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Monthly Archives: December 2017
The Flat Earth Experience
In his The Time Machine Weena tries to throw herself in the fire because she has never seen flames before. She doesn’t know that it will burn her and that she should exercise care. She is a figure of profound … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Culture, Supernatural, Teaching
Tagged flat earth, flat earther, flat earthers, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Weena
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Serendipity and Other People’s Hard Work: Contributing to Intellectual Society
Many years ago, when I used to build computers from found parts, installing hard drives was much more of an ordeal. You needed to look up the serial number of the hard drive in a database—if you were lucky enough … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Mars, Teaching
Tagged artifical gravity, orbital mechanics, science fiction, simulated gravity, youtube
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Toys for Big Boys: Manboys and Manplay
When a local motorcycle and skidoo shop adopted the name “Toys for Big Boys” I would have thought it would mean death for their business. I would have guessed that the overgrown baby that is the man who loves to … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Environmentalism
Tagged Child care, Fahrenheit 451, fathers, man child, manbaby, manboy, Montag, parenthood, Ray Bradbury, Toys for Big Boys
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The Winter Solstice and Trying to Explain the Movement of the Sun
Many years ago I found myself trying to explain the movement of the sun during the winter to a class in Victoria, British Columbia, and ever since I have been struck by how cultural knowledge can be allowed or disallowed … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient Peoples, Culture, History, Literature, Teaching
Tagged axial tilt, cultural understanding, Earth's axis, pedagogy, Vinland Sagas
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The Best line from a Student Paper
Although I have read many great student sentences over the years, probably the most memorable one is from my student’s essay when I was teaching in the United States. One of my students was writing about Frederick Douglass, the famous … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Teaching, Writing
Tagged common writing errors, Frederick Douglass, slavery, student writing
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The Contamination of Ideas: Truth and Lies in the Internet Age
A recent encounter reminds me that notions of knowledge and how it is gained can be subjective. I was told by a young person that a documentary watched by their mother—they didn’t even see the documentary themselves—argued that there was … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Media, News, News of the World, Social Media
Tagged a New World Order, auras, birthers, Competent Receiver, contrails behind jets, Facebook bubble, fact checkers, flat earth, Fox News, H. G. Wells, holocaust denial, homeopathy, Indonesia, Malaysia, Muslim-majority countries, Muslims, post-fact world, power of prayer, prayer, refrigerator lights, santa, sunspots and climate change, the flood in Genesis, the use of fluoride, the world trade centre bombing, Trump, UFOs, vaccines, weather control, white supremacy, World Brain
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