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Forum: Is the U.S.A. the Greatest Country?

October 8, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

Last night at my Toastmasters meeting (it’s a club devoted to help member practice their public speaking), a presenter asked[…]

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Eight Great Maps Explaining Our World

October 3, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

More than geography, these maps offer a picto-statistical image of poignant facts about humanity. I ran into them on the[…]

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This ended up in the garbage after a rough day teaching at an inner city school in Minneapolis.

September 26, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

I was told walking in they were tough, but I’ve been told that before. This class, it turned out, was[…]

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Mail Order Heroin

September 24, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

I once talked to a former drug addict who was a roadie for a rock-n-roll band. He shared about getting[…]

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Every Human In America As a Dot

September 16, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

A map created at the University of Virginia provides a layout of everyone in America–yes, everyone, which means something like[…]

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Largest Cave in the World Discovered

September 10, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

In 1991, Vietnamese man Ho Khanh was wandering the wilderness of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park: He didn’t want to[…]

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False Prognostication

September 4, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

I recently read how when the Twitter guys were first starting out many people told them, “That’ll never catch on.”[…]

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A School Without Computers

August 29, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

As you may have read earlier this month, I was asked to help a school in Tanzania, Africa raise money[…]

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On Syria

August 28, 2013 niaroo Uncategorized

Hello The Periphery readers! My name is Niaroo. I’m what you might call an extra terrestrial, or simply, an alien.[…]

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North Dakota Drones

August 21, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

Because they’ve been the vehicle for a lot of bad news and have become a symbol for government overreach, I’m[…]

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