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Climate Conversations SC, Episode 2: Dr. Tameria Warren

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Bob

Click here to go to the podcast. Bob  00:27 Welcome to another Climate Conversations SC. I’m your host Bob Petrulis. Climate Conversations SC as a podcast of the Climate-Ready Columbia Conference coming up on April 1st and 2nd, 2022. This … Continue reading →

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Climate Conversations, Episode 1: Sustainable Midlands

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Bob

Episode posted February 28, 2022 Link to the podcast is here. Transcript Bob  00:12 Welcome to Episode One of Climate Conversations. I’m your host Bob Petrulis. Climate Conversations is a podcast of the Climate-Ready Columbia Conference coming up on April … Continue reading →

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Online learning resources

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Bob

Got kids staying home because school’s closed? Here are some online learning resources, compiled by my friend Jen Albert at The Citadel: COLLECTIONS OF RESOURCES IN GOOGLE DOCS: http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/ – List of providers that have made resources and services free … Continue reading →

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Book Challenge: Day 7

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Bob

On my last book challenge day, I continue my cheating ways by again sharing two books. These are by the same author, American University history professor Ibram X. Kendi. They are Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist … Continue reading →

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Book Challenge: Day 6

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Bob

So many books, so few days! I’m not going to even get to a whole raft of significant ones! Arrrrgh! What’s a person to do? Cheat, of course. So today, I’m sharing two books on a theme: The Madhouse Effect: … Continue reading →

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Book Challenge: Day 5

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Bob

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, by Robert Sapolsky Robert Sapolsky is a primatologist and neurobiologist who has spent his career studying how biology, the brain, the environment, and genes interact to produce animal (and human) … Continue reading →

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Book Challenge: Day 4

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Bob

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood I had to include something by Margaret Atwood on my list since she’s such a wonderful novelist. Of course, her best-known novel is The Handmaid’s Tale, and that would have been a great addition to … Continue reading →

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Book Challenge: Day 3.

Posted on September 29, 2019 by Bob

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, by Iain McGilchrist The author is a brain researcher who has spent his career understanding how the structure of the human brain influences how we … Continue reading →

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Book Challenge, Day 2

Posted on September 28, 2019 by Bob

Foucault’s Pendulum, by Umberto Eco. These days I don’t read as much fiction as I once did. Here’s an exception, Foucault’s Pendulum by the Italian writer and semiotician Umberto Eco. He’s probably best known for his novel The Name of … Continue reading →

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Book Challenge, Day 1

Posted on September 28, 2019 by Bob

I’m accepting a challenge from my high school English teacher Barbara Bass to post a book a day. Day number 1: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson. This book is a … Continue reading →

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