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The Economist, Teachers, and Unions
The Economist magazine takes a pretty standard economist view of teacher’s unions when looking at issues with USian education this week: All this would be technically simple to […]
Evolving Society
Our society resembles – in many ways – that of some of our great ape relatives. This has led some scientists to posit “sociobiology”; that is, that our […]
Remixing Printcrime
Printcrime Remixed – Abulafia Random GeneratorsGods, this is good. Corey Doctorow’s short-short _Printcrime_ is randomly remixed (a la postmodernism) via computer with every page refresh.What separates this from […]
Redefining Heroes
KunsthausThis is amazingly cool on so many levels – as an art geek, as a comics geek, as a sociology geek, as an economics geek, and just as […]
Virtual Stuff *IS* real
This is absolutely fascinating, given the correlations between real life and virtual life implied by the virtual Milgram study. New World Notes: FIGHTING THE FRONT I’m pretty sure […]