Tuesday, December 01, 2020

1 December - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

 

  Have You Heard

  • TweetAre you a graduate student whose research on K-12 or higher education is ready for the podcast limelight? Then we have 30 minutes of prime audio real estate with your name on it...

  • TweetLong before the Hoover Institution was casting doubt on masks, its ‘experts’ were undermining the case for investing in public education. Special guest Bruce Baker joins...

    • TweetOur long-awaited book, A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, is finally (almost) out. To celebrate its publication, and the 100th episode of Have You Heard, we asked an expert—a...

      Chicago Boyz

  • “We should act incrementally as prudent risk minimizers and pursue any effective no-regrets options. We do not have to wait for the formulation and acceptance of grand strategies...

  • Non-Random Pic

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  • Chicagoboyz enjoy a midnight snack.

    • It’s been a while since I posted a link collection, so here are quite a few… The highest-resolution snowflake photos ever captured.   The real kind of snowflakes, not the metaphorical...

      Centinel2012

  • Time to take the gloves off.  Play time is over, it’s time for the adults to step in Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Jim ONeill —— Bio and Archives—November 30...

  • Their hatred of Trump is also deep and based on fictional posits, they are those who are best cast today as the conspirators in the redux of the mid-60s movie entitled “Seven Days in...

    • Posted originally on The Conservative tree house 2.0 on November 30, 2020 by Sundance “Glitches” seems like an easy catch-phrase to explain encountered problems in the...

  • On today's BradCast we try to catch you up with at least five days of important news from over the long holiday weekend. That's damned near impossible in the Trump Era, unfortunately...

  • Mike Peterson at The Daily Cartoonist has a list of cartoonists’ Patreon and other support sites. As newspapers and media companies continue to shed staff positions, direct support...

    • Hey, it's NICOLE SANDLER in for Brad and Desi today (they'll be back after the holiday weekend.) On today's BradCast, we're talking turkey. Okay, not really, but it is the day before...

      bluebird of bitterness

  • The tree of life my soul hath seen, Laden with fruit and always green; The trees of nature fruitless be Compared with Christ the apple tree. His beauty doth all things excel; By faith...

  • Cars were set alight and the Central Bank of France building was hit with a fire missile in Paris Saturday as tens of thousands of protesters took to city streets throughout France to...

  • Thousands of years ago, ancient Aztecs may have held the key to the next biotech breakthrough. During ceremonial rituals, they used a special compound they called “the flesh...

    • The Chinese Coronavirus (COVID-19) hit American shores — officially, anyway, there is significant evidence that it arrived earlier — in late January 2020. The American...

  • By Emily Reynolds. While empathy is often depicted as an uncomplicated moral good, the results suggest a more complex situation.

  • By Emma Young. Dehuminisation can lead to inhumane treatment and impair rehabilitation, so it's important to understand what leads to such views.

    • By Emma Young. "Vicarious" joy has a similar neural signature to joy we experience ourselves — but there are also important differences

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • On a brisk autumn flight from San Diego to Portland, Oregon, cookbook author and chef Jenn Louis was suffering from a particularly bad cold. Achy and exhausted, she came home to find...

  • Every Saturday morning, around 8:30 a.m., Munaivar Muneeswaran, 37, head of the department of history at Saraswathy Narayanan College in Madurai in southern India, gathered his...

    • Inside this museum, visitors are afforded the opportunity to observe many items and common objects that hail from 1945-1989. Many were commonplace in Bulgarian households. The...

      Accidental Deliberations

  • Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Daniela Gabor writes that there's no reason to treat the spending needed to allow people to survive a pandemic-induced recession as an...

  • This and that for your Sunday reading.- In the absence of leaders at any level of government willing to act on the scale needed to stop the coronavirus pandemic in much of Canada, Amir...

    • Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Michael Smithson examines data from 45 countries confirming that any attempt to play off COVID-19 suppression against economic activity...

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