Modeling Atoms: When You Don’t Have Much, Make Creative Use of The Little You Do

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At under-funded and resource-strapped public schools in Nepal, teaching science in a way that brings the subject alive for students can be a major challenge. What the teachers at such schools do have is themselves and their students. There's no reason they shouldn't be using their own students (by having them model structures for example) in an effort to get across difficult and challenging science concepts and ideas!

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Shame On Us!

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What is something in Nepal that those who SHOULD have it don't and those who SHOULDN'T do?

SHAME!

A TedTalk on shame that could help us in Nepal to think of shame differently and make social progress!

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So You Want to Volunteer at an Orphanage in Nepal? Don’t!

Earlier this month, the evening of April 5 to be precise, I gave a presentation at Wisdom Wednesdays series of talks at Paddy Foley's organized by NGN. The series, and therefore the talk, is about ETHICAL voluntourism. I volunteered to give the presentation as a contribution towards the organizer's efforts to #StopOrphanTrips to Nepal.

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UWC SSS Boston: Education for Freedom

Video of my presentation at UWC-Second-Saturday-at-Six gathering in Boston last February in which I describe why I do what I do for the education of the marginalized in Nepal and the impact of the April and May 2015 earthquakes on the schools COMMITTED works with in Sindhupalchok.

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Rosenfield Program: Human Rights and Education of Marginalized People of Nepal

Video of April 2014 Rosenfield Program presentation at Grinnell College. It covers the plight of marginalized groups, such as Dalits, women, Tharus and Tamangs both in the country and abroad, and what COMMITTED is doing about it all.

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