Education
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The World as Will | John Michael Greer
Arthur SchopenhauerFeb. 15, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- It's impressively easy to misunderstand the point made in last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report. To say that the world we experience is ...
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The Notion of Democracy | Emanuele Corso
Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Feb. 2, 2017 Democracy in the United States has become notional. Perhaps it has always been this way and we simply haven’t noticed. Our beliefs are always either ...
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Thoughts on 'It Can’t Happen Here' | Emanuele Corso
Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust I wrote this essay last November following the election. I was disheartened, to say the least, and I am republishing here as a reflection on current developments ...
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Nothing fundamentally wrong with US public education | Emanuele Corso
Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Jan. 19, 2017 There is nothing fundamentally wrong with public education in the United States; it is not the monster right-wing millionaires and their on-a-leash ...
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It’s not a level playing field. It’s a jigsaw puzzle with a lot of missing pieces. | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 15, 2017 “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal ...
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Building the Institutions for Revolt | Chris Hedges
Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jan. 15, 2017 (Truthdig) -- Politics is a game of fear. Those who do not have the ability to make power elites afraid do not succeed. All of the movements that opened up the ...
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BOOKS: The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men | Mickey Z. interviews Robert Jensen
By Ryan McGuire. gratisography.com Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 10, 2017 “It seemed that there was a need for a book that laid out the problem of patriarchy in plain language.” (Robert Jensen) ...
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How Not To Write Like An Archdruid | John Michael Greer
From apastyle.org Jan. 4, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- Among the occasional amusements I get from writing these weekly essays are earnest comments from people who want to correct my writing style. I ...
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New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another Climate Feedback Loop | Andrea Germanos
Arctic Tundra. (Photo: USFWS) "What we know from this study is that warming will result in the loss of stored carbon in a wide variety of ecosystems -- and that has potentially harmful effects in ...
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The Case Against Reality | Amanda Gefter
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman explains why human perceptions of an independent reality are all illusions. A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we ...
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Fraction Magic -- Part 1: Votes Are Being Counted As Fractions Instead Of Whole Numbers | Bev Harris
Bev Harris -- BlackBoxVoting.org May 12, 2016 SUMMARY This report summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS election management system, which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in ...
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