Focus on developments in the education economy. PhD, University of Queensland
Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2009
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Kind of a big story, no?
Russia plotted to put incendiary devices aboard passenger aircraft bound for Canada and the U.S., The Wall Street Journal is reporting
nationalpost.com/news/canada…
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It’s not just the elegant british accent, but the class of her arguments.
@elicalebon
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🧵“Accountability” first appears in higher education in 1974 and explodes over the next 40 yrs (see vid clip). Our latest article looks at transformational changes to the field, namely how the stories of two communities grew different over time (1/10) link.springer.com/article/10…
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a lot of academics will have a keen-eyed structural analysis of breakfast cereals or barbie dolls but not when you ask them to think about their own profession and the context in which it operates
The kleptocrats aren’t just stealing money. They’re stealing democracy. By Anne Applebaum ft.com/content/0876ef7a-bf88… via @ft @anneapplebaum
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This older gentleman with his shirt off has a great message that I think everyone should hear.
“Every hundred years, there’s all new people…”
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Nonprofits are bad
We need to bring back high integrity state capacity, highly paid, chosen for merit and held to high standards of accountability
The state must end its practice of farming out state capacity to feckless nonprofits that grift and are not held to any standard
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Today, on the streets of Toronto
“Yemen, Yemen make us proud, turn another ship around”
They mean the Houthis. The Iran backed terrorist organization. They are cheering on terrorists.
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OMG — you gotta watch this!!! 🤪🤪🤪
#CuckooTrump
teapawt.net/champnella/status/1801…
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~@TheEconomist covers the unusual exclusion of my book from the New York Times bestseller list despite outselling the fourth and fifth ranked books on their list: economist.com/culture/2024/0…
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The most important thing you'll read this Sunday...
Nietzsche's brutal takedown of the modern cult of busyness
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The duet you never knew you needed to see.
Wilson Pickett and Tom Jones
In the Midnight Hour
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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🚨 BREAKING: Biden National Security Council Advisor: We Can't Go Against Israel until Reelection; Israel 'Lies, Bombs, and Kills All These Kids'
“We can help you [Israel] in the way that we can, but you’re not going to continue to lie, and bomb, and kill all these kids without facing serious consequences. But that’s a second term decision.”
“If Biden won again he could be much more forthright about saying ‘No’ [to Israel].”
#270ToWin
I've made some awful assessments of players and teams before, but I couldn't fathom why Jalen Brunson was coming off the bench when playing for Dallas. Fitting that he is now terrorizing the Pacers - a team currently coached by his old coach from Dallas. youtu.be/vpm5s0qY8go?si=jBtz…
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New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school
- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids
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Fossil fuels were given over $7 TRILLION in subsidies last year: buff.ly/3P85KHU That's $19.2 billion per day,
$799 million per hour,
$13.3 million every minute.
The first step in addressing the problem is to stop funding it. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy
The plastic, simulated, faux-earnestness of US morning television is the source of nightmares to humans outside the US.
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Great question. On one level, it depends on the variety of capital held by the elder. But intergenerational learning may also be interpreted as a marker of family orientation: importance placed on family, living arrangements, what kind of knowledge is celebrated, etc.
