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All the more reason to start now -- not taking the next unnecessary trip, biking, carpooling, making a "necessary" trip unecessary, etc.
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You drew a false dichotomy. As I noted, they learn the theory better too, just not by reading theory. I don't teach a vocational class, I teach project-based learning.
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They couldn't prompt disruption more if they tried. I teach at NYU also. I teach very experiential, active, project-based courses. My students, for projects in my class, get written up in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Forbe
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Many videos for those interested in learning more -- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bard+prison+ini... -- but the big show to watch is Lynn Novick's and Ken Burns's College Behind Bars -- https:&#x2
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My science background leads me to look at the situation as the NY Times does. I find this article compelling in motivating me to support sticking with protocols from science experts on social distancing, etc. Last week I appeared on a very
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He's also flying a plane over a city surveilling everyone -- "the most comprehensive surveillance ever imposed on an American city in the history of the country" in one attorney's opinion. He also said, "There is no
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> Images are stored for 45 days and can be used only for criminal investigation. Anyone who believes that, I've got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. > [Police Commissioner Michael] Harrison sees no privacy concern. I can see him
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He sounds like Robert McNamara, wonderkind of business in his time, relatively inexperienced in politics and military. Then came Vietnam. Eventually McNamara would admit > "We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generati
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Consciousness. How is it possible that the thread is up 5 hours and ctrl-f consciousness returns nothing?
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Moreover, Hoboken had to ban smoking too to regain its residents preferring smoke-free bars and restaurants in the city -- the opposite of naysayers' expectations. It will happen with cars and plastic here (NYC) too. I hope the pollute
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by spodek 7y ago
Best to email at http://joshuaspodek.com/contactconnect since my previous posts make this thread hard to find.
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I try to address those questions in my TEDx talks: http://joshuaspodek.com/my-second-tedx-talk-what-everyone-ge... This Inc. article describes some of my early results: https://www.inc.com/joshua-spodek&#x2F
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As someone who used to love flying and relied on it for income, family, etc, but stopped as I learned how much it polluted, pleasantly surprised to find how much my life improved without it, I read articles on the cruise industry as apply
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Lots of questions, which I love. I developed my technique with lots of leaders, my podcast guests, and friends, and find more input helps. Regarding beliefs as the root, once I reach beliefs I try to learn where they come from, especially v
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My TEDx talks and podcast address your second question, both on leadership and the environment. TEDx talks: http://joshuaspodek.com/my-tedx-talk-is-online-find-your-del... Podcast: http://joshuaspodek.com/po
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I trace free licenses to the GNU General Public License https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License , which is why I believe that in time Richard Stallman's influence will become greater than those of
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> “Universal stay-at-home is the most devastating economic force in modern history" Pursuing perpetual economic growth, combined with externalizing costs where possible, on a finite planet beats its devastation by far. Among other t
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People are notoriously ineffective at predicting their behavior under different conditions. In late December they spend thousands of dollars for gym memberships they abandon by February. They say they'll never smoke or drink again befo
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That's what they want you to think.
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When photography made realism trivial to achieve over a century ago, painters responded with alternatives, like impressionism. Illustration overlaps with art, though isn't the same, but people who want to express themselves will create
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You describe focusing on the solution. The inspiration to make your solution generally feels great, but doesn't endure. On the contrary, you'll get caught up in more and more solutions because you're mostly satisfying fleetin
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The video also covered encroaching on wildlife territory causing epidemics and pandemics such as ebola. He seems to have recorded it during a bird flu pandemic so focused on that type.
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Sadly, the irony of people reacting to the pandemic by buying tons of factory farmed meat is buried under its deadly effect. Somehow the media has focused so much on the here and now -- important as ventilators and distancing are -- that it
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Related to profiting off pandemics, or rather by causing them: pack animals by the thousand to breed viruses and put them near other species closely packed to promote virus mutations -- aka factory farming. Presto, save money and promote vi
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Almost nothing about experiments. Physics is an experimental science, based on observation of nature. Its treatments of experiments is as if they were mere side notes to the real thing. The Tools section might include something like a ruler
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I used to think all of that. Then getting rid of my books improved my life more than almost any other act. It took time and a few rounds of culling, but transformed how I looked at possessions and led to reducing much of my other stuff. I w
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What we think of wild nature is nothing compared to what used to exist. Schools of fish so dense they would bring boats to a halt in the middle of the Atlantic. North America had more large wildlife than Africa. Whales as far as the eye cou
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The site is down so I haven't read it, but I suspect many flat earthers are responding to people who have no better reason to believe the Earth is round but lord over them condescendingly. When I ask my university classes for first-han
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The images of Sao Paolo before and after banning billboards https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret... illustrate the difference in a different space. Personally, I found the difference greater and
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Obesity, according to this NIH document https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28292617 on Pubmed: > Obesity pandemic: causes, consequences, and solutions-but do we have the will? > Abstract > Obesity has be

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