Farewell, Profile

I have been waiting for this moment for a long time.
As I am retired from my position at Profile School, I wish good luck to all of you, teachers, paras, staff, administrators. We have had a really good run together. 
For most of these past 21 years, and in spite of vicious assaults, Profile has kept its flamboyance and magic, thanks to your dedication and camaraderie.  I am honored and grateful to have been part of this adventure. May good winds take you to beautiful, surprising shores.

Dr Jacques-Jude Lepine

CLI-FI: Emerging literary genre helps fighting suicidal climate change denial

STRANGER THAN FICTION

Rising seas, unprecedented storms and dystopian landscapes are fodder for powerful stories. Beyond entertainment or distraction, could the emerging genre of climate fiction (Cli-Fi) actually help us avoid the worst impacts of climate change? Stanford biological anthropologist and environmental scientist James Holland Jones thinks so. The Long Now Foundation, a future-focused think tank, recently invited Jones to give a public talk on the subject, in which he discussed the physiology and neuroscience of storytelling and narrative and why this makes stories a particularly powerful way to communicate complex information.

See Jones'talk here with a list of Cli-Fi novels

from the Stanford Wood Institute for the Environment

The Wall in Pink Floyd and US Politics. by JJ Lépine

Make the Most of your Chromebook

As I see a growing number of staff members getting into Chromebooks (who would blame them? Say good bye to start up delays, long virus scans, maintenance needs, cumbersome installations, disrupting updates, etc...), here are a few tips to get the most of them. One that is so helpful: you may use the most important  productivity apps even when offline.  Enjoy!