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About the Observer Effect


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About the Observer Effect


About

Six years ago, I started asking strangers to tell me their travel stories. I want to learn how people change.

Among the four hundred interviews I've conducted are refugees, migrants, tourists, pilgrims and expatriates.

If you're a new listener, you might start with ...

Episode 102: War Photographer

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the observer effect

is The theory in physics that examining changes things.

“Observations not only disturb what has to be measured, they produce it… We compel [the electron]

to assume a definite position… We ourselves produce the results of measurements.”

—Pascual jordan

About


the observer effect

is The theory in physics that examining changes things.

“Observations not only disturb what has to be measured, they produce it… We compel [the electron]

to assume a definite position… We ourselves produce the results of measurements.”

—Pascual jordan

joe voigts

 

Since 2007, I have been teaching English in China, South Korea, Laos, the U.S., Spain, Greece, Morocco, Italy, Israel, Bangladesh, and online. I produce this weekly podcast of travel stories, The Observer Effect, to become a better listener.

See what reading informs my work here.

I last lived in Jerusalem, Israel. For the four years prior, I moved every few weeks to a new country.  See where I travel here.

Jerusalem, Israel 2019 (by Jihad Swidan)

Interviewing Hazem in Bethlehem, West Bank in front of the Separation Wall of Israel and Palestine 2020 (by Ilmari Kumpula)

Interviewing Hazem in Bethlehem, West Bank in front of the Separation Wall of Israel and Palestine 2020 (by Ilmari Kumpula)

Trolltunga, Norway 2016 (by Allison Rupp)

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Venice, Italy 2019 (by Taylor Mathews)

Venice, Italy 2019 (by Taylor Mathews)

Erg Chebbi, Morocco 2018 (by Leon Johenneken)

Erg Chebbi, Morocco 2018 (by Leon Johenneken)

Where we are is who we are.
— Fernando Pessoa