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Who Needs College? The Swiss Opt for Vocational School | TIME.com
This is something we really need to be doing in the USA. I would still encourage folks to learn & be engaged in the arts, humanities, & sciences, but we have to admit that the overwhelming majority of people who… Continue reading
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Dreamstate: Holographic & Multidimensional « Thoughts of a Taoist Babe
Interesting take on things from an artist… and some stunning art as well. For quite awhile now, I have been going on and on about my vivid dreams and the process of dreaming, ad nauseum. Not only have I given… Continue reading
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Tax Incentives to Companies Bleeding Towns Dry, With Few Results
A lot of the abatements & other supports to bring in business to townships & cities centers on one main process: job creation. Yet nobody tracks any meaningful statistics to see if the economic argument holds up. Yes we can… Continue reading
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ARTSblog » Blog Archive » STEM Promotes Science Instruction at the Expense of Humanities
My good sister & colleague Kelli Barr responded to the ARTSblog piece to which I posted a link the other day. Besides a response here at Reason & Existenz, she also wrote a longer reaction at ARTSblog. She goes into… Continue reading
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Dr Rupert Sheldrake: Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. My concern here is with the bigger picture. I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard.… 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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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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New Pew Survey of U.S. Parents
While European legislators are considering adding a ‘right to be forgotten’ to data privacy laws to give internet users some control over who owns their data, U.S. parents are worried about the reputational damage of their teens’ online activities and what… 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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America’s secret fracking war – Salon.com
There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life. In the end,… Continue reading
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Underpants Gnomes: A Critique of the Academic Left « Larval Subjects .
Nice engagement over at Larval Subects of the issues that brought a lot of thinkers I know to put forward notions of “field philosophy.” …Even though these critiques are often right, we express them in ways that only an academic… Continue reading
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Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity
Epistemology can be translated as the study of how we know or an account of how we know. In the article I link to below, UT PhD candidate Mark Coddington does a nice job delineating the different situations which generate… Continue reading
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Poll Quants & the Book of Life
I’ve been unpacking my notions about the Society of Control a lot in the last few months. Primarily of late, this centers on developing the notion that control is about accounting… we use a mathematical model to translate the Life-World… Continue reading
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