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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.”

  • 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…

  • Whitehead’s Organicism & Contemporary Cosmology

    Thought provoking piece from Footnotes 2 Plato. Very much worth your time and engagement good brothers & sisters of the Ethersphere. Supposing a properly physical (if not fully metaphysical) “grand unifying theory” is eventually discovered, there still remains the philosophical problem of unifying physics with biology, psychology, and spirituality. During…

  • 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…

  • Leaving the woods

    Leaving the woods

  • 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,…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 4 Eco-Friendly Structures Straight Out of Science Fiction | Cracked.com

    With their usual wit & sarcasm, the Cracked.com team lets us know about some pretty cool structures. A few chuckles does not take away from the feeling of how fricking cool all these things are. 4 Eco-Friendly Structures Straight Out of Science Fiction | Cracked.com.

  • Los Angeles Review of Books – Philosophy As An Art Of Living

    A really nice set of book reviews for some texts I would recommend myself. Along with Pierre Hadot’s Philosohpy as a Way of Life, these are the kinds of texts people should be looking into for changing themselves. As the reviewer states, all this talk about “changing the world” is easy…

  • R&Ex’s 500th Post: The Student Debt Crisis

    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…

  • Driving toward Innovation

    Driving toward Innovation

    Humans have drives–natural & social. Our natural drives we may call our instincts for survival. Our social drives we might refer to as our habits for success. Obviously, in all things, there are times when natural & social impulses conflict. I will deal with that issue in a later blog.…

  • Rochen (Batoidea, Syn.: Rajomorphii)

    Some really great stuff over at hellboy2503. Rochen (Batoidea, Syn.: Rajomorphii).