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Tag Archives: Debates
Education: Perhaps the answer is to rethink what we mean by education
Recent events have spawned what has been for me some vitriolic but otherwise meaningless debates about education in the United States. The debates have been vitriolic because the sides involved have dug into positions that are primarily rhetorical in nature and have been meaningless because most of the rhetoric has little to do with how […] Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ideas
Tagged Debates, Definitions, Education Models, fundamentals, questions
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What’s my hangup?
So, I’ve been having this running battle for a while now about exercise. There are a not small number of people who have concluded, and not without justification, that I am opposed to exercise. While this is not really true, … Continue reading
Science and Technology: Global population growth will not be halted by birth control
The whole government mandated birth control debacle in the United States has brought birth control back to the center stage in the global debate. Unfortunately for the debate, neither side argues from a position of holistic facts, but I think the pro-birth control group gets it more wrong than the other. For example, this Treehugger […] Continue reading
Posted in Science and Technology
Tagged aging, birth control, Debates, demographics, facts, growth, knowledge, Population, technology
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More on the cost of reality
I love that the debate over stripping public unions of the collective bargaining rights has degenerated into an argument, essentially, about protecting union negotiated entitlements. In embracing this debate, both sides have distracted themselves from reality again–that is, the thing … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Government, Nations, News, Politics, Society, Spending, United States, World Watch
Tagged Budgets, crises, Debates, deficits, disasters, failures, Insolvency, missing the point, money, Ohio, partisan, Politics, unions, Wisconsin
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