Tag: education
group name: iconoclasm
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August 18, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
Time published an article this week by John Cloud entitled Are We Failing Our Geniuses.
In the article he follows a young woman with high intelligence from her held-back life in Texas to a pioneering . . .
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October 20, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
Yesterday at Carnegie Hall, J.K. Rowling revealed that Albus Dumbledore, beloved headmaster of Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter books, is gay.
Entertainment Weekly reports :
Responding to . . .
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March 02, 2008 01:14 AM EST --
Do we really have to choose just one reason that the population of US prisons and jails has increased over 50% in the last four years, from 1.47 million in 2003 , to 2.3 million in 2007 ?
Pew . . .
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May 01, 2007 03:40 PM EDT --
My friend Ron sent me email to an article in Livejournal discussing the dismissal of a manager at MIT for lying about having a degree.
My response was too long for Livejournal's comment limit, so . . .
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March 06, 2008 02:57 AM EST --
Over and over again, in this election season, I hear the presidential primary and presidential campaigns reduced to the cult of personality. Will McCain keep us in Iraq? Will Hillary be business . . .
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April 12, 2007 01:15 AM EDT --
Yesterday on On Point (produced at my own favorite local NPR station, WBUR) an economist was discussing how even though entry level programming jobs would be lost in a global economy, we'd be alright . . .
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February 25, 2008 03:29 PM EST --
Having recently put my endorsement behind Larry Lessig 's run for the House (still in the Draft Lessig stage), let me say that I am adamantly repelled by another run by Ralph Nader. I don't . . .
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June 06, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
It's always a little tricky to report on a news event you've just participated in, but Amnesty International's Irrepressible campaign against Internet censorship just had a conference today . . .
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