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Semaphore & Cairn

Semaphore & Cairn

—–message systems and citizenship—–

  • Semaphore Modern
  • Cairn Everlasting

Author: Ken Smith

These pieces were not written by the late British poet, Ken Smith (1938-2003), nor the other Ken Smiths who make bass guitars, study marine biology, sell cars, teach card counting, paint war scenes in oils, guide bear hunters in Idaho, teach forest management, study immunology, do war reporting, sell real estate, photograph nature, teach cryptology, provide legal counsel to the gay and lesbian community, realign the spines of athletes, listen for seismic faults in the Sierra Nevadas, operate a 4-axis milling machine, work for sustainable development in Alberta, play blackjack, or criticize Junk English. Nor were the pieces written by the Ken Smith who is “the Elvis Costello of Landscape Architecture” nor the one who serves in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives nor the one who hit a home run for the Atlanta Braves in 1983. I only wish.

Women hunters often experience sexist harassment at retail stores, hunting conferences, and out in the field.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/12/21/female-hunters-share-tales-sexism/20696377/

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 22, 2014December 22, 2014

The @UIowaPress sketches eight ways academic writing must change to have a chance for a wider audience.

http://uiowapress.org/authors/dissertations.htm

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 21, 2014December 21, 2014

At mixed holiday gatherings, a prayer can emphasize our differences or our common ground. We choose how we speak.

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 21, 2014December 21, 2014

On not disparaging students–a teacher’s note to self in #grading season. Plus a William Carlos Williams parody.

http://10x14s.smallpict.com/2014/12/17/#a1418818224

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 17, 2014December 17, 2014

Silence 102. “We conspire in this concealment: we don’t want to know.” @georgemonbiot

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/16/perpetual-denial-food-meat-production-environmental-devastation

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 16, 2014December 16, 2014

Silence 101. “What can you say about a society whose food production must be hidden from public view?”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/16/perpetual-denial-food-meat-production-environmental-devastation

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 16, 2014

The trap of seeming to be neutral–a brief case study by @JayRosen_nyu.

https://storify.com/jayrosen_nyu/my-reaction-to-chuck-todd-interviewing-dick-cheney

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 16, 2014

The news niceties a journalist must break to challenge a master like Cheney, by ever-witty @JayRosen_nyu.

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 16, 2014

The science that explains “Why People Don’t Believe In Climate Science.” (Hint: that science is mostly psychology.)

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 16, 2014December 16, 2014

#IllRideWithYou says we can walk and sit and talk together. We can promise each other things that matter.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/sydney-siege-promise-illridewithyou

Ken Smith Uncategorized December 16, 2014December 16, 2014

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