Note, this post is based on a book review I wrote for school. It’s a very good book, and I wanted to share some of the main topics. I cut down about 40%, especially my own analyses (which were tenous at best). This is my first attempt at posting something not written originally for the [...]
I have known about Brigit Brock Utne, a professor in international education at the University of Oslo, for several months, since I came across her homepage, which has a very impressive CV and a list of “Where is Birgit in 2006″. Her CV reads like a list of all the things that I would like [...]
I first became aware of the process of unionizing the workers at SODEXHO during a meeting, where we were shown the excellent movie “Occupation” about students staging a sit-in at Harvard university - the second wealthiest non-profit in the world, after the Vatican - to fight for living wages for the university staff. They also [...]
Voices from the Edge, by Ruth O’Brien, is one of the books I picked up by random while studying in Robart’s Library. Although I have a few friends involved in accessability for people with disabilities, and I volunteered for three months at a community of people with disabilities in Mexico, I did not know much [...]
As I grew up, I always loved reading. I spent my days off in the town library, where all the staff knew me, and if my mother couldn’t find me, she would call them and ask for me. I graduated from the children’s department on the second floor at the age of 12, and started [...]
I had the good fortune to listen to Sachs speak at the biannual CIDA conference in Ottawa last year. Although I had read things about him before the meeting describing him as some sort of “economic hitman”, I was impressed by his presentation. Now I just finished reading his book End of Poverty, Economic Possibilities [...]
This was on my reading list for a long time, finally picked it up at the Denver Public Library and read it in one sitting. Here are my as usual cryptic notes.
First example: put 750 marbles in a glass and have a group guess independently. The average will be very close to the truth.
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Some tidbits:
Just saw the movie The Butterfly Effect, and I quite liked it. I’ve seen a few other movies where they use “innovative” (maybe it once was) techniques of jumping to and from in times (Memento comes to mind as a very good example), others were characters struggle with loss of memory, alternate dimensions, thinking [...]
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh is an amazing book, and highly recommended. I picked it up on the airport, since I knew Ghosh from his In an Antique Land, which we read in anthropology. I liked that book, although I was somewhat sceptical to it’s value as an ethnography (which was why we read [...]
I became interested in BRAC after listening to a presentation at the Dean’s Graduate Conference at OISE (an otherwise very interesting conference), and decided to read up on it. This thesis was in the OISE library, and I couldn’t check it out, so I had to return three times to finish reading it. Quite enjoyable [...]
