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About davidbdale

My name honors my mother Beatrice (Bea) and my father Dale. I am the author of 299 Very Short Novels and several plays and the Artistic Director of Must See Theater company.

Course Evaluations

Posted on December 2, 2021 by davidbdale

Please help the Writing Arts Department determine my fitness for instruction by completing a brief evaluation of your experiences in this course. Check Banner for a reminder that you have a survey to answer, or check your student emails for … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hawking Was Wrong

Posted on December 2, 2021 by davidbdale

I shared this post with you today in class before I found this perfect expression of why we can always say with confidence that “the scientist was wrong.” The opening joke (attributed to Albert Einstein) tells the whole story. How … Continue reading →

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Text: Nuclear Power, Worth the Risk?

Posted on November 16, 2021 by davidbdale

Catastrophes happen. No one thought the Interstate 35W bridge across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis would collapse. No one thought the Gulf of Mexico would be fouled to the horrible extent that it was by the BP oil spill. The … Continue reading →

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Redemption Song

Posted on November 16, 2021 by davidbdale

If you don’t cry, I don’t want to know you.

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Rebuttal Practice

Posted on November 11, 2021 by davidbdale

A Price Too High Is Nuclear Power Worth the Risk? Link to the Text without the New York Times’ interference! 🙂 Bob Herbert asks the question in the Opinion pages of the New York Times. It’s pretty clear from the … Continue reading →

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Robust Verbs—davidbdale

Posted on November 4, 2021 by davidbdale

There is a huge problem in Vancouver with heroin addicts committing crimes to support their habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program is doing everything they can to stop the addicts. The problem is that there is a large crime … Continue reading →

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Draft Causal with Feedback

Posted on October 27, 2021 by davidbdale

9/11 Made America More Racist It seems that racism has been around since before the dawn of time itself. It has thrived in the best and worst of times and in every corner of the earth, doing particularly well in … Continue reading →

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Safer Saws Task

Posted on October 21, 2021 by davidbdale

Exultant InventorTwelve years ago an avid home woodworker invented an ingenious device that stops a table saw blade within 4/1000ths of a second of contact with human flesh. The technology could prevent thousands of amputations every year in the United … Continue reading →

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Safer Saws Model—hazelnutlatte

Posted on October 21, 2021 by davidbdale

Safer Saws Task- HazelnutLatte Posted on March 5, 2019 by hazelnutlatte123 1.Manufacturers: “less than a thousandth of a second.” The manufacturer is explaining how long the machine will take to stop when it comes in contact with the conductivity of human flesh. This is a … Continue reading →

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Why We Blog

Posted on October 21, 2021 by davidbdale

Before You Post to Safer Saws We blog to learn from one another. This course is conducted “in public” as it were to benefit every student with the opportunity to view, analyze, appreciate, learn from, even emulate the work of … Continue reading →

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