December 20, 2024
[image: image.png] *Tim Snyder’s book On Tyranny was inspired by this blog post* lesson 6 *Be kind to our language. Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. (Don’t use the Internet before bed. Charge your gadgets away from your bedroom, and read.) What to read? Perhaps The Power of the Powerless <www.vaclavhavel.cz/showtrans.php?cat=eseje&val=2_aj_eseje.html&typ=HTML> by Václav Havel, 1984 by George Orwell, The Captive Mind by Czesław Milosz, The Rebel by Albert Camus, The Origins of Totalitarianism by **Hannah Arendt, or Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev*
Part one: Jeffrey Solochek Tampa Bay Times education reporter *Benefited from slavery? critics say some of the state’s exemplar were never even slave. the battle over Florida’s new African American history standards grow more heated.*
Part two: U of Georgia Professor Tony Wolf As heat records fall, how hot is too hot for the human body?
listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Tim Snyder, On Tyranny, Jeffrey Solochek, Tampa Bay Times, education, Florida, black history, slavery, skills, U. of Georgia, Professor Tony Wolf, theconversation.com, heat, humidity, wet bulb temperature, climate crisis