Let’s be honest, our inner genius doesn’t always show. Men. Women. It’s time to reveal, once and for all… Who’s smarter than who?Let’s be honest, our inner genius doesn’t always show. Men. Women. It’s time to... more
Let’s be honest, our inner genius doesn’t always show. Ladies, it’s time to reveal, once and for all… Who’s smarter than who?Let’s be honest, our inner genius doesn’t always show. Ladies, it’s time to... more
Let’s be honest, our inner genius doesn’t always show. