Monthly Archives: May 2018

Remembering Belleau Wood – a century of sacrifice

Posted on May 28, 2018 by editor, facilitator, decider

On Memorial Day we honor those service members who made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation. It’s fitting and fortuitous then that Memorial Day 2018 falls so closely to the centenary of the pivotal First World War Battle of Belleau … Continue reading →

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Innovation to the rescue

Posted on May 24, 2018 by editor, facilitator, decider

Here are a couple inconvenient truths for you: anthropogenic (i.e., human-caused) climate change is a fact, and we’re now way past the tipping point where behavior changes can avert disaster. So what is left to us? Glad you asked. Though the … Continue reading →

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Donald Glover’s American philosophy

Posted on May 14, 2018 by editor, facilitator, decider

Definitions fail us when we attempt to classify Donald Glover’s four-minute manifesto, This Is America. It’s a music video only in the most limiting sense. More accurately, it’s an experience, and not necessarily a pleasant one. DBA “Childish Gambino” (legend … Continue reading →

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Txt like an Egyptian

Posted on May 8, 2018 by editor, facilitator, decider

. . In a move sure to be cheered by classicists everywhere, the Unicode Consortium group, they who  guard the emoji gates, have proposed adding more than 2,000 Egyptian hieroglyphs to the approved character sets encoded on new smart phones, … Continue reading →

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Another “new” Da Vinci

Posted on May 4, 2018 by editor, facilitator, decider

Every few years, it seems, the world is treated to a new Da Vinci attribution—that is, some Renaissance painting that held low-key status in a minor collection suddenly goes stratospheric as it is newly credited to the maestro himself, Leonardo … Continue reading →

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