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Delivering a Five Minute Lecture on Zoom

The talk, "The Lower Great Lakes Climate, Water, Flooding, and Political Implications" discussed the challenges facing civil engineers in designing for lake breeze convergence fronts which cause significant short bursts of rainfall in very short periods of time.

Updating my Flickr Photos

I'm making use of podcast listening time to process, edit, and upload my photo collection to my Flickr account. Take a visit over at https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeycoleman_ca/ Setup working on the counter at The Seedworks during Summer 2017

Advertising Drop on Radio

There were basically no ads, no discussion from the host, and nobody making celebratory requests during today's Classic Country Saturday Night radio show. I listen to KMDL out of Louisiana most Saturday nights, it's a ritual. Usually, the show contains a sufficient amount of advertising from the entertainment and food sectors. Today, I don't recall any advertisements. A portion of

COVID-19: The Day We'll Never Forget, as a UofT Fellow-at-Large

Anxious Anticipation, this is the word of the day. My first draft of history, how I experienced today.

From Populism to Principlism

In Central Europe, which has been plagued by corruption and populist exploitation, Slovakia just elected a pro rule-of-law party.

Holi at Massey College

Photographs, and thoughts on pausing entry into mislife as a Fellow-at-Large at the University of Toronto

Groundhog Day, Again

I've been a fan of the movie since I first saw it in theatres, I enjoyed it. Over the years, I've come to enjoy the analysis of the movie. How long did Phil Connor repeat the same day?

Multi-Ball VI - January 29, 2020

Daily Reading and Thoughts

Multi-Ball V - January 28, 2020

Daily Reading and Thoughts

Trains to Life, Trains to Death - Constant Reminders of the Holocaust in Berlin

How a week in Berlin changed my perspective on the Holocaust, and how chilling it is to walk in the spaces those who were murdered lived their lives before hate took control of Germany.

You Better Be Local to Cover Local

Entitled "Want to cover local? Then you'd better BE local!", Niles explains why non-local journalists leave communities less informed, less engaged, and with fewer reasons to support journalism.

CJR: In Justin Amash, a litmus test for partisan media’s influence

Justin Amash is the fifth-term representative for Michigan’s Third Congressional District, elected five times as a Republican, Amash is now an independent. He wrote about why he left the Republican Party in a July op-ed published by the Washington Post. He, like all members of the House of Representatives, faces voters in 2020. Lauren Harris of the Columbia Journalism

Notepad: Conservatives, Media Credibility, and Journalistic Norms

During the next nine months, my blog will become a notepad of sorts for my research at the University of Toronto as a Journalism Fellow. Tonight's reading, is "A Multilevel Examination of Local Newspaper Credibility" from the Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 95, no. 1 (March 2018): 76–95. (Free access article) The study sent out 4,000 survey questionnaires,

A Nice Invite from the Winnipeg Boys and Girls Clubs

I lived in Winnipeg for one year, during which time I did so volunteering with the Boys and Girls Clubs there. In reality, not much volunteering, maybe 75, maybe 100 at most, hours of involvement. I learned a lot in those short hours. One of the moments that challenged my lived experiences, at age 22, the most was a conversation

On Pressed Black Pants

I was that guy in high school, pressed black pants every day. What some may call dressing for success; but at its root there was a practicality to this - I found that Moore's sold good pants at a fair price, and eventually they became my entire pant wardrope. "Boring" as my closest friend often remarked. Black shoes (running shoes,