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• Massively Open Online Medicine: Bad Idea or Just Before Its Time?--David Harlow

  
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  The new darling of the online educational community is Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The example which figures most prominently in the popular imagination is the Khan Academy, though its founder says otherwise, noting that MOOCs are merely online transplantations of traditional courses , while Khan Academy ...
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• How To Reach Your Customers Through Email Marketng

  
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  TIP! Ensure that you only email people who have opted in to your list. Sending emails to people who didn’t request them is called spamming. Many people would like to build their business through email marketing, but do not know exactly how to get started. Marketing with email offers many ways to help you build [...]
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• Truthiness and American Humor

  
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  Stephen Colbert, in the inaugural episode of the Colbert Report (October 17, 2005), coined the word truthiness to capture the underlying absurdity of the human preference to assert a truth that arises from a devout belief in one’s gut rather than one supported by facts (see: Colbert Introduces Truthiness ...
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• Signs and Extended Metaphor

  
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  Signs pull apart the totality of perception. Tearing holes in the field of relationships. Stopping the eye and the mind. Forcing a precipitation of some part held in opposition. This post is illustrated by a series of images of my work from various “genres” and across the span of three decades. This essay begins ...
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• The trouble with ‘fulsome’

  
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  The word fulsome is used quite regularly by public figures in Ireland, often politicians promising or demanding apologies. Whenever this happens, it is criticised as an “incorrect” usage: see for example this letter to the Irish Times , which supports its point by reference to the AP Stylebook . This is not ...
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• Do you want firm, weasely abs?

  
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  Weaseling is a form of informational misdirection.  You get your audience to agree to a very weak version of a commitment, then proceed as if they’ve agreed to a stronger version.  The greatest weasel ever was in Dumb and Dumber when unattainable romantic interest in the film says that one of the dumb guys only ...
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• Graduating MSW Students—Are They Ready For the World?

  
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  A number of my students are graduating soon. Are they prepared? read more
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• The Moral of a Recent Second Circuit Opinion: Don’t Rely on Commas for Disambiguation

  
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  Via this post by Ray Ward I learned of the recent opinion of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in AIG v. Bank of America (PDF copy here ). In the opinion, the court states that whether a modifying phrase following a list of nouns or phrases modifies each item on the entire list, or only the last item, depends on ...
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• Ambiguity is an Entrepreneur’s Worst Enemy

  
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  Photo cred: luv life Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter Drucker I despise ambiguity. Every time it shows its stinking, snarling face, I have to use all my strength to face it head on and avoid curling up into a ball in the corner.  Luckily, since ...
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• The Certainty of Ambiguity in Leadership

  
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  This post is a refreshed version of one written originally in  June, 2009. ============================================= Anyone who has ever been in a leadership role for longer than, oh, five minutes, knows that leadership is not a prescriptive thing.  As simple as we try to make it with lists of the ten top ...
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• Bad Habits

  
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  I saw a magazine cover that had a teaser for an article by Dr. Oz. The list of things I could learn in his “Healthy-Life Handbook” included “Facts You Must Know,” “Tests You Need Most,” and this: Bad Habits to Break Let’s see, what would be a bad habit to break? Getting some exercise every day — it ...
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• How to Lead Your Church When You Don’t Have All the Facts (Guest Blogger Donald E. Ross)

  
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  This is Dr. Donald E. Ross – one of Nelson’s  Advanced Coaching Alumni , Renegade Pastor and Lead Pastor of Creekside Church in the Seattle, Washington Area – and I want to share with you some thoughts about an issue each of us faces in leadership… ambiguity: Every leader wants clarity , and so do ...
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• Our Henry James

  
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  By John Carlos Rowe As we anticipate the public release this year of Scot McGehee’s and David Siegel’s film, What Maisie Knew , which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on 7 September 2012, I wonder once again what drives popular fascination with Henry James’s fiction in our postmodern condition? Of ...
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• Attachment ambiguity in "Frazz"

  
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  Todays " Frazz " (via Ed Cormany on Twitter): The confusion here is reminiscent of the discussion on Neal Whitmans Literal-Minded blog about the expression, "I need to pee like a racehorse." Neal explains, "This is an example of an attachment ambiguity, in that we could theoretically attach the modifier ...
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