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Wednesday, April 07, 2021

Georgia voting laws explained by Brits

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BBC fact checking: Georgia voting: Fact-checking claims about the new election law      
Monday, March 08, 2021

Linux OS choices for beginners

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Best Linux Distributions That are Most Suitable for Beginners Brief: It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the list of Linux distributions availa...
Monday, February 01, 2021

Story telling patterns

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These are the typical elements, or structure, of story telling: The Story Spine: Pixar's 4th rule of storytelling In 2012 Pixar Stor...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

The Girl From Ipanema is a far weirder song than you thought

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I have always loved the song, it's so hauntingly beautiful. This video goes into a lot of detail that helps explain why. It also expl...
Thursday, December 03, 2020

The Lost Arts of Empathy and Conversation. We need to revive them, and not let the extremists among us dominate our political conversation.

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From The Atlantic monthly: How We Got Trump Voters to Change Their Mind [...] Typically, when volunteers engage in a canvassing campaign...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Jordan Peterson, on Liberals and Conservatives

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And why we need them both: Jordan Peterson (Trump vs Biden 2020 Election) A plane needs both a left wing and a right wing to fly.  Somet...
Wednesday, November 04, 2020

Oregon voted to stop Daylight Savings Time. Yet we fell back anyway. Here's why.

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Didn't Oregon do away with daylight saving time? Why you still have to 'fall back' Nov. 3 [...] Oregon lawmakers said the ...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Death of the working class... and of Capitalism, as we knew it?

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How fighting one pandemic can deepen another Review of “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism” by Anne Case and Angus Deaton By C...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Kamala Harris: an interesting choice

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From the Guardian: What to make of the Kamala Harris VP pick? Our panel's verdict [...] Harris, like Biden, is a remarkably malleable...
Thursday, July 23, 2020

Covid-19: it's not your grandfather's Influenza. In fact, it's not Influenza.

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The Covid 19 Pandemic is frequently compared to the Influenza pandemic of 1918-1920. But is the comparison correct? Corona viruses are not...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Windows 7 support ends. So where to now?

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Microsoft suggests upgrading to windows 10. That would be fine... if it worked. They offered free windows 10 upgrades. I tried that, and i...
Friday, January 03, 2020

Richard Bandler (How to keep your New Years Resolutions)

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Richard Bandler is one of the founders of NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming). I've been reading his book, "Guide to TRANCE-formati...
Sunday, December 01, 2019

"Democrats cannot capture the presidency or either branch of Congress by lurching leftward"

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Here is some well considered advice for the Democrat party. It explains how Donald Trump got elected, and why, if the Democrats don't c...
Monday, May 13, 2019

A Star Dies

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Obituary: Doris Day, America's archetypal girl next door Big fan here, of her movies and her music. This day was inevitable, but......
Monday, April 01, 2019

Duolingo Mascot Get's Pushy

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Duolingo PUSH A nice April 1st video. ;)      
Friday, January 25, 2019

"Comprehensible Input" in Language Learning

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An interview with Steven Krashen, about the importance of comprehensible input in language acquisition: I'm learning Spanish, and I...
Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Who was Joachim Gottschalk?

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He was a famous German actor in Nazi Germany, who died along with his family, when he refused to be separated from his Jewish wife and their...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Have you experianced the "Helper High"?

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Apparently, we are hard-wired to experience it: How to Be Happy Every Day: It Will Change the World | Jacqueline Way | TEDxStanleyPark ...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

When death affirms life

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We saw this movie recently: The Fault in Our Stars Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive au...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Russia's Satan II Missile

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This was just a blip in the news. Should we be paying more attention? I think so: Russia unveils 'Satan 2' missile, could wipe o...