Pricing Fossil Fuels Out of the Market

That article presents long-anticipated news from Bloomberg Technology that particularly in emerging markets, unsubsidized solar is less expensive than wind or fossil fuels.

Reframing the Message on Climate Change

This Scientific American article takes a while to get to the point made by its headline, but has a great call to action for liberals to shape their message to appeal to the American mainstream.

Educational Engineering

My latest scholarly publication is Chapter 14 of monograph published for the 25th anniversary of the English Teachers’ Association in the Republic of China (ETA-ROC), in November.

Educational Engineering for CALL and MALL, is an invited article on curriculum development, taking an engineering approach to developing outcome requirements and then engineering a theory-based system that will accomplish those outcomes.  The CALL and MALL in the title refers to Computer Assisted Language Learning and Mobile Assisted Language Learning.  But it's all Mass Communication to me.

The overall monograph, Epoch Making in English Language Teaching and Learning, is out in hard copy and CD.  I am not sure when or where it may eventually be available online, other than my pre-press version on ResearchGate.

It may be cited as:

Marek, M. W., & Wu, W. C. V. (2016). Educational Engineering for CALL and MALL. In Leung, Yiu-nam (Ed.), Epoch Making in English Language Teaching and Learning, Twenty-fifth International Symposium on English Teaching, English Teachers’ Association, Republic of China (pp. 115-125).

Geese and Climate Change

The geese used to migrate in late October and early November.  Now they are migrating in December.

They have apparently bought in to the global conspiracy of thousands of scientists created by Mainland China to take money out of the pockets of hardworking billionaires.

Darn geese.

Surprising Realities of Oil Imports and Exports

Why does American export oil at the same time it imports huge quantities?

The economics of oil crude exports and imports are strange. U.S. Oil Exports are Skyrocketing, while at the same time we import 7.3 million barrels of oil a day. Why?