Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences explains that each of us possesses at least eight or nine intelligences.  How do these intelligences come into being in the first place?  The question of where ”intelligence” as a singular phenomenon comes from has been hotly debated by psychometricians and other experts for decades.  Generally speaking, the debate...Read More

Do you know your IQ?  Do you even care?  Howard Gardner at Harvard University says that IQ is far too limited a measure of a person’s human potential.  In his renowned theory of multiple intelligences, he came up with 8 and possibly even 9 intelligences that give a greater range of human accomplishment.  What are...Read More

In my 20th book, a novel entitled Childless, I tell the story about a childless child psychologist who tries to foil a U.S government plot to declare childhood as a medical disorder and then eliminate it from the human genome.  The novel is a darkly comedic satire about something very serious that is going on in...Read More

In 2021-2022, I taught a class for the Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education.  and created videos from the lectures I gave.  This video is #4 in the 10 video series for the course entitled Introduction to Neurodiversity. The video describes a concept that I’ve adapted from evolutionary biology called niche construction, which...Read More

This video is part 3 of a 10 video series based on a course I taught called Introduction to Neurodiversity, at Bridges Graduate School for Cognitive Diversity in Education.  It discusses the roots of the neurodiversity movement showing how it essentially emerged in the 1990’s out of the autistic rights movement, which itself emerged from...Read More