electricity: that which converts a trailer house into a mini mansion. keywords: progress, improvement, domicile, status, standard of living
Month: March 2020
iTools Research (“Use the best tool for the job”)
(“We find and share the best tools to get whatever you want done, simply.”) Here is the link to the site. keywords: cyberspace, IT, Information Technology, search
schoology (distance learning platform)
Here is the link to their site. keywords: education, instruction, training, teaching, learning, study, curriculum, online
OBSERVATION
Because of limited grammatical structures, you sometimes have to choose between grammatical clarity and technical exactness. For example, if I say “When the Sun goes nova, the first thing we will hear from administrators is that they are in ‘uncharted territory’.”, it is clear what I mean, but not technically exact, because ‘we’ will not … Continue reading OBSERVATION
“That’s life.” in French
C’est la vie. keywords: Linguistics, Language Arts, translation, resignation
a topical saying
“It is often advantageous not to be among those present.” I carved this saying out of one of the quotes from P.G. Wodehouse, to fit the current ‘social distancing’ regime: “a man who knows when and when not to be among those present” -- P.G. Wodehouse Here is the link to where I found this … Continue reading a topical saying
article: Developing K-16 Student Standards for Language Learning: A Critical Examination of the Case of Esperanto, by Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, and Timothy Reagan
Here is the link to the article. keywords: education, instruction, training, teaching, study, curriculum
stratollites
Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on the company deploying them. keywords: science, data, near-Earth space, commercialization
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Anyone with a news-watching mentality can never be deeply creative. Such a person can at most create derivative works, e.g., riffing off one’s biography. A habitual news-watcher is a special case of a spectator. cf: “It is given only to those in the spirit world to be spectators.” -- anon
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“Without empathy, nothing works.” -- José Andrés cf: “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” -- Theodore Roosevelt keywords: life, progress, improvement, gifts, gifting