Recent Exercises

  • WDI part 2

    The World’s workshop started yesterday and it appears that we have around 25-30 students involved. The first day wasn’t just housekeeping matters and such – we managed to…

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  • Belgrade, Serbia – Dialogue 08

    We’ve just completed the week or so long workshop in World’s debate here in Belgrade, and I must say that I was very impressed with the whole event.…

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  • Notes from the WDI

    There are a few things I expect to do every summer that I come to the University of Vermont to teach at the World Debate Institute. One is…

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  • World Debate Institute in Burlington, VT

    I’m afraid I’m just not able to keep up a daily posting regimen like I thought I would up here in Burlington. Hopefully that ends today. I am…

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  • Internet Privacy

    Talk about big aspriations: Pirate Bay wants to encrypt the entire Internet. Privacy is an interesting issue; I’ve been interested in it since I coached the high school…

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  • Another half-baked journalist

    In this recent article: The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete we again find that what is not obsolete is the same tired…

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