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Language Learning Service Verbling Launches Google Hangouts-Powered Classes, Adds Support For 9 New Tongues
Always good to have access to cheap ways to learn languages. Continue reading
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Originally posted on Notes On Liberty: Recently the UN voted to make the Palestinian territories as a “non-member observer state,” rather than a “non-member observer entity.” The vote was 73% to 5% with 22% abstaining. As I’ve previously noted, I… Continue reading
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Following up on a Pandodaily reblog I did last week. Paul Carr is totally right: The founder of MailChimp did send a response that should be the template for other founders/CEOs who deal with real critiques of their business. Continue reading
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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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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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Suddenly Brilliance
A new project between me & my long time writing/thinking partner Angela Drummond Matthews. Check it out. About « Suddenly Brilliance. Continue reading
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Fracking and the Fate of the Earth? A Response
A nice response from my colleague Adam Briggle to the piece I posted earlier, “America’s Secret Fracking War.” Ellen Cantarow has a piece out in Salon today titled “America’s Secret Fracking War.” I wish there was a good word for hyperbole… Continue reading
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Today’s Sunset
Originally posted on klentz designs: If you didn’t get a chance to see the sunset from wherever you were, here was the view today from Eden Park, Cincinnati Ohio. Continue reading
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Very good advice on which carbs to embrace and which to avoid. Continue reading
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5 glaring contradictions that sank the GOP – Salon.com
What Obama’s win, alongside surging Democratic senators, disrupted was the dubious marriage between billionaires dying to own the government and fundamentalists dying to institutionalize universal morality. This election exploded Reaganite propaganda that “big government” is the problem by spotlighting the… Continue reading
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Cut-Up 20090805
Dr. Dominguez, Marxist expatriate and former physician to the (red) stars, acknowledgmed today that patients with cognitive symptoms are not imagining things when sound asleep. Being who we really are is something we’re supposed to both savor and exploit in our moments of… Continue reading
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