February 2012
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Robert Reich: Stop Starving Public Universities... →
robertreich:
Last week Rick Santorum called the President “a snob” for wanting everyone to get a college education (in fact, Obama never actually called for universal college education but only for a year or more of training after high school).
Santorum needn’t worry. America is already making it harder for…
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Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV... →
The most disruptive of these intruders were thousands of African porters. Forced into service by European colonial powers, they cut paths through the exact area that researchers have now identified as the birthplace of the AIDS epidemic. It was here, in a single moment of transmission from chimp to human, that a strain of virus called HIV-1 group M first appeared.
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“Dr White is a philosopher, and he sought to establish the idea that a person...”
– Animal rights: Whales are people, too | The Economist
“Israel is not an “apartheid” state. Within its internationally recognized...”
– J Street and J Street U Joint Statement on “Israel Apartheid Week” | J Street
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BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep →
In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks. His book At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past, published four years later, unearths more than 500 references to a segmented sleeping pattern - in diaries, court records, medical books and...
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“In the past decade, scientists have come to realize that our memories are not...”
– The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever | Wired Magazine | Wired.com
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The New Haven Experiment - NYTimes.com →
The breakthrough experiment in New Haven offers a glimpse of an education future that is less rancorous. It’s a tribute to the savvy of Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers and as shrewd a union leader as any I’ve seen. She realized that the unions were alienating their allies, and she is trying to change the narrative. New Haven may be home to Yale University,...
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How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - Magazine - The... →
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Morning Routines Are Creativity Killers →
kateoplis:
As several recent studies highlight, the way most of us spend our mornings is exactly counter to the conditions that neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists tell us promote flexible, open-minded thinking. Take that hurried wake-up, for example. In a study published in the journal Thinking and Reasoning last year, researchers Mareike Wieth and Rose Zacks reported that imaginative...