Awesome pictures. I wouldn't be hanging around and taking pictures.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Vouchercare Is Not Medicare
Read more at www.nytimes.com
So in voting for the House budget plan, Republicans voted to end Medicare. Saying that isn’t demagoguery, it’s just pointing out the truth.
God Bless You, Mr. Greybeard
Bill Moyers interviews Jane Goodall June 2011
The iconic anthropologist and activist on what chimpanzees tell us about our ultimate destiny, the sixth great extinction, and reasons for hope. An excerpt from Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues from The New Press.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Brain Workshop - a Dual N-Back game
A brain training exercise that really does work
(Medical Xpress) -- Forget about working crossword puzzles and listening to Mozart. If you want to improve your ability to reason and solve new problems, just take a few minutes every day to do a maddening little exercise called n-back training.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Why we have college
Read more at www.newyorker.comMore and more Americans are going to college, but how many of them are actually learning anything?
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
On Political Theology – Paul Kahn
Read more at www.artoftheory.comWhat we can do, however, is pause with respect to any particular belief or practice and ask whether it survives a critical examination. We ask ourselves whether we remain persuaded. We must answer the question honestly. If we fail to say what we actually think, then we will not see ourselves in the discourse. We will not be persuaded, because we are not there. To be there is to make of philosophy a practice of freedom.