Archive for month: October, 2014
In the United States, painkillers take more lives than heroin and cocaine combined – Globe and Mail, Oct. 3, 2014
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThe topic of evidence and where it leads is of interest to me. Truthiness takes a person elsewhere; truthiness makes for engaging and compelling stories built upon the absence of empirical evidence. As noted at the link in the previous sentence, More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness (2012) provides a definition and an overview (pp. […]
1989 was a critical year in the history of Eastern and Central Europe, and of the world
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillTwenty-five years ago in the summer of 1989, I travelled to the Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia – at that time still under occupation by the Soviet Union. I also travelled to Sweden, which had maintained a state of neutrality, or at least the appearance of it, through the First and Second World […]