Utah Public Radio invites you to join us for a summer garden party at 6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 4 at the home of Bruce Bugbee and Diana West. The evening will include live music, a catered dinner and a very special guest – author, academic and activist Temple Grandin.
Each $145 ticket purchase includes a copy of Temple Grandin’s book “Visual Thinking,” which you can get signed that evening. Plus, your ticket purchase will help support science programming on Utah Public Radio.
Bruce Bugbee and Diana West’s annual themed garden
This is the 35th year that Bruce Bugbee and Diana West have created a themed garden at their historic home on Crockett Avenue. This year’s theme is “Music in the Garden” and features a beautiful display of flowers, plants, a stone path and musical instruments that passersby can play.
Read more about their garden this year from The Herald Journal.
"Visual Thinking"
A quarter of a century after her memoir, "Thinking in Pictures," forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin— “an anthropologist on Mars,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. Do you have a keen sense of direction, a love of puzzles, the ability to assemble furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker.
With her genius for demystifying science, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the photo-realistic “object visualizers” like Grandin herself, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to the abstract, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace.
Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers.
In a highly competitive world, this important book helps us see, we need every mind on board.
How'd You Think of That
Hosted by Temple Grandin, this podcast explores how the unique ways that every person thinks affect the work they do – especially in STEM fields. How do we create an education and early career system that recognizes and takes advantage of every individual’s skill set, experiences and perspective?
We delve into these questions with STEM professionals and learn about their important work and the benefit of a multifaceted approach to STEM education.
Listen to How'd You Think of That on Utah Public Radio or wherever you get your podcasts.
The show originated with the STEM Action Center.
Support comes from the Institute for Disability Research, Policy and Practice.
