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10 Ruble Russian Coin featuring cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (Photo by Mike) Today is “Day of the Soviet Space Program (Cosmonautics)” for Russians – a day to remember the cosmonaut and national hero Yuri Gagarin, who on April 12, fifty years ago, was blasted into orbit from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. [...] Once upon a time, in the days of university when I was going to school, and playing in a rock band, and booking shows, and doing some fanzines and graphics work, I bumped into a friend of a friend. We exchanged laughs and email addresses. His email address was unforgettable. It was “ican@ucant.com”. I had [...] An interesting series is starting tonight on TVO. Here’s a description from their website: “The written word: in prehistoric times, it took the form of drawings in caves. Today it speeds past on the screens of our electronic devices at the touch of a finger. How did the simple act of reading come to be? [...] Today in the Toronto Star there is an interesting article on the disappearance of “Italiese,” a Toronto-specific dialect of Italian that was spoken frequently a generation ago. The article touches on the larger issue of global language extinction and ponders what the relationship of language is to culture and how, internationally, societies become increasingly homogeneous as the [...] Mike and the Bolsheviks in the Moskva Metro Well, of course, I’m not back from the “CCCP” but back from it’s biggest former member, Russia. I spent an amazing two weeks traveling in mostly southern Russia. I spent a week and a half in a city called Rostov (na-Donu) which is near the Azov and [...] I found some interesting articles regarding the Olympics, China and the evolution and use of English. Alongside stories about the upcoming Olympics and the sports and politics, some discussion has been going on about the use of English in China, and in particular the butchering of the language by Chinese sign-makers using antiquated dictionaries/thesauruses (and [...] |
Mike Simpson is a teacher, writer, musician and designer from Toronto, Canada. He is a new media enthusiast and has been "strongandfree" since 1996. Mike is working on new graphic design, developing websites and multimedia, and leading training workshops on weekends. Check out Strong+Free for his Design and Media work. Check out Mike's Edu-Tech Workshop site. Please contact him at this address: mike | strongandfree.ca 
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