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DEFINING WISDOM AWARDS ANNOUNCED Congratulations to the award winners of the Defining Wisdom grant competition. Participants were chosen because each showed the promise of a distinctive contribution to wisdom research and the potential to help establish...
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GRANTS AND GIVING Templeton Foundation, U. of C. make wise funding decision By Charles Storch Chicago Tribune reporter August 21, 2008 The wisdom of the ages could use freshening up. That's the thinking at the John Templeton Foundation , which has...
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John Cacioppo and William Patrick have released a new book on Cacioppo's work over the past 30 years entitled Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection. Visit their website www.scienceofloneliness.com for more information. Feeling...
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Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain The New York Times By SARA REISTAD-LONG Published: May 20, 2008 When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing number of...
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The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis The New York Times By STEPHEN S. HALL Published: May 6, 2007 In 1950, the psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson, in a famous treatise on the phases of life development, identified wisdom as a likely, but not inevitable, byproduct...
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Since 1995, THE WISDOM PAGE (now at www.wisdompage.com) has made wisdom-related resources available to the Internet community: information about the nature of wisdom and how it can be developed, various on-line texts concerning wisdom, references to books...
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May 29 - June 1, 2008 in Monterey Bay, California Since the Enlightenment, public systems of education have tended to focus on the efficient transmission of acquired knowledge. Consequently, the deeper aim of education—the evocation of wisdom in the human...
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June 29 - July 2, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) is pleased to announce that noted author and journalist James Surowiecki will deliver the opening keynote address at the 29th annual National Educational...
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by Tom Jackson, New York Times Magazine. Source: Monika Ardelt, University of Florida – Gainesville. Can something as subjective as wisdom be measured like stress or cholesterol? Some researchers have been trying to do just that. Among them is Monika...
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In November 2007, the Arete Initiative received over 600 applications for the Defining Wisdom grant competition. Applicants from over 35 countries submitted project ideas that represented practically all academic disciplines. This past January, the Project...
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Grant seeks “wisdom” scholars for U of C. Chicago Maroon. By Supriya Sinhababu, Friday, November 2, 2007 Defining Wisdom, a project sponsored by the University’s Arete Initiative and funded by the John Templeton Foundation, is now accepting letters of...
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Templeton grant to fund investigations into wisdom. The University of Chicago Chronicle . By Willliam Harms, News Office. April 12, 2007, Vol. 26, No. 14 The University will serve as the center for a new national effort to develop scholarly investigations...