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Aphorism 12 Dec 2012
The goal of science is the utility of understanding. The target of philosophizing is the beauty of comprehension.
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Kazakhstan Beats Alabama On Science Tests
“Poverty, race, and opportunity are every bit as important to the educational success of students as what they do while sitting in class. If we want to improve a nation’s intellectual and entrepreneurial spirit, it will take much more than memorizing facts.”
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Inner Feelings
Originally posted on Broken Light Collective: Photo taken by Luis Rosado, a Floor Supervisor and Lighting Technician of a film equipment rental house. He has been suffering from anxiety and depression for over 30 years, and has been sober for 4 years from an alcohol problem that lasted over 20…
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Stability and Change
Originally posted on Larval Subjects .: The important thing to understand that it is not the possibility of change, motion, and becoming that needs explanation, but rather persistence, stability, and endurance. It is a stable entity that is improbable, not entropy. If we begin from a meta/physics premised on stability…
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Conservative Progress & Same-Sex Marriage
I suppose in the circles that Matalin travels in, this would be considered uber-progressive. It def is a kind of progress. Republican political strategist Mary Matalin must have finally gotten the message that a growing number of Americans support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. On ABC’s This Week,…
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Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: “If you want to be a happy person, do not read a self-help book: have happier friends.” RSA Animate – 21st century enlightenment – YouTube.
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Booted from plum committee seats, three GOP reps want answers – CNN Political Ticker – CNN.com Blogs
Let’s see… They regularly voted against how the party leadership needed t hem to vote. They often spoke about GOP leadership as unworthy of their position when even the hint of compromise with Democrats looked possible. They are more concerned about their ideological dogma than about the legislative process. They…
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R&Ex’s 500th Post: The Student Debt Crisis
Thanks to all of those who have been reading this blog and spurring me on to keep posting. The other day I passed 10,000 views. And today is another milestone: the 500th post. I wanted to be sure and pick something that I believe highlights the generational issues of Boomers…
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Adding Color To The Most Iconic Photos In History | The Roosevelts
I usually don’t go in for the colorizing of B&W. This is probably a holdover of when the fad was colorizing films, some of which directors had purposefully chosen to do in B&W as an aspect of the film. But looking over these, which were mostly in B&W because realistically…
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2012… ?
Originally posted on HeartSphere: Shifting, returning, completing, becoming, harmonizing, beginning… or ending? These few words come to mind when I think of a certain subject that originally caught my attention almost 15 years ago. And, especially fitting for the timeframe, I still have a few thoughts concerning the sphere of…
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Science Progress publicizes study of beliefs about hydraulic fracturing for natural gas
Originally posted on tothesungod: http://scienceprogress.org/2012/12/technology-and-society-fracking-ideology/ As a follow up to the Science Progress article I co-authored with Dr. Adam Briggle earlier this July, we have written another short piece that again explains the subject of our study, Technology and Society: Fracking Ideology, and requests reader participation. You can find the article linked here and…
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