Mr. Rogers’ Mom Was on to Something Fred Rogers’ mother comforted him when he was a child by challenging him to “Look for the helpers”, during a crisis. Mr. Rogers was a young boy in the 1930’s , when unemployment was high, the Dustbowl was driving farmers out of Oklahoma, and the news from Europe…

Greetings, Gesturers! Is this physics or simple math? I’ve been thinking a lot about how a part fits with a whole lately. Not as in ratio, but the Aristotelian thought that a whole is often greater a sum of its parts. Human beings are a great example: we’re made up of a collection of cells…

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