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Triona Ryan

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Where Did All Our Time Go? A Kuaidi Kween Komments

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A kettle sits in my front garden, inside a wedge of polystyrene in a cardboard box. I know for sure it is a kettle, because I justbought a new one. On Taobao.  The piercing whistle of the old one has...
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Maps & Boundaries; The Greatest Human Fictions

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Alexander Von Humboldt. Carl Ritter. Alfred Russel Wallace. Paul Vidal de La Blache. Jared Diamond. Yifu Tuan. David Harvey. Milton Santos.  All of these geographers spent the greater part of the 18th, 19th and 20th century, hopping about the planet,...
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The Rise of AI in Teamwork; Taking the Team Out of I-work

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"There’s no ‘I’ in the word team." How many times has this old chestnut been trotted out by educators and coaches worldwide to inspire and entice reluctant collaborators? Too many, probably. Definitely so many that one definitive rejoinder is now...
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Our Community of Leprechauns; Just Stop Saying Thank You

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I knew my nap from my siesta, my Irish stew from my cocido and my Céili dancing from my flamenco. I thought I was solid on all fronts.  And then, Nanjing.  Nothing and no-one could have prepared me for the deep...
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You Share the Same Home; But Do You also Look Like Each Other?

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They are good for us, apparently. From the immune system to the health benefits to the souls, animals make us lead happier lives, or so the research goes.  One Harvard study boldly claims that “pet owners are less likely to...
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A Chisel of Convenience; In Praise of Procrastination!

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For those of us blessed with the need for convenience, at its most potent and circumspect, the ability to take no corner that may be cut, to streamline a process on par with the boarding and take-off of an...
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Never Ever Have I Ever

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I am moving house again. Unwillingly, for the first time ever. My landlord wants to fix all the leaks and cracks and damp and then live there, so we must once again decamp. For the first time ever, I...
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Explanations for Absolutely EVERYTHING (are Part of the Problem)

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Knowing the right answer. If you’ve ever spent three hours at the kitchen table sobbing over 3 x 7 = ???, you’ll intuitively understand the urgency around finding the “right” answer.  Indeed, in disciplines such as Mathematics or the Natural...
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About Me

Educator, writer, minstrel and Collector of Rare and Marvelous Moments; Triona Ryan, born in Ireland, moved to Spain for the summer back in 2003 and stayed for a decade. Now based in Nanjing, China, she spends her free time feeding her cats, picking cushions off the floor and pondering the paradoxes of the human condition. She also sings, often and everywhere.
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