https://www.munshinegroup.com/embracing-lifelong-learning/ In yesterday’s NYT, I learned that Alan Alda has taught scientists how to use improvisational acting techniques so they can be better communicators. Alda explains: The idea is you can’t really communicate ideas unless you know what’s going on in the other person’s mind.
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https://advogadoemresende.com/consulteadvogado/During George W. Bush’s two terms, environmentalists and archaeologists complained (with justification) that the oil & gas industry was allowed to run roughshod over Western public lands. I wrote a bunch about this for numerous magazines, from Audubon and Mother Jones to High Country News and Archaeology. The same question arose in all these stories:…Continue Reading…
https://prsaboston.org/about-us/sponsorships/ The reinvention of journalism in the digital age is happening, let there be no mistake about that. Yet, despite the promise of crowdsourcing, hyperlocals and even the Huffington Poacher, it’s not as if anyone has figured out how to make newspaper reporting as we know it economically viable on the web. Hence the unending stream…Continue Reading…
The LA Times has an amusing profile on Arianna Huffington, in which she said this howler: Our site is not built around the freebie. In the next breath, she also said this, apparently with a straight face: Our site is built around very hard-working editors and reporters who do all the curating and aggregating and…Continue Reading…
In a short, snappy video interview with Nature, Stanford climatologist Stephen Schneider veers between hope, resignation, and realism. He makes a good case for what can be salvaged from Copenhagen, and why that matters. Along those lines, he offers this clever twist on an over-used phrase: We can’t let the perfect be the enemy of…Continue Reading…
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https://chitolytic.com/endotoxin-test/ There’s an interesting exchange over at The Oil Drum about the legacy of President Carter’s infamous 1977 energy speech. For my money, this commenter (who also posts essays at The Oil Drum), is spot on: It is almost impossible to quantify the damage that this one speech did to the very real need for a…Continue Reading…
I’m not a fan of cross-posts, because it muddies the blog waters. So when environmental ethicist Ben Hale guest blogs for the Wonk room at the Center for American Progress (CAP) or he’s cross-posting from Climate Progress to his own site, I have to wonder if this is an implicit endorsement of CAP’s views on…Continue Reading…
https://drreddyfamilydoctors.com/patient-forms/ Should the Washington Post’s value as a newspaper be measured solely by the content on it’s op-ed pages? This seems to be the yardstick that Tim Lambert, a widely read climate blogger, uses in a current post, titled, The Washington Post can’t go out of business fast enough Now why would he wish that? Well,…Continue Reading…