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Days of miracle and wonder, indeed
For about ten years, I’ve been running a project in my Honors Physics course called Days of Miracle and Wonder (yes, title taken from a Paul Simon song). In it, the students are asked to create a business case for … Continue reading
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I might just be succumbing to the lure of reliving my misspent youth…
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Seconded…
This piece from the Atlantic captures my feeling pretty close to exactly, re: the recent Rand Paul flap on the Civil Rights Act and his alleged “courage”. In particular, the conclusion: Now, after the police dogs, night-sticks and fire-hoses have … Continue reading
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Too true…
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Even better visualization of Facebook’s vanishing privacy
This (http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/) is an animated illustration of how Facebook has been increasingly defining your personal data as “open to everyone”.
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Facebook’s vanishing privacy
The EFF has an excellent timeline of the changes in the privacy policy at Facebook. It’s worth a read for anyone who might consider Facebook either (a) private in any sense or (b) ethically reliable in any sense. These changes … Continue reading
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Deep pondering
Does this story serve to expose the hypocrisy of the Republican Party’s self-proclaimed credentials as the “party of family values” (in that the RNC paid for an evening at “a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex”)? Or … Continue reading
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Republican Party to disband, according to RNC Chair Michael Steele
I mean, what else might he have meant when he said: We will not hand our children a poorer, weaker America than the one we inherited. After eight years of surplus-to-deficit magic, unfunded giveaways, two wars (one of which was … Continue reading
