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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Honoring Our Educators
“Part of compensation is public esteem. When governors mock teachers as lazy, avaricious incompetents, they demean the profession and make it harder to attract the best and brightest. We should be elevating teachers, not throwing darts at them.” — Nicholas … Continue reading
Conscientious Consumerism (or Why I’m boycotting Target, but still eating Chick-Fil-A)
The CEO of Whole Foods is a libertarian who doesn’t support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Target gave $150,000 to a conservative Minnesota Political Action Committee that endorsed an anti-gay candidate for governor. S. Truett Cathy, the founder … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Sexuality, The Economy
Tagged Boycott, Conscientious Consumerism, LGBT, Money, Target
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Religion is Here to Stay (or Physicists Should Only Model Particle Behavior)
In the 1950s and ’60s, social scientists predicted that organized religion would give way to secularism. Among the leading proponents of that theory was Peter Berger, well-known sociologist of religion, who in 1968 predicted that “people will become so bored … Continue reading
Why Republicans Are Winning & We're All Losing
I’ve had a life-long love of politics. I love debating, I love learning about law and policy and how it is made, how it is shaped. I love talking about law and policy with people who disagree with me, and … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics
Tagged Chutzpah, Conservatism, Democrats, Family, language, Liberalism, morality, Policy, Politics, Prof. George Lakoff, Republicans
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Worst Hundredth Birthday Present Ever!
100 years ago at 29 Washington Place, New York, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory went up in flames and down in history as the largest man-made disaster in New York until 9/11. The fire forced New York to see its most … Continue reading
Japan's Food Future
Much is currently being written about the risk of radioactive contamination in the food and water supplies in Japan. What began as a paranoid prediction last week has come true, with officials discovering low levels of radioactive Iodine, I-131, in … Continue reading
Posted in Food
Tagged BP, Caesium, exports, food shortages, Fukushima, G-7, Gas shortages, Iodine, Japanese earthquake, Mozambique, nuclear disaster, radiation, radioactive contamination, rising Yen, small farmers, Supply and demand, tsunami
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Felipe on the Bottom Rung
I try not to get personal in these blog posts, but sometimes… I am a teaching artist who is currently in the first of a four-year research project to determine the efficacy of arts education in improving fluency in English … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics
Tagged austerity, Brooklyn, homelessness, New York City, poverty, public schools
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Because We Like Our Hamburgers Raw
Yesterday, the UN Security Council voted unanimously, apart from Russian, Chinese, German, Indian and Brazilian abstentions, to authorize the imposition of a no-fly zone and military action to protect Libyan civilians. Hours later, Libyan officials declared a cease-fire which they promptly … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, War
Tagged Bahrain, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, no-fly zone, Saudi Arabia, UN Security Council, Yemen
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The MESSENGER to Mercury
I spend several hours a week babysitting for an almost-three-year-old boy who knows more about the solar system than you do unless you’re an astronomer yourself. No joke: several months ago he caught me off guard by rattling off the … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Technology
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