Browsing Archive: September, 2017

TURTLES, TURTLES, TURTLES!

Posted by Daniel S. on Tuesday, September 19, 2017, In : books 
As the author of the award-winning "Color-Me-Please" children's book, THE TURTLE DANCES (Savant 2015), I make it my responsibility to visit the North Shore of Oahu island pretty much every week to check and see if any of the Hawaiian Green Sea turtles are dancing. Silly? Not really. I've spent countless hours watching them surf happily in the incoming waves. The operational word here is "in" as they use their natural built-in surfboards, their shells, more like a horizontal stabilizer riding ...
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EDUCATION AND THE BIG LIE

Posted by Daniel S. on Sunday, September 3, 2017, In : Evaluation 
If the currency of business is money (ask President Trump), then the currency of education, or, more accurately academia, is truth. Academic (truth) was always the counterweight for business (money), holding us in the end to a moral/ethical standard. But what today constitutes truth? It's a slippery slope at best these days. 

I still recall a time before computers first appeared! Couple that with the sheer magnitude and ease of access of the Internet, and I also recall the first academic paper...
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Whales Go International

Posted by Daniel S. on Friday, September 1, 2017, In : books 
It is my distinct pleasure to announce that A WHALE'S TALE (Savant 2009) by multi-award-winning children's author Daniel S. Janik just entered Portuguese waters under the nome de plume CONTO DE UMA BALEIA (Savant 2017). Now available from Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Tolino, Scribd and Book Republic. #portugal #whale #children's books





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Author/Actor Daniel S. Janik (aka author Raymond Gaynor/Gary Martine) A retired physician turned author, actor, dancer, educator, naturalist, former publisher, Daniel S. "Dan" Janik has plenty to say.

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