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Mar.21.2012
Although I feel that a police officer has, perhaps, the most thankless job on the planet, I must say that teachers too seem to be taken very much for granted. The potential "strike" in our area recently had me thinking about this. We constantly hear about "cutbacks" in...
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Mar.20.2012
Measurement devices measure our expectations of what we are hoping to find.
They have to: as sense-extensions, they can only find the stimuli that we already know how to digest.
Nothing new here: Socrates talked about this with a slave boy named Meno way, way back.
Point is:...
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Mar.19.2012
Culture - what culture? When you don't know the references, do you know the text? Or are you just conned?
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How serious is our society’s literacy problem? Unless we commit to being serious readers of a shared canon, we might as well stop reading...
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Mar.13.2012
Has that last light been turned off? Although spending a relatively short time on the world stage - 244 years - the Encyclopaedia Britannica was an, if not the, epitome of knowledge and civilization. No decent library was without a set, and every learned home had the alphabetical row along a wall....
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Jan.31.2012
Google has released results showing that one hour of video is uploaded every second, to which I answer, seriously? Amazing! Cool!
I'm a YouTube fan. Sure, the fighting cats and playing cats, and the goats and dogs are all cute, and the cat playing the piano and Simon's Cat attracts me once in...
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Jan.28.2012
Where does our knowledge come from? Where does it start? How long will we go on learning?
Knowledge is being absorbed by our minds from the instant we hear sounds. When our eyes first open, we are taking pictures of everything we see. We are being...
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Jan.20.2012
I imagine much of my posts reflect a person who's been around a few decades. I've worked and pursued one career, and then another, and another. Then I paused to ask the classic question, "Is that all there is?"
The question forces a search for new balance. I've come to terms with many things. I've...
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Dec.13.2011
Eventually, we all realize we’re never going to be able to come close to understanding all there is to know in the world. But then, no amount of understanding can ever replace happiness, or the true understanding of a few things.
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Dec.09.2011
I come from farmer stock (some generations back) and I once worked on a farm and I am writing a trilogy about onion farmers. It is fair to say I have an interest in farmers. Part of my trilogy deals with all the things farmers have to be beyond their ability to grow onions. They have to know the...
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Nov.23.2011
Many a long year ago I worked in a library for two years. There was not a computer in the building (and it was a university library). Every book had a card and pocket inside the back cover which the patron signed (yes - in hand) to gain access of the book. Too quaint for words. I did, for...
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