LA Review of Books: The Educational Lottery by Steven Brint

On the four kinds of heretics attacking the gospel of education. "In short, we will need to turn our backs on assumptions of our most fervent boosters of universal higher education: that access alone is the primary purpose, and that when students and teachers are co-present, education occurs. The challenge will be to reweave the uneven and tattered undergraduate experience in more durable and vivid patterns."

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LA Review of Books: The Educational Lottery by Steven Brint

On the four kinds of heretics attacking the gospel of education. "In short, we will need to turn our backs on assumptions of our most fervent boosters of universal higher education: that access alone is the primary purpose, and that when students and teachers are co-present, education occurs. The challenge will be to reweave the uneven and tattered undergraduate experience in more durable and vivid patterns."

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Privatizing Liberty

URL:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/privatizing-libe...

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State of Siege USA: Why Would They Target #Occupy Now?

URL:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/state-of-siege-u...

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"I'm Getting Arrested" App Creators Slammed With Feature Requests

URL:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amelia-marzec/occupy-wall...

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Mimicking synapses in silicon

URL:  http://www.kurzweilai.net/mimicking-synapses-in-silicon

More news for cyborgs.

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Google Music, iTunes Match, and Amazon Cloud Drive: Digital Music Services Comparison

URL:  https://www.pcworld.com/article/244102/google_music_itu...

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Google Music, iTunes Match, and Amazon Cloud Drive: Digital Music Services Comparison

URL:  https://www.pcworld.com/article/244102/google_music_itu...

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In Minn. Redistricting Battle, Powerful Players Clash — With Citizens on Sidelines

URL:  https://www.propublica.org/article/in-minn-redistrictin...

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Ari Melber: The Right Way to Politicize the Penn State Scandal

http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/11/16/ari-melber-the-right-wa...

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Fake Check Scams Continue to Spread

URL:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-alderman/fake-check...

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Future US Job Opportunities Fall Into 16 Clusters, Report Finds

URL:  http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/future-us-careers-1999/

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"Big Bang" machine to get huge upgrade in 2020

URL:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/16/us-science-co...

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Middle-Class Areas Shrink as Income Gap Grows, New Report Finds

URL:  https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/us/middle-class-area...

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Tom Coburn: $30 Billion In Millionaires Aid Is 'Sheer Washington Stupidity'

URL:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/tom-coburn-30-...

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American Corporations Owe Nothing to American Workers, and That's a Big Part of the Problem.

URL:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-smirniotopoulos/ame...

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Confidence Game

http://www.cjr.org/feature/confidence_game.php?page=all

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The Truth about Violence

URL:  http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-truth-about-viol...

3 Principles of Self-Defense

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Fracking Pros And Cons: Weighing In On Hydraulic Fracturing

URL:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/fracking-pros-...

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Artificial War On Christmas Campaign Launches Fake Obama "Christmas Tree Tax"

URL:  http://mediamatters.org/blog/201111090001

This is how the game is played.

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A New Angle on Targeted Drug Design

URL:  http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2002/02/04-01.htm...

Even if you have cancer and are brain-dead, your body may make a contribution to medical science.

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Elizabeth Warren: U.S. Business 'Rigged To Work For The Big Guys'

URL:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/elizabeth-warr...

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Paterno Wants to Retire at End of Season

When men cry.

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Christmas Ornaments, Packed Like Sardines

URL:  http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/christmas...

A physicist was playing with steel ball bearings, trying to pack them into a little cylindrical tube in the most efficient way possible...

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High-Speed Rail, Despite Stumbles, Is Booming

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