oldephartte(in training): 24 October - iG Tab

Sunday, October 24, 2021

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Schooling the Workforce
Tweet#123 Schooling the Workforce Vocational education has been rebranded and retooled as career and technical education. But beneath CTE’s 21st century veneer lurks an age-old problem: tailoring students’ education too closely...
3 days ago

What Would You Do if You Were Running Greyhound?
Greyhound Lines is being acquired by the German company FlixMobility at a cost of $78MM…which seems small for a storied company with a well-known brand name which still provides important services in a lot of places…but I haven’t looked...
2 days ago
Everything Isn’t Awful
We took a break on Saturday – almost the first seriously cool autumn day – after the Daughter Unit finished prepping at her real estate broker’s office for a property showing on Sunday afternoon. She was home by afternoon, and that was...
6 days ago
Fixing Something
David Foster put up a post linking a site that tracks global ocean freight (and other boats). The ensuing comments were interesting and far ranging. I had started to type this as a comment but it got too long. The comments for the most part brought...
7 days ago

Property Rights are Human Rights — 2032.95
Armstrong Economics Blog/ECM Re-Posted Oct 23, 2021 by Martin Armstrong Here is a simple explanation of property rights for those who would like to abolish capitalism. Klaus Schwab says, “You will own nothing, and you will be happy.”...
19 hours ago
People Are Driving More to Sink California
Armstrong Economics Blog/Climate Re-Posted Oct 23, 2021 by Martin Armstrong Babylon Bee has reported that if we all drive more, we can eliminate California as a threat to our liberty. Climate change will send it beneath the sea!...
20 hours ago
Powell on the “Economic Exit from the Pandemic”
Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Oct 23, 2021 by Cassandra At last, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has begun speaking independently as he departs from the Biden agenda. Former President Trump and Powell notoriously...
20 hours ago

Sunday Spooky Toons
Please support the work of editorial cartoonists here. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...
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Anita Hill Still Changing the World, 30 Years Later: 'BradCast' 10/22/2021
It's NICOLE SANDLER, back to guest host the BradCast today for Brad & Desi. [Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.] Thirty years and 11 days ago, a woman named ANITA HILL swore an oath to tell the truth. She then testified before...
2 days ago
The Good with the Bad: 'BradCast' 10/21/2021
We covered a whole bunch of stories on today's BradCast. You'll have to tune in to find out what I have to say about most of them. Suffice to say there was a lot of both good news and bad. Often at the same time. [Audio link to full show is posted at end...
3 days ago

U.S. Smart Cities Consortiums Form Partnership; “key challenges include public perceptions around privacy”
The smart cities market is facing many challenges, according to Tyler Svitak, executive director of the Colorado Smart Cities Alliance. Among those challenges include “a barrier of capacity within government to execute,” he said...
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Sweden Suspends Moderna Shot Indefinitely After Vaxxed Patients Develop Crippling Heart Condition
New concerns are being raised about side effects from the Moderna vaccine against the coronavirus.
a day ago
The Cancel Culture Takes A Big "L"
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Face Stimuli In Psychology Are Often All White. That Needs To Change
By Emma L. Barratt. Reasons for using all-White stimuli do not stand up to scrutiny, argue authors of new paper.
2 days ago
Supportive Male Allies Can Make Male-Dominated Workplaces Less Hostile For Women
By Emily Reynolds. Having an ally was as powerful at reducing negative feelings as having a gender-balanced group of colleagues.
3 days ago
“Drinking To Cope” Doesn’t Work, Even When We Believe That It Does
By Emma Young. Although participants believed that drinking eased unpleasant feelings, depression-related symptoms actually increased after drinking.
4 days ago

Europeans Once Drank Distilled Human Skulls as Medicine
King Charles II was on his deathbed. The year was 1685, and the monarch had suffered a stroke. Doctors tried everything to save him, but the king was convinced that one particular remedy would work. Years before, Charles II had paid Oliver Cromwell’s...
2 days ago
Ogilvie-Wiener Mansion in Shreveport, Louisiana
William B. Ogilvie was an orphaned Shreveport native who served as a Confederate soldier before opening a wildly successful chain of grocery stores at war’s end. For a man that lived so many lives, it’s only fitting that his titular mansion...
2 days ago
How Gruesome Penny Dreadfuls Got Victorian Children Reading
A crash of thunder jolts a beautiful girl awake. She sits bolt upright in bed, her eyes transfixed on a storm outside. Lightning, and for an instant, a tall, gaunt figure is illuminated outside. “What—what was it? Real, or a delusion?”...
2 days ago

Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Adam Hunter reports on the increasingly public campaign by Saskatchewan doctors to have public health taken seriously in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. And Marshall Ross, Leona Morris and...
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Musical interlude
Nothing But Thieves - Futureproof
a day ago
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- The Canadian Medical Association calls for Scott Moe to finally reinstate public health rules to prevent Saskatchewan's already-catastrophic fourth wave of COVID-19 from completely collapsing our...
2 days ago