Anonymous
According to a new article in Scientific American, people lose civility when they don't talk to each other eye to eye. In fact, the popular magazine with impeccable credentials is going one step further by eliminating the Comments section form its online publication. http://gu.com/p/3j3dv Who among us has not engaged in a simple act of sharing ideas with someone we don't know and possibly don't agree with...Online. We call them trolls, but these angry responders who feel empowered with their anonymity, are everywhere. For many, this is a new phenomena. Not so. There have been few but definitely other opportunities for the exchange of ideas without revealing one's identity. About 15 years ago, in our pre internet savvy world I chanced to come upon an idea that would allow students in a classroom to exchange ideas with an anonymous identity and hopefully extend an exchange that moved far beyond the confines of a classroom. I heard about something called anony