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  • Etymology of “Wanderlust”

    With the German verb wandern literally meaning “to hike,” the literal definition of the compounded “wanderlust” is a “desire to hike” although it has been colloquially appropriated to encompass strollers and roamers in a looser sense. http://nowheremag.com/2013/04/etymology-of-wanderlust/

  • Chomsky-Foucault debate removed due to copyright | ROAR Magazine

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions In a grandiose display of Foucauldian irony, one of the greatest anti-capitalist debates of our time has been reduced to an intellectual commodity. See on roarmag.org

  • Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley | Video on TED.com

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. See on www.ted.com

  • Flute مزمار

    beautiful

  • why are sex workers left out of the Violence Against Women conversation at the UN?

    A very good question.

  • Frack Me

    Originally posted on The Dish: Not everyone is saying “not in my backyard”: On Tuesday, voters in Youngstown, Ohio, gave the fracking industry carte blanche to continue pumping chemicals into the ground beneath them and pumping natural gas out. A city charter amendment that would have outlawed hydraulic fracturing in the…

  • ‘Fossil’ Words Are Older Than We Thought

    The origin of some of the words we use today go back much further than scientists once thought, suggesting an Ice Age-era proto-language that spawned many of the world’s contemporary linguistic groups, according to a new study by a group of U.K.-based scientists Study: ‘Fossil’ Words Are Older Than We…

  • Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind

    Just a tad bit too fracking cool really. Cannot believe I did not hear about this two years ago.

  • Learning Theory – What are the established learning theories?

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Learning Theory, zone of proximal development The area of capabilities that learners can exhibit with support from a teacher., Montessori constructivism, Lave & Wenger… See on cmapspublic3.ihmc.us

  • Shooting Sparrows

    Originally posted on A is for: Shooting Sparrows You’re spittin’ in the wind, kid, Living like that, life ain’t never gonna change, it’s a summary of what we did and the strength that we’ve maintained. There’s a limited supply of life so Pick your battles carefully, learn when to fight…

  • ” Pedagogy Vs Andragogy ” Chart

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: At what point does a youth transition from adolescent to adult? See on www.educatorstechnology.com

  • News Roundup — Continuing Ed MOOCs for Teachers, XPU College Readiness MOOC – moocnewsandreviews.com

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The biggest development this week is the announcement of new classes on Coursera that particularly focus on continuing ed MOOCs for teachers. See on moocnewsandreviews.com

  • Subversive education

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Noam Chomsky on Wednesday joined Bruno della Chiesa, a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in an Askwith Forum covering the legacy of the radical Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997)… According to Chomsky, known for his outspoken politics, Freire viewed learning as…

  • What is the Easiest Practice?

    What is the Easiest Practice?

    Originally posted on How To Practice Zen: What could be easier than just letting go? If we had nothing to hold on to, nothing to reach for, nothing to drop, what would that be like? What about dropping opinions about politics? Sports? Religion?  A Zen master once famously shouted as he saw…

  • Norse Energy Corp. v. Town of Dryden: Court upholds New York town’s fracking ban.

    New piece at Slate by my friend & colleague  Adam Briggle. For a while, it looked like we were scraping the bottom of Earth’s barrel of fossil fuels. Then along came hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling, and now some argue that we might never run out of the stuff,…

  • Academic funding and the public interest: The death of political science – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

      While I am very sure that my style would quickly fall under the rubric of those who try to avoid criticism by a kind of jargony bad writing, I do agree with many points being made here.   The loss of NSF funding is a loss for American political…

  • Watch A Flash Mob Recreate Rembrandt In A Dutch Mall

    Pretty Cool.

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    There has been a lot of writing lately against the New Atheists. I do not ally myself with them because I do not like the way Dawkins, Harris, or Hitchins perpetuate violent conflict (see Karl Jaspers, Philosophie Vol 2 on the limit situation of struggle). But I do think these…