Yesterday, Morning Edition featured a pleasant little story about new research into the psychology of doodling. We may think of doodling as something we do when we're bored, or at least not fully engaged, but it turns out that doodling might just be what enables us to process information even when we're not fully engaged. Check it out: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyID=101727048. The experiment that Jackie Andrade of the University of Plymouth conducted is, I think, a marvel of ingenuity...and kind of funny.
I mention it because it immediately put me in mind of a delightful book that Basic published a couple years ago, Presidential Doodles: Two Centuries of Scribbles, Scratches, Squiggles and Scrawls from the Oval Office by David Greenberg and the editors of Cabinet magazine (9780465032679). (As I learned putting this post together, it reminded the NPR editors of this book as well - the current story links to the story they did upon this book's initial publication in 2006. If you want to go straight there, it's www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6118892. They've even got a gallery up of some signature doodles - perhaps it will not surprise you to see that President Reagan was fond of drawing cowboys.)
I mention it because it immediately put me in mind of a delightful book that Basic published a couple years ago, Presidential Doodles: Two Centuries of Scribbles, Scratches, Squiggles and Scrawls from the Oval Office by David Greenberg and the editors of Cabinet magazine (9780465032679). (As I learned putting this post together, it reminded the NPR editors of this book as well - the current story links to the story they did upon this book's initial publication in 2006. If you want to go straight there, it's www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6118892. They've even got a gallery up of some signature doodles - perhaps it will not surprise you to see that President Reagan was fond of drawing cowboys.)
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