The world offers many stellar examples to countries and / or nations that want to plan their development. Chief among them are the Scandinavian countries. We'll take a look at Finland. Read more »
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End of history: Hegel, Kojeve, Marx and Fukuyama
A very recent debate hosted by TVO reminded me of Fukuyama’s famous essay. The plan is to summarize it and eventually discuss it. Read more »
Joseph Campbell is smiling
To offer a synthetic view of world myths might be an even more daunting task than to do the same with the world religions. Yet our hero has managed to do just that. We take a quick look at his legacy. Read more »
Cuchet Cave and Radon Gas
There is a relatively recently discovered cave in France that has some astounding prehistoric paintings on its walls, most likely the oldest in the world. It also has, as most caves, a high concentration of the toxic Radon gas. Read more »
Steve Joordens on Critical Thinking
Coming straight from the Psychology Department of U of T (Scarborough Campus), this lecture addresses primarily first year students and talks about the lecturer's struggle to get his students to think. Read more »
girl arrested for doodling and the dicky school
We hear more and more about idiotic teachers who join in with idiotic law enforcement to replace student beatings with "lawful arrests". Recently, NYPD arrested and detained a 12 y o girl for doodling.
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Extremophiles–Gaia’s seeds
The wide discovery and acceptance of the existence of extremophiles of the last decade is opening the gate for a wider acceptance of the idea that life can travel through cosmos and can be found on other planets, in conditions we previously thought inhospitable and not conducive to life. Read more »
Entrepreneurial journalism saving education
I recently watched TED ny lecture where Jeff Jarvis, a Professor of Entrepreneurial Journalism talks about how the best lectures (MIT open courseware and others) are already online, so educators need to become curators and complementary to online content and also to involve their audience to a much greater degree. Read more »
Donald E Cameron and the German Collective Guilt
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Most people who travel extensively through Europe will inevitably come to the conclusion that most German people they meet seem to still feel, five decades post-Holocaust, a sense of collective guilt for their parents’ and grandparents’ crimes. I always wondered where is that coming from. Read more »
Rudyard Kipling, jingoism and Victorian ideals
If by Rudyard Kipling was one of my favourite poems in my childhood. Since then, my views have changed. It seems that the story behind the poem is not all that compelling. Read more »
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