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You’re Going to Have to Educate Yourself 0
- Education
- December 4, 2015
Let’s face it: we all have holes in our education. In part, this is because we can only fit so much into the years of our formal education. But the holes in our education are also due to the fact that we no longer have a standard canon of sources that we are expected to
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It’s terrorism, but the vibe out there is strange.0
- Culture
- December 4, 2015
At this point, there is an odd sort of quiet on social media regarding the San Bernardino shootings. The list of what’s currently trending at mid-day on Friday after all of the revelations that indicate that the shooting was an act of terrorism is quite curious: Planned Parenthood funding, Scott Weiland, Iowa, Facebook, and Laquan
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How One Teacher Discovered That iPads in the Classroom are a Bad Idea 0
- Education
- December 3, 2015
In the last few years, countless school districts have passed initiatives to get iPads in the hands of every student. The rationale is that access to technology will improve learning and shrink achievement gaps between white and non-white students. But as teacher Launa Hall discovered, iPads in the classroom actually deter learning and other important
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What Happened to Doing Good Things in Secret?0
- Culture
- December 3, 2015
Yesterday, the internet was filled with praise for the story of a woman who bought a cake (pictured above) decorated by an employee with autism. NBC News reports: “Lisa Sarber Aldrich of Grand Rapids wrote on Facebook that she went to a Meijer grocery store to pick out a cake when she asked a ‘bakery-looking
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10 Rather Sobering Quotes from Joseph Conrad 0
- History
- December 3, 2015
1. “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.” 2. “It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.” 3. “A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.” 4.
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The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things Are Written on the Sky 0
- Culture
- December 3, 2015
The end of the twentieth century of the Christian era is not far distant, and all about us things fall apart. There comes to my mind the last drawing from the pencil of William Hogarth, who died in 1764: it is a sufficient representation of the state of civilization today. Hogarth’s final drawing is known
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