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  • 2: “Do your Research!” John Turek History Teacher

    2: “Do your Research!” John Turek History Teacher

    1 – Intro: Interview with History Teacher John Turek on the importance of teaching and learning History to children, the practical value of knowing your local history, the joys of teaching junior high students, and how we can understand and improve our city by knowing the history of other cities. 2– Guest bio: John Turek… Read more

  • 1: “So.. It’s Cancer?” Trailer

    1: “So.. It’s Cancer?” Trailer

    So doc, it’s Cancer? is a podcast dedicated to being a “how-to” manual for cancer patients and their friends and families.Each month we will work through different elements of the overall problem, “from soup to nuts” as they say, beginning at the beginning such as the the basics of what cancer is, who may be… Read more

  • Lenin, Stalin & Memorial Day in the USA

    It’s Memorial Day in the USA and I just had the extreme pleasure of being on the sidewalk waving and clapping at our annual neighborhood Memorial Day Parade with close friends of ours and their neighbors and everyone’s pet dogs. Fire trucks from the surrounding six suburbs, Police cars as well, local politicians, marching bands,… Read more

  • 1: School Superintendent Dr. Robert McBride

    1: School Superintendent Dr. Robert McBride

    Join us for an hour with the fascinating and brilliant Dr. Robert McBride, superintendent of Lockport Schools, for a discussion on education, leadership, and how to teach kids despite a Covid pandemic. 2 – Guest bio 3 – Timestamps: *[00:40] Intro *[01:40] Interest in Education; Oak Park & River Forest High School, Northwestern undergraduate English/Writing,… Read more

  • A Memoir?

    It seems egotistical and obnoxious, writing your own memoir.  And a self-portrait on the cover?!?  C’mon, really? Reasonable as those sentiments may be, and believe me I’ve experienced them over this, there are reasons behind the project which I hope will expiate me.  The project was borne out of necessity, and from there it evolved. At first I… Read more

  • The Internet as the globe’s psyche

    The invention of the internet is something as profound for humanity as Prometheus’ discovery of fire, and over time will be just as transformative. It’s a worldwide neural network, a communal brain for the globe, and more importantly a psyche for the entire globe. What is that? what exactly is a “psyche” and how could… Read more