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23
Nov
2009
knowing where you're coming from

2 days ago by robert butler

What Mike Hulme does in his new book Why We Disagree About Climate Change is a little like what Elliot Kupferberg, the Peter Bogdanovich character ( pic), does in The Sopranos. Both pick away at the seeming neutrality of the authority figure and reveal a dynamic that's more complicated and human. Th ...

ashdenizen - ashdenizen.blogspot.com · Rank: 98,926 · 16 references

Narrative for 11/18/09

2 days ago by kristensstudentteaching

These are my responses to the focusing questions for this week: Do you believe that there are cycles in teaching? For example, cycle of reforms, of success, stagnation, change, adaptability, etcetera? I didn’t think about this before I started teaching, but yes, I do believe that these cycles exist. ...

Student Teaching "Scraps" - kristensstudentteaching.wordpress.com

22
Nov
2009
Too Late for Us ft. Tiye Pheonix.mp3

2 days ago by neece a

The people who always give the least, always expect the most. Just another piece. Miasma of the mind. White tee, faded jeans, swooshes on her sole, got a love adjacently marked onto her soul. That girl. You know, the one waiting at the bus stop, listenin’ to her bass beats drop, lookin’ like her pil ...

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Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story

3 days ago by Iran

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

Maoni Yangu - maoniyangu.wordpress.com

21
Nov
2009
Telling stories

3 days ago by Tom Powdrill

There are a couple of interesting and related posts on Falkenblog that caught my eye. This one on narratives, and this one on Malcolm Gladwell. I've not blogged about narratives for a while, but I do think they are absolutely fundamental to how we interpret the world and they run much deeper than we ...

Labour And Capital - labourandcapital.blogspot.com · Rank: 74,470 · 46 references

Seven Million Memes in One

4 days ago by Karra

Video Bleeding Me Insane

The Lyrics Narrative Meme 1. Put your mp3 player on shuffle and take the first 15 songs it gives you. 2. Link to the lyrics. (or a video) 3. Let your friends assign you a song and character(s) to write a narrative to. Gap Band - Dropped a Bomb On Me Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man Breathe Carolina - See Y ...

Ex Mortis - karra.livejournal.com · 9 references

19
Nov
2009
Every late night supermarket shopping basket tells a story

5 days ago by menthe_reglisse

Bumper pack of size 3 nappies, bottle of Chardonnay, Hello magazine: Improvident mother has had a bad day Box of After Eights (50% extra free), Robbie Williams CD, half price bunch of slightly wilted flowers, card saying 'Happy wedding anniversary to my dear wife': Husband is disorganised, unimagina ...

menthe_reglisse - menthe-reglisse.livejournal.com · 4 references

You want your standards? I got your standards right here!

5 days ago by D Wil

Recently, I’ve mentioned I, in much nicer terms, hate the direction the web industry is going. Partly from my own mishap with an agency on Twitter, partially from working at agencies, and downright to the realization that I just don’t care about the web. The decisions web dev professionals make are ...

Neon Night-Rider - neonnightrider.com · 3 references

The Social Life of Food – an example

5 days ago by JJ Jacobson

I’ve been thinking this week about the Columbian Exchange – the exchange of plants, animals, and people between the Eastern and Western hemispheres initiated by Columbus in 1492, which changed the world dramatically and irrevocably. It’s a long story, and a complicated one, and the transplantation o ...

The Culinary Curator - theculinarycurator.wordpress.com · 1 reference

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