think. ~~~ AN EXERCISE TO INCREASE PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE http://nlpschool.blogspot.com/2007/01/exercise-to-increase-physical.html Edward Hines has developed a very simple exercise he calls "kinesthetic streaming" to build awareness of the structures of the body. Parallel to this is an awareness of emotions, energy and metaphors within the body. Finally there is a linking between awareness of these structures and the ability to move, and therefore act, in the world. Powerful stuff! ______ Win Wenger comments: Read Edward Hines' brilliant piece. He is correct. Several reasons why: 1) One of the two main laws of neurological development: first you perceive, then you are able to act through what you perceive. Example: how difficult it is to use your foot for any skilled task when you've let your leg "go to sleep," but regain (or gain) your abilities there once you have full circulation and feeling back in there. Conversely, the better your sensory perception and sensory discriminations, the more and better skills you can manifest. Further, establish more and better brain circuits for one task such as physical skills, and these usually serve also for other kinds of skills, including intellectual. This law is a corollary of our old friend - 2) The Law of Effect, the main law of behavior. Because if you don't get feedback on your actions, you lose them. See this article on the Feedback Loop, www.winwenger.com/feed1.htm , and the case for Portable Memory Bank in www.winwenger.com/ebooks/bright2.htm . 3) The same law extends to matters of health. When do most parts of our body get attention from us - when all is well and they are functioning normally, or when they are injured or ill and malfunctioning? - And we get more of what we reinforce. Edward Hines' method - go study it and try it out - is an excellent way to reinforce, instead, the well state throughout your body, not "merely" some of your intelligence! ~~~ EATING BLUEBERRIES SLASHES COLON CANCER RISK BY 57 PERCENT www.newstarget.com/021951.html A compound found in blueberries shows promise of preventing colon cancer, according to a new study. Scientists at Rutgers University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted a joint study on animals, and found that the compound - called pterostilbene - lessened pre-cancerous lesions and inhibited genes involved in inflammation. ~~~ SWISS NAME TOYOTA'S PRIUS THE WORLD'S GREENEST CAR http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL2733658020070728 The Swiss government gave the Prius the highest green rating in a draft study evaluating the environmental impact of 6,000 different cars, including carbon dioxide (C02) emissions which contribute to global warming. ~~~ 'LUCKY CAMERA' RIVALS HUBBLE'S CLARITY www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_030611.html or www.space.com/businesstechnology/070905_tw_lucky_camera.html Earth's fluctuating atmosphere not only causes stars to twinkle but also blurs the photos of astronomers trying to snap clear images of the cosmos. Sensitive cameras can beat the blurriness, but they produce grainy 'noise' that can make images nearly unusable. On the other hand, space telescopes such as the Hubble avoid the problem by orbiting above Earth's atmosphere altogether, yet they carry billion-dollar price tags. Using the new "Lucky Imaging" system, a team of astronomers claims to have taken pictures of stars twice as sharp as those produced by Hubble. Said Craig Mackay, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge in England who led the research, "To produce images sharper than Hubble from the ground is a remarkable achievement by anyone's standards," adding that its estimated cost of about $100,000 - less than a hundredth of a percent of the Hubble space telescope's growing price tag - is an even greater achievement. _________________ Win Wenger comments: Every university can afford one, just like every African can afford that refrigerator-without-electricity I've been remarking on these past several years. Such ingenious opportunities are lying all around us, probably numbering in the thousands, nearly every one of them a neat revolution if someone picks up on it. Our next Invention-On-Demand workshop, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, February 1-3, 2008, may come up with a few of these beauties. ~~~ Translators wanted - in any language, to translate selected contents of the Project Renaissance website, the new CoreBooks series, and certain books by Win Wenger. Please contact Win at mailto:wwenger101@aol.com if you are able and interested in collaborating on these projects. ........................................................................ EVENTS ~~~ THE FIREBIRD: Creativity, Danger and Transformation An evening of Story and Song Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:00PM-? (however long you stay!) Cleveland Park Club House 3433 33rd Place, NW Washington, DC 20008 Presented by: Seth Kahn, change leadership specialist and master storyteller www.SethKahan.com and Laura Baron, award-winning singer/songwriter www.LauraBaronMusic.com Join us for wine, food and fun...and bring your business cards! $20 at the door - $15 with a dish to share Please RSVP to Michelle James, mailto:michelle@CreativeEmergence.com Capitol Creativity Network http://www.capitolcreativitynetwork.com ~~~ January 4 - February 22, 2008 A Professional and Personal Development Program Led by Michelle James, CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence A One-of-a-Kind Program - Practical, tangible outcomes and offerings will emerge from the inside-out over the course of 7 weeks. 4 Fridays over 7 weeks - 9:00am to 5:00pm - in McLean, VA January 4, January 18, February 8 and February 22 If you have to miss a day you will get an individual make-up session. $1200 for independent consultants/self employed/entrepreneurs. $1500 organizational rate. Early Bird Rate: $100 off if paid in full by December 24. This program is limited to only 6 people and fills up each time - $100 non-refundable deposit reserves your space. Credit cards accepted. Payment plans also available - call 703-760-9009. For complete details and registration, go to http://creativeemergence.com/page10.html Email: michelle@creativeemergence.com - Phone: 703-760-9009 The Center for Creative Emergence - www.creativeemergence.com ~~~ February 1-3, 2008 - Invention-on-Demand Training Workshop with Win Wenger and Chuck Roman, in Gaithersburg, MD. www.winwenger.com/iodtrain08.htm ~~~ May 23-29, 2008 - Annual Double Festival - Mark your calendar now! 16th Annual Conference on Creative Problem-Solving Methods and Enhanced/Accelerated Learning Techniques and Spring Workshops of Project Renaissance www.winwenger.com/upcoming.htm#DF ~~~ ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Feature Article: OPPORTUNITIES COMING AT US, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE by Win Wenger mailto:wwenger101@aol.com Ours is the Axial Age. Things are happening fast enough now that we get to live with some of the consequences of our own decisions and actions. Not only individually and as families, but as communities, states or provinces, corporations, nations, and humanity as a whole, we are snowballing into opportunities both negative and positive. The positive opportunities are greater than you think. They stagger the imaginations even of the writers of science fiction. You don't want to miss out on these!!! The negative you've been seeing in the news, or alluded to in back corners of the news. A lot of it has already happened, even though we've barely begun the process of encountering issues and problems affecting not only our comfort and well-being but our very survival. I don't need to catalog these here; just let me invite your attention to the Winsights article, "Frog Warming" (February 2000). www.winwenger.com/part38.htm I invite you to reflect upon how much "frog warming" you have already undergone since February 2000. Do you think it's over? Do you think that this "frog warming" is due to ease off and quit, or that the process has but barely begun and is accelerating? Please note that we are also swimming in a sea of positive opportunities. From time to time YOU have the opportunity to take matters in your own hands and turn them toward more favorable directions. Your not doing so is also a choice, an action with consequences for which you are responsible. This is not a lecture - I am not saying what you "ought to" be doing or not doing. It is an observation helping to underscore my own conviction that our "prognosis," over these next few years and beyond, is greatly improved to the extent that more people become more able to solve the problems they find themselves in - and become more inclined TO solve the problems they find themselves in. Thus came about my purpose of finding and developing effective methods of problem-solving which are as easy as possible, enabling a far wider range and number of human individuals to become effective problem- solvers and creative achievers. What are some easy problem-solving methods YOU know of? Can you share them with us (email to Win Wenger, mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) with permission to republish with due credits and links? Can you learn some of these easy methods yourself, and then practice using them to improve your own situation and what you find around you? Can you try DEAM - www.winwenger.com/deam.htm - on a problem or question today? Can you put a notepad or audio recorder by your bedside tonight, ready for morning use? Can you immediately pick up a notepad or recorder and pocket this for use? Can you begin the process this week of exploring the universe of Image-Streaming? Of the techniques you already know - tomorrow, can you show one of them to a friend or to someone whom you care about, help them learn its use while they are solving THEIR own problem or situation? Are any of these things just too hard to do? Or not worth your while to do? Your abilities, as are ours, are very considerable. Our resolve and will may mostly yet remain to be demonstrated, and much of our potential for experiencing high rewards.
