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3 03, 2023

Here and There – 2045

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722023-03-03T04:41:51+00:00March 3rd, 2023|Books, Politics, Society, Technology|

Here and There – 2045 Despite some squabbles as to whether it began in 2000 or 2001, by the time 2001 was under way, [...]

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17 02, 2023

Here and There – Norway

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722023-02-17T04:04:07+00:00February 17th, 2023|Education, Personal, Society, Technology|

Here and There – Norway Norway holds a special place in my heart, for reasons that go back to my school days.  Recollections from [...]

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16 12, 2022

Here and There – Scotland

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-12-16T02:44:34+00:00December 16th, 2022|Personal, Society, Technology|

Here and There – Scotland It is hard to explain why I love Scotland.  I don’t have any known Scottish ancestry.  I lived there [...]

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25 11, 2022

Kurt Vonnegut

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-11-25T01:26:48+00:00November 25th, 2022|Books, Politics, Society, Technology|

Kurt Vonnegut When I first read Slaughterhouse-Five, way back in the 1970s, I knew almost nothing about postmodernist novels and their importance as a [...]

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18 11, 2022

Here and There – China – Shanghai

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-11-18T04:22:51+00:00November 18th, 2022|Education, Personal, Society, Technology|

Here and There – China – Shanghai I first went to Shanghai for work in 1998.  I had been to China several times before, [...]

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11 11, 2022

John Updike

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-11-11T03:20:31+00:00November 11th, 2022|Books, Personal, Philosophical, Society, Technology|

John Updike It is always important to know the enemy, and on this occasion the enemy is me.  Let’s be clear, I am an [...]

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21 10, 2022

Here and There – Papua New Guinea

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-10-21T01:26:44+00:00October 21st, 2022|Personal, Politics, Society, Technology|

Here and There – Papua New Guine I first visited Papua New Guinea at the beginning of the 1980s.  Working for Shell, I was [...]

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14 10, 2022

Peter Singer

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-10-14T01:46:39+00:00October 14th, 2022|Books, Philosophical, Society, Technology|

Peter Singer Just about every day an expert is happily giving the rest of us advice on what we need to do.  The proposal [...]

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30 09, 2022

Theodore Roszak

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-09-30T04:26:24+00:00September 30th, 2022|Books, Education, Politics, Technology|

Theodore Roszak The intellectual world in the late 1960s and early 1970s was vibrantly polemic.  While their students were taking to the streets in [...]

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16 09, 2022

Robert Putnam

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722022-09-16T04:31:42+00:00September 16th, 2022|Books, Personal, Politics, Society, Technology|

Robert Putnam In case you haven’t noticed, I am a sucker for ‘big picture’ books (not big ‘picture books’, though I like them, too!).  [...]

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