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The Problems with American Journalism in 2008: This is a line by line analysis of one story from the Denver Post on education. It suggests how a poorly trained and overworked reporter could be led to simplistic conclusions by a skillful use of public relations prose. see |
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Let’s Blame the Universities: Our country’s failures can be laid at the feet of our elite universities. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, along with most other elite schools, do a poor job educating students to think. They focus instead, through the filter of standardized tests to create hordes of competent systems managers. The collapse of the country runs in a direct line from the manicured quadrangles and halls in places like Cambridge, MA and Princeton, NJ. see |
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Agriculture or Religion: Which the chicken? Which the egg? Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. Schmidt calls Gobekli Tepe the site of the world's oldest temple. see |
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Agriculture or Religion: Which the chicken? Which the egg? Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. Schmidt calls Gobekli Tepe the site of the world's oldest temple. see |
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A Chinese Takeover of Africa? That seems to be one of the policies that the Chinese leadership is investing in. From Nigeria in the north, to Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Angola in the west, across Chad and Sudan in the east, and south through Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, China has seized a vice-like grip on a continent which officials have decided is crucial to the superpower's long-term survival. see |
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Warfare is no Longer “Purely Military.” The days when countries duked it out on the battlefield are over. Whether it is called "terrorism" or "asymmetrical warfare" or "fourth-generation warfare," modern fighting no longer involves WW-II style conventional war between nation-states. see |
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Jonathan Rauch’s Perceptive Essay about the differences between the British and the Americans. In the British cabbie, Rauch finds something of his country in that sadly ineffectual yet touchingly helpful driver. Britons are decent people who try much harder to be good than to be successful. By contrast, under an ordinary American, you find a man with a dream, a scheme, a plan. He will save the world or get filthy rich or, usually, both. Generally, of course, his scheme is crackers, but isn't that part of the fun? see |
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Georgia Guidestones: Something like an American Stonehenge, this Wired article traces the construction of the five sided, polished granite monument with 16 foot tall, 20 ton columns and a 25,000-pound capstone. Built in 1980, these pale gray rocks give survival instructionins once the the world as we know it has ended. see |
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Multiple Intelligences is a lovely theory proposed by Howard Gardner in 1983. Every child can have a special area of competence. All children have potential. It’s a theory that makes us feel good. It’s a theory that has guided much educational practice. There is only one problem with it. It’s wrong. see |
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