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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Parting And Arriving Shots

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It was just about midnight as we took off from Anchorage last night.  It's summer if you count the seasons by how much light we...

Geese Fly By

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This is a pretty thin post.  But I did spent a half hour just enjoying the peace (but not quiet, since the Seward Highway is adjacent) of th...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Loussac Remodel Update - Atrium Is Gone (Repost*)

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Here's Loussac Library (Anchorage's main libray) on May 10, 2016.  They've taken out the whole atrium area.  The geometric meta...
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Monday, May 09, 2016

What Happens When Your Parents Aren't Who You Think They Are? And Feedburner Doesn't Share Your Posts?

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I linked to a very interesting piece in Saturday's Guardian about a family that wasn't quite [remember, I tend toward understatemen...
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Sunday, May 08, 2016

What Happens When Your Parents Aren't Who You Think They Are?

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When raising the issue of epistemology (very loosely, how do you know what's true?) with my students, I'd sometimes ask things like...
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Why Is John Doe Being Treated So Differently From Snowden, Manning, And Assange?

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The Wiki-Leaks source Bradley Manning was condemned as a traitor and convicted to 35 years in prison. Edward Snowden is stuck in Moscow f...
Friday, May 06, 2016

Budding And Blooming

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Spring's transformation in Anchorage is pretty spectacular.  We go from snow, to brown, then there's this explosion of things pop...
Thursday, May 05, 2016

How We 'Know' Things Determines How We Handle Them. Old Age, Mental Health, Death

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A book - Atul Gawande's Being Mortal    a movie Healing Voices -   and this   LA Times article about medical error being ...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2016

"... body was found near the north end of the Savage River Loop Trail . . .Searchers believe he died Tuesday."

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If the  title quotes from the Alaska Dispatch  are accurate,  J and I hiked  apparently right below Michael Purdy's body, "about 1...
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"Tells It Like It Is"? More Like Tells It As He Sees It.

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Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's campaign manager is quoted in the Alaska Dispatch yesterday ( from a Washington Post article by Dan...