Articles by: Oddgeir Tveiten

Fresh Air Radio — on a Saturday

It´s the economy, stupid: Bill said it–did Hillary listen?Sometimes you wish Bill was back, but there´s another story I have in mind right here: Not the story of how Hillary Clinton failed to take Bill Clinton´s most important piece of insight with her into her own presidential bid. Not, the story of how her failing to address the fundamentals of economic inequality in a convincing manner, led to the election

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Trump Watch: Four years to come

Peoples´choice. I read, and I try to follow the arguments. All I know is that no one — absolutely no one – has a clue. What happens next, when a man is elected president one day and the day before was generally declared either “saviour” by half of the general public or “unfit for the office of president” by the entire establishment — except for Bob Dole, News Gingrich, Rudolph

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Thinking about the Donald

As  days pass by, the number of photos of Donald Trump will increase, as will the general impression they give. Less fun with his hair and more focus on the statesman. Meanwhile, these photos  figured at the top of my own search right now. And the Saturday Night Live version of Donald Trump – by Alec Baldwin – is a saver.

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Visual futures of education

How do students respond to the challenge of making stuff in class, rather than commenting on stuff in your usual group interactions? What happens when you ask them to express themselves differently, and together? Exploring new formats for student interaction – also known as collaborative learning? At our World Learning Summit in June 2016, WeVideo presented their tool for cloud-based, collaborative video production. They were with us at our Stanford

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Various interview segments; Leonard Cohen

  Stina Dabrowski interviews Leonard Cohen in Paris in 2001. Includes conversations from Mt. Baldy Zen Center, 1997. Also recitations of “The Correct Attitude” and “Sorrows of the Elderly” and “Because Of.” Check out the original source here: http://www.webheights.net/speakingcoh…

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