Thursday, April 22, 2021

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Have You Heard

  • TweetTwo decades ago, the Free State Project announced an audacious plan to make New Hampshire a utopia for libertarians. Now one of their central goals – privatizing education – appears within reach. Have You Heard heads to the Granite...

    7 hours ago
  • TweetThe pandemic gave the education technology industry the opportunity to FINALLY deliver on the bold promises it has been making for decades. What happened instead was just another failure to disrupt, says MIT’s Justin Reich. Transcript...

    14 days ago
  • TweetStudents from Boston tell Have You Heard what they’ve lost during this year of pandemic learning. Spoiler: what you’ll hear bears little resemblance to the discussion of “learning loss” that’s atop the agenda of policy makers...

    a month ago

Chicago Boyz

  • It amused me this week, to read of the list of professions which have proved historically to always provide a living of sorts to those who practice them; fine carpentry, construction carpentry, metalworking, innkeeping and I don’t know...

    2 days ago
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  • Things got kooky in my world last year, and they continue to be, well, interesting (I guess that is one word you could use – this is a family blog after all) this year. A few random notes for those who may be interested. For those who may not know...

    7 days ago

Centinel2012

  • Posted originally on GrrrGraphics.com APR 20, 2021 AT 7:16 PM Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all charges today. I am not an expert in legal matters, but being convicted of 2nd and 3rd degree murder as well as manslaughter...

    2 hours ago
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/AI Computers Re-Posted Apr 22, 2021 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: As a programmer and a client of Socrates, I can tell this is not some neural net or deep learning AI program. What you have created goes far beyond...

    2 hours ago
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/The Hunt for Taxes Re-Posted Apr 22, 2021 by Martin Armstrong The Democrats are twisting the facts as always by claiming DeSantis is raising taxes on consumers and cutting taxes for business. The bill he just signed...

    3 hours ago

The BRAD BLOG

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Research Digest

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • Created in 1827, this was the first European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa, and the first high-level institution since one located in Timbuktu collapsed. According to UNESCO, "The Old Fourah Bay College is perhaps the...

    an hour ago
  • Taiyoshi Hyakuban opened in the Taisho era over a century ago in the largest red-light district in western Japan, Tobita Shinchi. Like many brothels of that era, it assumed the form of a ryōtei, a luxurious Japanese-style restaurant...

    2 hours ago
  • Central Kathmandu, in an area north of the Bagmati River, once teemed with elaborate palace complexes built by kings and prime ministers. Today, with the exception of the famous and touristy Durbar Square, many of those palaces have been repurposed...

    3 hours ago

Accidental Deliberations

  • There's rightly been plenty of pushback against the Cons' sad excuse for a climate change plan. But it's worth highlighting that there's one way in which the principle behind it could accomplish more than the Libs' one-sided approach to carbon...

    4 hours ago
  • This and that for your Thursday reading.- Max Fawcett discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inability of simplistic right-wing populism to respond to any complex problem. And Laura Sciarpelletti reports on one of the consequences...

    4 hours ago
  • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Timothy Wilson reports on the emerging revelations of Enbridge's paying to harass environmental activists. And Jeremy Appel offers the background facts as to W. Brett Wilson's abandonment...

    a day ago

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