Pissed Off: Unaccountable Education Mayor
(This bear has better living conditions than some NYC students have learning conditions–thank you Mr. Education Mayor.) What happened the the education Mayor’s promise to get rid of all trailer classrooms? …
Tag Archives: september
Thrasymachus: Diet
I thought that it was one of the best researched ‘popular’ science books that I had ever come across. The basic advice was that carbohydrate drives insulin drives fat. So I kicked out most carbohydrates from my diet.
International Education Statistics: Global Education Digest 2009
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has published the 2009 edition of its annual Global Education Digest. The GED presents the latest statistics on pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary education , education finance, …
Dept. of straw men (and other animals) « A Thinking Reed
The “moral equivalence” line is a staple of anti- animal -rights rhetoric.
Virginia Glee Club: the musical comedy years (Jarrett House North)
Yeah, the Glee Club did some of their “musical comedy ” in blackface. I guess this isn’t surprising in a group doing musical comedy in the South in the early 20th century, but it’s still sobering to realize that the Glee Club really was …
Eternal Remont:: Putin: Loves Animals, Probably Hates Skype
But he can’t be a true outdoorsman, unless he has regularly scheduled photo ops with animals . This year’s adventure took him the Pacific island of Chkalov, where upon Putin donned a wetsuit off and got cozy with a beluga whale named …
Xinjiang Travel Incentive of the Century | Xinjiang: Far West China
Mountains? Deserts? Yaks?
LACMA jettisons film program
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art–the largest art museum in the western United States–announced yesterday that it will be shutting down its roughly 40-year-old film program this fall. Along with the UCLA Film and Television Archive …
enterprise could have saved a lot on printing costs with this sign …
the blog of conscious comic and vigilante pundit Baratunde Thurston.
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Fun And Games With Human Misery
Here’s a fun game to play with friends, particularly friends who work on social ventures or other world-changing projects. Ask each person what issues they’d work on if they were given $500 million, $50 million or $5 million dollars to …