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Mike Rowe and the Need to Bring Back Shop Class
- Culture, Economics, Education, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 21, 2025
A group of archeologists have recently concluded that it wasn’t just climate change that lead to the sudden disappearance of the Pueblo ancestors who used to occupy the Mesa Verde cliff-dwellings roughly 800 years ago. While historical climate change impacts are certainly relevant to our times, archeologists’ beliefs that migrants and culture clashes had a
READ MOREMy first feeling for Meryl Streep was embarrassment. The three-time Oscar-winner’s speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday brought to mind a cocktail reception I once attended. A nice young woman couldn’t resist injecting politics into polite conversation in mixed company. It was awkward for everyone but her. People politely smiled, much like the actors
READ MOREWhen Merriam-Webster announced that its word of the year for 2023 was “authentic,” it did so with over a month to go in the calendar year. Even then, the dictionary publisher was late to the game. In a lexicographic form of Christmas creep, Collins English Dictionary announced its 2023 word of the year, “AI,” on
READ MOREWhen the U.S. created NATO, a primary purpose of the alliance was to serve as a western wall to defend Germany against the 400,000 Russian troops on the eastern side of the Elbe River. Seventy years later, Germany has decided to double its dependence on Vladimir Putin’s Russia for the natural gas needed to run
READ MOREWidowed at just 26 years of age, Amy Morin knows a few things about hardship and the struggle to remain mentally strong in the face of adversity. Despite the tragedy she suffered, Morin has gone on to become a psychotherapist, columnist, and author. Her most recent book is 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do.
READ MOREAccording to Dr Andrea Davies, of the University of Leicester’s School of Business, “male academics should say the word ‘menopause’ at least three times a day in solidarity with their female colleagues” to enable them to discuss it “without embarrassment”. To this end she has “organised the monthly Leicester Menopause Cafe, where male and female
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