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Douglas Orme
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Nov 27, 2022

Metaphors of Shame

I heard Steven Pressfield on a recent episode of the Rich Roll podcast (584). My ears perked up when Pressfield began to talk about how our culture currently lacks sufficient shame; that too many behave shamelessly. Do the powerful and well-known not supply near-daily examples of things they should be…

Metaphors

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Metaphors of Shame
Metaphors of Shame
Metaphors

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Oct 4, 2021

Michael Edward James Orme: A Brief Intellectual Biography

I shall forgo trying to parse the early years of my father’s life for the seeds of his later intellectual journey. Were I a novelist, I would mention his birth year at the nadir of the Great Depression, his strict and long-absent Anglican minister father, the travels around southern Alberta…

Educational Psychology

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Michael Edward James Orme: A Brief Intellectual Biography
Michael Edward James Orme: A Brief Intellectual Biography
Educational Psychology

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Jul 24, 2021

Burnham vs. Bourdain

Will the real deepfake please stand up? What’s interesting about whether the makers of a recent documentary on Anthony Bourdain’s life should have done a deepfake of Bourdain’s voice, is not whether the family knew or not, nor whether doing so is ethical; What makes the controversy interesting is what it accidentally reveals about the myth of…

Bo Burnham

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Burnham vs. Bourdain
Burnham vs. Bourdain
Bo Burnham

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Nov 26, 2020

Why you must not watch “The Queen’s Gambit”

“This is about the evils of sex and drugs and rock ‘n roll right?” Nope. “But wait, the show is about a lovable, survivor who overcomes all the odds to attain success despite being so tragically orphaned after her father gives up on the family and her mother’s suicide and…

The Queens Gambit

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Why you must not watch “The Queen’s Gambit”
Why you must not watch “The Queen’s Gambit”
The Queens Gambit

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Oct 28, 2020

Where the hell is it?

Where the hell is it? Walking with my daughter this morning, we saw this old-timey sign in front of a local coffee shop. “Hey! Look at that! How clever. They’ve made the coffee cup look like a COVID mask!”, I said. “Yes, but they’ve always had that up there.”, …

Meaning Of Art

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Where the hell is it?
Where the hell is it?
Meaning Of Art

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Sep 27, 2020

Poetry for AIs

With the rise of machine learning, AI systems are now capable of many routine tasks previously the purview of humans only. …

Writers Life

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Poetry for AIs
Poetry for AIs
Writers Life

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May 23, 2020

Of Cats and Dogs on Roncesvalles

A story in the Russian Tradition The Viscount Roland awoke one August morning, somewhat earlier than was his usual habit. Because all of the household clocks were at the local watchmaker’s shop, he was unaware of the early hour. Despite this, he felt unusually vigorous and decided to take a…

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Of Cats and Dogs on Roncesvalles
Of Cats and Dogs on Roncesvalles

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May 21, 2020

The “Magic Aspie”

There is a new character in movies. You may have seen him. He is the “Magic Aspie”. He is the youth with Asperger’s Syndrome who sprinkles joy and good feelings through the lives of the stressed out and/or beleaguered and/or angry and/or depressed and/or angst-ridden main character in the film…

Movies

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The “Magic Aspie”
The “Magic Aspie”
Movies

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May 16, 2020

What Can Resistance to Technology Tell Us in the Era of COVID 19?

Even pre-COVID 19, the rush to integrate digital technology into education has been difficult to miss: we see countless articles workshops, chapters, and books dedicated to the premise that using this technology is both inevitable and good. Since the pandemic, the wave has morphed into a tsunami for obvious reasons…

Edutech

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What Can Resistance to Technology Tell Us in the Era of COVID 19?
What Can Resistance to Technology Tell Us in the Era of COVID 19?
Edutech

9 min read

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