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“STEM without flowers is just a bare stem…”
…which sometimes can have some BIG thorns… We need more engineers and scientists. That has become the mantra of promoters of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in education. There is nothing wrong with such a rallying cry, except that… Continue reading
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NYC fast-food workers walk out – Salon.com
…New York Communities for Change organizing director Jonathan Westin told Salon the current effort is “the biggest organizing campaign that’s happened in the fast food industry.” A team of 40 NYCC organizers have been meeting with workers for months, spearheading… Continue reading
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The Rise of Democratic Schools and ‘Solutionaries’…
Twenty years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, a 12-year-old girl from Canada, “silenced the world for six minutes” with her raw and powerful oration lambasting adults for dumping the problems they created onto the… Continue reading
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A Liberal Moment – NYTimes.com
Still hard to believe, I told a friend the other day while trying to fathom the election results, that pot is legal in my state, gays are free to marry, and a black man who vowed to raise taxes on… Continue reading
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Lonnie Holley – “All Rendered Truth” – YouTube
via Lonnie Holley – “All Rendered Truth” – YouTube. Continue reading
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Existential Entrepreneurship: Being Sick & Tired of Pseudo-Obligations
Our lives can be our own or they can belong to others. And in saying that, I do not mean that in the former instance we can do what we want and in the latter instance we do only what… Continue reading
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The Audacious & Looming Spectre of Differential Tuition
My mind is completely boggled. Someone can do the relatively simple accounting and see that the humanities–“majors without an immediate job payoff”–are already subsidizing other majors which have a “job payoff.” In fact, this was already done at few institutions,… Continue reading
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Ambition, Self-Promotion, & Military Demagoguery
The series will show how Petraeus was engaged from the beginning of the Iraq war in creating a myth about himself as a commander with unique ability to defeat insurgents, that he knew he had failed in his first two… Continue reading
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