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New Podcast: IELTS Academic Writing task 2 – Planning, organizing, editing
In this episode, we take an example. We especially cover how to plan a timed writing assignment, and how to structure and edit it. This lesson is ideal for ESL students at bands 5 – 6.5 band on the IELTS Writing. Continue reading
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New Podcast: Healthcare, Education, and Professionalism
In this video, Dr. Olexs and I discuss public and private Canadian Schools, Canada and US healthcare, and the issue of professionalism. This is very good for those people who are curious about Canada specifically, and some of the major systems in Canadian life. Continue reading
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A Little Bit More
A Little Bit More Some people want just a little bit more,Not just three bedrooms, but maybe four.A view from above, from the second floor,One has a spouse, but wants a whore. A minimalist will say that they want less,To give up want, to need – acquiesce.To unclutter all the untidy excess,And most of all, Continue reading
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How Three Months Transforms the Next Decade
Middle Class Musing We cannot understate the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis, but its moment in time will eventually pass. Take comfort that life will not return to normal. The following looks at this from a “middle class” situation, and leaves out of account those many issues of new immigrants, foreign students, and those Continue reading
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At Least, Not Today
It creeps and crawls like consequence, It trickles and drips like false pretense. It grasps, and tackles, and manipulates, An instinct meandering throughout the primate. If wonders are that which never cease, Wounds are mistakes, imperfections, a crease, That lie like open wounds waiting for salt, Opening and shaking an earthquake fault. It attacks and Continue reading
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Refined Intuitions: The Perils of Prediction Podcast
Dr. Olexs and I discussed the mastery of 10,000 hours, and the perils of prediction, from police escorts, to false cancer diagnoses, to leaving work at the office. The video begins about 5 minutes into our conversation. Continue reading
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The Sickness Before the Infection, Part 2: Preservation or Carrying On?
The seeming inability of recent generations to purchase either home or land is known to be a first-order symptom of this historical system of wealth acquisition, like having shortness of breath and a fever are first-order symptoms of having acquired the corona virus. At least two full generations of people who do not know how… Continue reading
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The Sickness Before the Infection, Part 1: Urgently Stopping the Sniffles.
In other words, there is no identifiable locus of the virus. It doesn’t matter whether the virus is transmitted among the community, or brought in on a plane or train. It doesn’t matter whether we have been globally exposed or locally situated, the virus is all around, and it could be transmitted by any of… Continue reading
About me: I am a career educator and traveler at heart. My written work includes academic writing in philosophy and linguistics, English acquisition, and most intently in the areas of spiritual engagement with reality and what that means for our public lives.
My education is a mixture of formal study in philosophy, political theory, Biblical studies, and history, along with professional teaching certification in TESOL and in cognitive testing, and international teaching.
My travel experiences include a range of countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. I have lived in Canada, the United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Thailand. From those places I have traveled to many others besides.
I am a child of the 70’s and a “family man.” That means I have two wonderful kids who have been round the world with me.
Lastly, I am married to a wonderful woman since 2004. She is my partner, my friend, and my muse.
Thanks again for stopping by,
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