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Nicolas Hénin, author of Jihad Academy (2015), is featured in a Feb. 16, 2016 CBC The Current interview. Here is a link to the transcript.
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillNicolas Hénin is author of Jihad Academy: A Former ISIS Hostage and Veteran Middle East Journalist Explores Misperceptions of Islamic State and Their Consequences (2015). A February 16, 2016 CBC The Current transcript of an interview with Hénin can be accessed here. The interview is of interest. If I recall correctly, I decided to borrow the book, from […]
The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China (2015) addresses the translation of hegemonic discourses
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA blurb at the Toronto Public Library website for The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China (2015) by Luigi Tomba notes that, “At times of conflict and in daily interactions, the penetration of the state discourse about social stability becomes clear.” China’s political and social change In The Government Next Door (2015) Luigi Tomba, addresses how stories are […]
‘Top 25 Hottest Articles’ at ScienceDirect at the Journal of Fluency Disorders
/1 Comment/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThe ‘Top 25 Hottest Articles’ at ScienceDirect at the Journal of Fluency Disorders can be accessed here. I receive this list by email, a few times a year, because I have signed up some years ago to be on the subscription list. This kind of information is of interest in particular for people who stutter, […]
What is Social Innovation? Good question
/0 Comments/in Jane's Walk, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillIn previous posts, such as one at the link below, I have noted that I do not know what a Jane’s Walk is: What is a Jane’s Walk? It’s an open-ended concept Similarly, I do not know what Social Innovation is: A Jane’s Walk is a walking conversation, or walking lecture, or starts as lecture, […]
Comment from Charles Tsiang (MCHS ’62) at the post at which Elvis Presley said that the image is one thing and the human being is another
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’ve recently taken a break from work on the MCHS 2015 Reunion, but work has now resumed. My absence from the volunteer task of helping to organize the reunion, a task that focuses on the wider community, of which I am a part, is accounted for by the fact that a government agency alerted me […]
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. […]