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Daredevil Lives Here: The Geography of Hell’s Kitchen
Daredevil Lives Here: The Geography of Hell’s Kitchen, Matt Murdock, and his alter-ego, Daredevil, The Man Without Fear. I finished watching Daredevil on Netflix. My personal opinion is Netflix has...
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Book Review: City of Bones, by Michael Connelly
Book Review: City of Bones, by Michael Connelly. Grand Central Publishing. Hachette Book Group. ©2002. $10 Blurbs on books are worthless. Honestly, the accolades plastered across paperbacks are...
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China, the South China Sea, and the Fog of War
The Spratly Islands are a collection of atolls, reefs, islands, and skerries about midway between the Philippine Islands and mainland China. Navigation around and through the Spratlys can be tortuous;...
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The Case for Homework
Kevin Gannon (Grand View University; Twitter:@TheTattoedProf) wrote an excellent rebuttal to an essay published in the New York Time recently. Mark Bauerlein, himself also a professor (Emory...
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Professors Have A Point
Here is the original essay by Mark Bauerlein published Sunday, May 9th, “What’s the Point of a Professor?” I encourage all to read first, then reread, if necessary. Subtitle: Education is a Shared...
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Geomentoring Workshop for Teachers
The first exposure I had to the term, “geomentoring,” was about almost two years ago. Conferences tend to be little more than large accumulations of people who passionately disclose to conference-goers...
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Summer Work in Higher Education
Anyone who follows the trials and tribulations of higher education have little choice but to conclude the very foundations of Higher Education are being undermined. Higher Education and the...
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ESRI Education Users Conference: Day 1
San Diego is a city I’ve come to hate to love. San Diego represents the best of urban life and the worst of urban settlement patterns. San Diego is a city wrestling every day with contrasts; wonderful...
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ESRI Education Users Conference Day 2
Cities are like people. They breath, work, play, sleep. Cities experience stress, can feel tight, like sense sense of foreboding and unease before a storm. Tense and holding a breath, becoming sweaty...
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ESRI International Users Conference: Day 1
One convenience of traveling to the same locale over time is consistency. San Diego seems to transform with each visit, though in essence change is more superficial, more cosmetic, than truly...
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ESRI International Users Conference: Day 2
One of San Diego’s best traits is the dog community. Dogs are great; their owners vary in disposition as much as dogs vary in size, weight, color, temperament, and breath odor. Walking down the...
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ESRI International Users Conference: Day 3
My last day, Wednesday, arrives like a bottom-hitting roller coaster. The momentum builds as the days climb towards the apex of Tuesday night. Wednesday arrives as a crashing descent, slipping into the...
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Tribulations of GIS Center Management
The unfortunate position of blogging in situ circumstances is having to constantly prognosticate the down-stream consequences of words and assertions. If my words appear to deliberately obfuscate some...
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Higher Education Needs A Start-Up Mindset
I have numerous posts espousing changes I think I’d like to see in Higher Education. In May 2012, I posted Fostering Education Through Student Incubators (5-21-2012); in November 2013 I posted...
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Privatization of Higher Education Deserves Scrutiny and Skepticism
On March 18th, 2015, the Illinois Senator Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) proposed a new set of hardened news rules for students to adhere to if they want grants from the good people of Illinois...
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The Hyperion Cantos: A Books Review
Hyperion ©1989 The Fall of Hyperion ©1990 Endymion ©1996 The Rise of Endymion ©1997 By Dan Simmons. Spectra Bantam Science Fiction. These books present a brilliant obstacle to authoring an...
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My Cosmology Bookshelf
I read a considerable number of cosmology and physics books written mostly for the general public. Perhaps a better phrase is books written for “general consumption,” as I’m not sure how many people...
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Eric Hanushek on the Education, Skills, and the Millennium Development Goals
EconTalk Episode with Eric Hanushek (Podcast at http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/07/eric_hanushek_o.html) I don’t usually author short posts but I have some things to do tonight and I want to push...
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Interstellar
Interstellar. A Tardy Movie Review. A film by Christopher Nolan, based upon a story by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan. Kip Thorne deserves mention as his input was necessary for black hole and wormhole...
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When Students Are Ready To Listen
Tonight, I had an interesting conversation with a college drop-out. She is young so she still has a chance at a decent future for herself. This young lady will have a decent future for herself when she...
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