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Gödel’s Loophole in U.S. Constitution(newyorker.com)
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The iPad, too. I spend hours with it every day—mostly reading and watching videos—and I rarely have to think about it as a device. It just lets me get absorbed in whatever I’m looking at. I don’t use it much myself, as I’m not an artist, bu
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Hey! Those video clips sound great. I especially liked the first one. It’s really encouraging to see that people can make music together remotely.
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> Has anyone ever stopped to consider the ethical question of applying the latest unproven fads of educational theory to unwitting students? Since this Catherine Project seems to be trying to offer a traditional education practice to stu
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And in the case of the Japanese COVID figures, it’s not some single government agency, subject to pressure from above, that announces the infection totals. Hospitals and clinics throughout the country report infections they’ve identified to
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The Numbers Game(en.wikipedia.org)
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Just to note that there's another long-established text editor, for Macs only, with a very similar name: Jedit. http://www.artman21.com/en/jeditOmega/ While this Jedit has features for programmers, I think it
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Facebook Sent Me Down a Centrist Rabbit Hole(theatlantic.com)
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After supervising graduate students for about ten years (in a field in the social sciences), I’ve started giving new M.A. students a similar bit of advice: attend research conferences, both to hear the presentations and to meet other resear
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> predicting that most education will be online after everyone spent a year and a half discovering how terrible both Zoom school and Zoom university are is a bold (and likely wrong) prediction. You’re probably right about Zoom school—it
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One real person with that name is the current editor of a Japanese science magazine [1] that has been published since 1931. I did some work for him about ten years ago. He is a very nice man. [1] https://www.iwanami.co.jp/ad
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Samuel Johnson, among others in 18th-century Britain, used it: https://archive.org/details/lettersjohnson01hilluoft/page/n2...
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Abstract: "Studies conducted between the 1950s and 1970s found the principles embodied in the First Amendment constituted a 'clear norm' endorsed by large majorities of community leaders and virtually all legal practitioners
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The Realignment of Political Tolerance in the U.S. [pdf](dornsifelive.usc.edu)
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I agree that it’s a brilliant book, but it’s also a very strange one. Those reviews suggest to me that some of the earliest readers did in fact appreciate both aspects of it.
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The Internet Archive held their 25th anniversary celebration on October 21. This 90-video is the stream of the event. I found it all worthwhile, but perhaps the best part is Brewster Kahle’s talk near the beginning [1]. The Internet Archive
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Internet Archive Turns 25 [video](youtube.com)
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A few months ago, I started listening to new-music programs on BBC Music Introducing [1], particularly the London program [2]. As you might guess from how I spell “programs,” I’m not British and have never lived in the U.K. But I’m an older
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You’re right. Something I meant to say but didn’t in my comment above is that Japanese schools are more diverse than they seem to many people, including Japanese. In the U.S., people tend to be keenly aware of school differences, because pu
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My two daughters went through Japanese public schools in Tokyo and Yokohama, and I now teach and do research about education-related topics at a university in Tokyo. My research focus is not student behavior, but I sometimes visit schools a
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The FTC’s FAQ about this notice makes interesting reading. They discuss a lot of edge cases: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...
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And Isaac Newton: “English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton produced works exploring chronology, and biblical interpretation (especially of the Apocalypse), and alchemy. Some of this could be considered occult. Also, Newton describe
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My two daughters went through elementary schools in Tokyo and Yokohama, and they walked to school in groups—called tōkōhan—that were arranged by the schools. In Tokyo, their tōkōhan met each morning in front of our apartment complex; in Yok
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China proposes prohibiting private investment in news service sector(bloombergquint.com)
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Also the people formerly of Fukushima. Many, perhaps most, of those who had to leave will never return.
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I have over a dozen Google apps installed on my iPhone and iPad, but there are only three I use enough to have an opinion about: Gmail, Maps, and YouTube Music. Gmail and Maps work well enough for me, and I have no complaints. I much prefer
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How the Nobel Prizes skew science(vox.com)
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Histories of California contain many descriptions of extensive oil seepage both on shore and off. Here’s an example from further up the coast, from a book published in 1883: “The flowing springs of petroleum early attracted the attention of
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Thanks! I was having the same problem, on both iPhone and iPad Safari. Hiding the CNYoungerCousin... article fixed the problem immediately.
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Some books about and by Alexander von Humboldt at the Internet Archive: Lives of the Brothers Humboldt, Alexander and William (1852) https://archive.org/details/livesofbrothersh01klen The Travels and Researches of A

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