------------------------------------ To send feedback privately to Win Wenger, email to: mailto:wwenger101@aol.com?subject=Opportunities To send your comments about this article to The Stream, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Opportunities |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ........................................................................ COMMENTS and FEEDBACK ~~~ Win Wenger writes: A SUGGESTED AID IN PLANNING LESSONS: ( ) 1. Does the lesson you are planning have a key point or key understanding? What IS the key point? ( ) 2. Each key lesson point can be turned into a question. But what type of question? ( ) 3. The type of question asked, if Socratically or in a buzzgroup, determines what students have to dig into in order to make their responses. Note the discussion of this point in the article at www.winwenger.com/part63.htm ( ) 4. What the student digs into and makes concrete response to will determine the behavior, the trait that's being reinforced in each student. (See article linked above.) ( ) 5. Is focused discussion in each buzz group the best form of interaction for enabling students to respond successfully to that key point or question? What are other options on that point? ( ) 6. Each question, each key point of your lesson(s) has an approach which lays whatever basis is needed in order for the student to be able to make response(s) successfully. What do you need to add to enable your student to successfully meet your challenge? How do you know what your students will need from you for this, that they don't already have? How best can you capitalize on what they DO have? - Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) ~~~ Win Wenger writes: INVENTIONS WE WISH WE HAD MADE: 1) A refrigerator without electricity. - Two clay jars, one set within the other, the space between inner and outer jar filled with mud, straw, gravel and water. The clean dry inner jar is cooled by evaporation to refrigerator temperatures. In a world a third of whose inhabitants go to bed hungry every night and a third of world food supply is spoiled and wasted, this is the kind of invention we most want to be making. 2) Mosquito netting pre-sprayed with Citronella bug repellent. - Save potentially tens of thousands of lives, and hundreds of thousands of instances of health, in a world where more than a million per year die of malaria. Similarly, T-shirts pre-sprayed with such repellent. There must be hundreds of equally simple, equally obvious inventions sitting there, staring us in the face, each of which could save lives and human wellbeing, and each of which you and we CAN make. With or without formal training in Invention-On-Demand, help yourself now to some of the newer tools-for-understanding to have come along since I wrote "Discovering The Obvious." ( www.winwenger.com/dto.htm ) Among these: * "DEAM" (Double-Entry A-Ha Method, as set forth for you on the Project Renaissance website at http://www.winwenger.com/deam.htm ) * "Evoked Sidebands" (which incorporates DEAM as a first step, at www.winwenger.com/evoked.htm ) * The "CrabApple" and "Woodswalk" problem-solving methods you can see here: www.winwenger.com/part56.htm * and that great energizer for group experiencing, "Windtunnel" www.winwenger.com/part72.htm Some of us may have missed the opportunities afforded by the Project Renaissance workshop, Invention-On-Demand, last year. None of us need miss the wave and flow of opportunities that the current demand for New inventions presents. Our next Invention-on-Demand workshop will be held February 1-3, 2008, in the Washington DC area. See the events calendar, www.winwenger.com/upcoming.htm, for details. Register now. - Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) ~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To send your comments to The Stream for possible publication here, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Comments ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ORGANIZATIONAL NOTES ~~~ IMAGE-STREAMING PARTNERS Project Renaissance is organizing a partners' bureau or real-time chat resource online via Skype, msn or yahoo messenger for people looking for partners with whom to do live Image-Streaming. If you're interested in joining this resource, please send your contact information and preferences, such as time of day, language, type of Image-Streaming, and we will add you to a cross-reference index of partners to talk online. Contact: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=PartnersOnline If you have already signed up, we will let you know as soon as the program goes live. ~~~
