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#91 Tsjintiidkuier
“The elites may be disproportionately monolingual.” — Workshop participant Earlier this year, I spent International Mother Language Day facilitating…
Jasper Visser
May 23
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#90 Flight
First, this week, I spotted a sheet weaver in our back garden. I’m sure it’s a new species to arrive there, as I had to google the beautiful spider…
Jasper Visser
May 15
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#89 Sing
Anticipating rain that didn’t come, we went to see Sing 2 in a cinema in Zeeland on Saturday. Except for Bono, a great movie. (Bono voices a musician…
Jasper Visser
May 9
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#88 False equivalences
We’re fortunate in Amsterdam to have the John Adams Institute. We’re even happier that they’ve started releasing some of their lectures as podcasts…
Jasper Visser
Apr 30
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#87 Around the world
“Geotagged iPhone photos are often some of my only clues that I have been somewhere or done something; I cherish them as proof that I, at one point…
Jasper Visser
Apr 25
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#86 Openings
Thanks to the Romans’ shenanigans almost two thousand years ago, this irregular update is late. My apologies. While some say it is winter in Europe…
Jasper Visser
Apr 19
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#85 One, two, three
One: Congratulations to the Rijksmuseum and their collaboration with Guerrilla in Horizon Forbidden West. It’s lovely to see old and new art merge and…
Jasper Visser
Apr 11
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#84 Imagine if…
“Human history is a race between education and catastrophe.” — HG Wells quoted in Imagine if… I have a bachelors in educational science, which I haven’t…
Jasper Visser
Apr 4
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#83 The sun also rises
In a case of frequency illusion, I’ve been bouncing between The Sun Also Rises and For Whom The Bell Tolls this week. Both, of course, are Hemingway…
Jasper Visser
Mar 27
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#82 The fifteen-year review
Two years to the day after I fled home on my bike from a meeting, trying to outrun the “novel Corona virus,” I finally tested positive. Fit, vaccinated…
Jasper Visser
Mar 20
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#81 These truths
I stopped reading when Putin re-ignited his war in Ukraine. I had just started in These Truths, which I had been looking forward to since I had put it…
Jasper Visser
Mar 14
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#80 🇺🇦
In July of 1914, the Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez found himself on a boat traveling from Buenos Aires to Paris. The first signs of the…
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Mar 4
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