11Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics (2023) is among many books I’ve read about the topicDecember 12, 2022/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
12Nov. 6, 2021 CBC News Second Opinion article: COVID-19 spreads through the air. Here’s what you can do about it this winter. “Canada is now an outlier in terms of not acknowledging transmission through the air.”November 6, 2021/0 Comments/in Commentary, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
13From the Toronto Public Library website, you can access Erving Goffman’s 1982 presidential address to the American Sociological AssociationAugust 6, 2021/0 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
14Erving Goffman devoted his career to the structured, intensive study of ‘what’s going on’July 18, 2021/0 Comments/in Commentary, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
15What gave rise to the ‘modern movement’ in architecture? Was it the European Industrial Revolution or the 1918 pandemic?July 8, 2021/0 Comments/in Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
16As Erving Goffman has noted, what goes on in gambling establishments and risk-taking situations in general is worth close studyJuly 8, 2021/1 Comment/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
17Framing of stories is a central feature of communicationsJune 11, 2021/1 Comment/in Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
18I was impressed with Deanna Kreisel’s Aug. 8, 2020 Medium article, “The Unraveling of ‘The Unraveling of America.'” Good show!August 8, 2020/0 Comments/in Commentary, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
19South Korea and Germany are doing extensive COVID-19 testing; Province of Ontario has not been doing much testing at allApril 5, 2020/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
20The real driver of innovation isn’t lone geniuses but state investment; innovation is the product of a process akin to evolutionNovember 30, 2019/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill