Podcast:Play in new window|Download Subscribe:RSS Episode 74 – Jon Black No preference for medium but a natural geography and cluster in terms of word counts Mix of a plotter and pantser. Influenced by role-pl
I can’t count the number of times I’ve been proven right on both counts during the past decade, but I do know that one of those memorable occasions was writing the 2007 Gruber Prize announcement — my first release on Suntzeff, now that he officially was at Texas A&M, and my first...
you’re wasting away in water distress, a.k.a. now is when you want to be a hero, donning overalls and having a new plunger and wrench in hand. Read more
the royal family, and theAcademy of Magesall have their own private libraries, the public library is considered to be far better stocked. This is thanks to all new scholars writing or translating a new book and all merchants importing books being...
Alternatives were few for a young veteran earning $40 a week, who, as Flannery noted, couldn’t afford a $10,000 house. With this kind of urgency and the accompanying political social pressure, getting the vets and their new families into suitable and inexpensive housing quickly would require...
robotic platforms over time [26,28]. As social robots are a new emerging technology that is still novel and exciting for most, users often have high expectations for social robots and experience dissonance when a social robot’s performance fails to meet their expectations. Accordingly, when ...
This bankruptcy of the NUS, especially with the ‘Quebec model’ looming large will reignite the arguments for a new campaigning national students union, like that of CLASSE. So what are our tasks and do we have the capability to live up to them? Tasks of the left The NUS at the Zone...
Practical methods for facilitating process improvement are needed to support high quality, safe care. How best to specify (identify and define) process improvements – the changes that need to be made in a healthcare process – remains a key question. Me
However, after spending the years 1884–86 in Siberia, Kennan had this to say (in a letter quoted by Mrs. Dawes in the August 1888 issue of the American magazineThe Century): “What I saw and learned in Siberia stirred me to the very depth of my soul – opened to me a new world ...
(agents) within this system. In response to the new resources introduced into the system by the programme, a change in the actors’ behaviour or their interactions with systemic elements could create a new way of doing things and thus result in the programme outcome. This “new way of doing...