https://failuretodisrupt.com/ Imaginations have run wild over the years as to what technology can do to change education. Some had predicted that half or more of courses by now would be offered on line at a lower cost and with great results. It turns out that in this fevered moment, as the pandemic descended upon the …
https://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Strength-Denial-Corporations-Defending-Indefensible/dp/0520296281 Faced with proof that they were harming people or the environment, corporations have long denied evidence, blamed victims complained of witch hunts, attacked their critics and found other rationale for their harmful activities. No denial campaign was more insipid than that of the tobacco industry. That effort set the standard for establishing doubt in …
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691191768/outside-the-box In his book ‘The Box’ Marc Levinson explained how shipping containers were essential in the growth of international trade. Now as he looks at the new wave of globalization, he sees a changing landscape. Countries have begun to recognize, even before the recent pandemic, that supply chains can be precarious and unreliable. And while …
https://www.valwalkerauthor.com/400-friends-and-no-one-to-call/ The concept of true friendship has been challenged by the notion that someone who friends you on Facebook really can be counted on when you’re in need. You can be well-connected in the digital sphere and find yourself isolated and alone when the chips are down. Val Walker, a rehabilitation consultant, grief counselor and …
https://www.amazon.com/End-Everything-Astrophysically-Speaking/dp/198210354X All good things must come to an end, as the song goes. It’s no less true for the universe than it is for love stories. It’s not something we spend much time thinking about because a)it’s too depressing and b)it’s likely billions of years into the future. Please don’t confuse the universe with the …
https://www.amazon.com/Leave-As-Theodore-Roosevelts-Wilderness/dp/1982105046 One wag called it a ‘conservationist rom-com’, when the big personality of Theordore Roosevelt came into contact with the big hole, The Grand Canyon. It was there that he spoke the words which became the title of David Gessner’s new book, ‘Leave It As It Is’. Yet, it seems that Americans can’t leave well …
https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Burger-Inside-Future/dp/0525536949 There is an edible space race on to bring cell cultured meat to market. What is that, you say? It’s having your meat and eating it too. No slaughterhouses, fewer greenhouse gas emissions and sundry new foods derived from stem cells gathered through a biopsy from a living animal, a bioreactor maintaining the temperature, …
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/OK-Boomer-Lets-Talk/Jill-Filipovic/9781982153762 As the father of two millennials, I am on the side of about half of my baby boom generation in regretting the sorry state of affairs we have left on their doorstep. Think about it in these terms: after forty years of the arc of American history bending toward individualism, self-reliance and the desires …
https://www.amazon.com/Pulling-Wisdom-Cross-Cultural-Communication-Healthcare/dp/1642251410 On the news we’ve heard from exhausted, and often frustrated, front line medical workers who have had so much to deal with during the pandemic–lack of PPE,long hours in suffocating garb, a public skeptical of the seriousness of what they face every day and changing protocols as more information has come to light about …
http://calvinbaker.com/a-more-perfect-reunion/ There have been a number of false starts in American history toward the concept of a more equal, more integrated society. Yet, at each turn, those attempts have been blunted by forces that cannot see America without a power and status differential drawn white and black. It could’ve happened at the onset of the …