Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?

  • Why Academia.edu and Not Quora? Automation Failure in Machine Learning (A.I.) and the Truth Value of Community Education

    Why Academia.edu and Not Quora? Automation Failure in Machine Learning (A.I.) and the Truth Value of Community Education

    Why Academia.edu and Not Quora? Automation Failure in Machine Learning (A.I.) and the Truth Value of Community Education [Teaching Document Copy] “Quora advertises with the slogan ‘The best answer to any question’, ‘Quora aggregates questions and answers to topics. Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users’ answers’” (Anon 2015, ‘quora’).”…

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  • Geo-Political Debate in Australia: An American-Australian Relational (Intellectual-Cultural) Reading

    Geo-Political Debate in Australia: An American-Australian Relational (Intellectual-Cultural) Reading

    Former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s intervention on the Labor Government’s decision on the AUKUS agreement for increasing Australia’s defence capability in the Asia-Pacific region, is as helpful as it (also) muddies the waters of local-regional-national interactional discussions.   ANU’s Mark Kenny is reported in The New York Times as he explained the essential problem:  …

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  • After SVB collapse: Banking in Australia

    After SVB collapse: Banking in Australia

    The timing of it was interesting for me personally on the global narrative of the collapse of SVB and Signature. On Monday my application with the Commonwealth for a credit card was denied, and I put it down to my income and budget based on a slow business model. The Big Banks will not support…

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  • Jesus Revolution: Film Propaganda or History?

    Jesus Revolution: Film Propaganda or History?

    Night 25 of the 2023 American Tour I am pleased for lives transformed in such a way that a person is taken out of a spiral downwards and into a stable and sustainable lifestyle, BUT does it have to be at the cost of understanding a bigger world? Take the film “Jesus Revolution” and Cannons’…

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  • School Shooting as Normality?

    School Shooting as Normality?

    School Shooting as Normality…When will Americans “get it” Comment on: https://wapo.st/3YtMR4g Perspective by John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich, “After Parkland: What we’ve learned tracking school shootings for 5 years.” The total number of children exposed to gun violence at school has exploded, rising from 187,000 in 2018 to 338,000 now, a Washington Post analysis…

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  • Sinclair Lewis Collection at PWPL

    Sinclair Lewis Collection at PWPL

    Featured Image: Dr Neville Buch in the Sinclair Lewis Collection, Port Washington, Long Island, New York State (USA). Dear Dr. Buch, It was a pleasure to meet you this afternoon and show you the PWPL’s materials on Sinclair Lewis. Here is a link to a Google Arts and Culture page the History Center put together…

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  • Letter. Explaining Myself in the Hope of Dialogue, 29 January 2023

    Letter. Explaining Myself in the Hope of Dialogue, 29 January 2023

    Dear American friends, I am leaving Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, tonight, for a country I have critically admired my whole life. It is the second trip, the last in 30 years (1991-1992). An intelligent conversation, the last few days, has indicated to me that I need to clarify where I am coming from as an American-Australian…

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  • HA Inc. Medium Publication. A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland

    HA Inc. Medium Publication. A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland

    A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland, published by Humanist Australia Inc. on the Medium platform. Follow the link: https://medium.com/australian-humanist/a-critical-review-of-2022-theos-annual-lecture-by-tom-holland-d4268e11e7c0

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  • Explaining Neville’s Historiography (Dr Neville Buch ABN 86703686642)

    Explaining Neville’s Historiography (Dr Neville Buch ABN 86703686642)

    In a conversation with one of the members in the international Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Mathematics Facebook Group, it came to me how I can explain my historiography. The context here is community education and research, but the university academics have missed much in the significance of my work for their own historical conclusions.…

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  • Regarding Our Education Systems Needing Thinking in Contemporaneous Compatibilist Epistemology

    Regarding Our Education Systems Needing Thinking in Contemporaneous Compatibilist Epistemology

    The 2022 Australian and New Zealand History of Education (ANZHES) Conference From selections of the ANZHES Newsletter December 2022, with comments. This blog article — call it what you like — “academic”, “populist”, “community”, any political semantics, to ignore it, Minister of Education, cannot be so dismissed. The communities demand an answer on the state…

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