INTEREST GROUPS * ALBUQUERQUE, NM - Gaylord Galston ( mailto:logarms@yahoo.com ) wonders if there is anyone in the Albuquerque area with whom he can practise Image-Streaming. * BALTIMORE - Gerald Hawkins offers interested parties to contact him at mailto:gerald.hawkins@gmail.com about starting a problem-solving and idea-testing group in the Baltimore, Maryland, area. * CHICAGO - Nick Costello ( mailto:padrerock@rcn.com ) is interested in attending meetings of Project Renaissance members in the Chicago area. * DETROIT - Eric Bottorff ( mailto:pebottorff@gmail.com ) is interested in attending meetings of Project Renaissance members in the Ypsilanti area. * LOS ANGELES - Ray Croney ( mailto:croneyr@hotmail.com ) seeks Image- Streamers in the L.A. area. * NEW JERSEY - Donald Morrison ( mailto:donaldmorrison@gmail.com ) is interested in joining an Image-Streaming group in the Bloomfield, NJ, area. * TEXAS - Harry L. Beam, 6305 Poly Webb Road, Arlington, TX 76016 would like to meet with other members of Project Renaissance in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas. * TAMILNADU, INDIA - Raj Kumars ( mailto:rajikumars2000@yahoo.co.in ) would like to practice Image-Streaming with a live listener in his area. * VENICE, ITALY - Franco Tiveron ( mailto:franco.tiveron@gmail.com ) is interested in learning and practicing Image-Streaming, in Italian or English. Please contact him if you are already knowledgeable in this technique and in the Venice area. ~~~ TOPICAL INTEREST GROUPS: Our membership is large and diverse, and many of you have expressed an interest in communicating with other members who share your topic of concern or research interest. If you'd like us to share your email address with other interested members, and to supply theirs to you, please email your name, email address and subject/topic to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=InterestGroups Your communications will be private. ~~~ ADDRESS CHANGE? If your email address changes or your email box is full or your spam filter blocks us, we can't get The Stream to you. Please, before that happens, make sure you notify us of any change and put winwenger.com on your safe senders list. Write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=AddressChange Please do not use the unsubscribe link in such a case, then entering a new subscribe message. This makes extra work for you and your registrar and may result in deletion of all your personal information from our records. Put any other updated information you'd like us to have about you into the same address-change message. ~~~ SUBSCRIBER OR MEMBER? If you currently only subscribe to The Stream, you can upgrade your participation in Project Renaissance to full membership, free. Membership in Project Renaissance entitles members to additional benefits. If you're not yet a member, please register now, here: www.winwenger.com/regmem.htm or from the link on the homepage, www.winwenger.com . ~~~ DUPLICATE MAILING? If you received two (or more?) copies of this issue of The Stream, please let us know by replying to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=duplicate ~~~ HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE... * The long-established, popular Image-Streaming egroup is here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imagestream - requires Yahoo sign-in. * Submit articles, comments or questions for possible inclusion in The Stream: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=TotheEditor * Send questions or comments about the website, www.winwenger.com , to the webmaster, mailto:kate@gamepuzzles.com ........................................................................ LINKS * Back issues of THE STREAM by email upon request from mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=BackIssues * Index of feature articles in The Stream archives: www.winwenger.com/strmlist.htm Starting in January 2007, the archived copies have a special cover photo masthead courtesy of Elan Sun Star. Do take a look - they're gorgeous and restorative. * Archived copies of Capital Ideasmiths are here: www.winwenger.com/Capitalidea/capidea1.htm * Project Renaissance homepage: www.winwenger.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSUBSCRIBE: If you do not wish to continue receiving this newsletter from Project Renaissance, please send an email to mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=TheStream-unsubscribe ~~~ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Project Renaissance home page | The Stream Index |