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Agnotology
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.
Read More Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
&& the classic: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160105-the-man-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance
Curious, we consider that knowledge spreads, but ignorance is forever opposed ... Consider Donald Trump ...
OYR HPR Bradbury
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Theatre
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And this, the second in the HPR series. "Experimental". I applaud experimental, it's the foundation of science and all new things...
This was not even remotely successful, redeemed only by the fact it weighed in at a scant hour...
They tried. They failed, I suffered through it. And I'd drop more names but I've seen other of their work that I liked, and so like all theatre and experiments you chalk it up to experience and the chance you take...
The Sicilian Hairdresser
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- Category: Miscellany
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The salad girl at work is a hairdresser, Sicilian, and she's been cutting the staff's hair.
I'd been there once, gotten mine cut, she did a good job, and then after she would serve dollar store biscuits and coffee and her husband would talk about how waiters shouldn't be tipped and nobody here knows what their doing and isn't real estate expensive until your eyes rolled back in your head and you bled from your ears...
She wouldn't take any money for the cut, and the visit grew a little overly long, strained, tiny cups of espresso, stale biscuits and giant old-world opinions...
So on Saturday, I'd been warned I needed a trim, a busy day with registering the vehicle, insurance, errands, I stop along the way for a generic haircut. I'm long past the point where a haircut can make me look good, and the quick in-out pay option appeals to me, I get it done in half an hour...I've no hairdresser loyalty whatsoever...
But at work she spies I've had my hair cut, by another, and the shit hits the fan, this is the worst haircut ever, that she's ever seen (it's not that bad, really), and why didn't I call her...and I can't really explain but she's now carrying a grudge, an imagined slight to her talents in this department, and I'm damned, damned, damned...
Calgary, Lake Louise, The Trading Post
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A few images from the past few weeks...
(taken by me and the daughter upon leaving the Forest Lawn Women In Need)
(Lake Louise, note the selfies...)
(The trading post...)
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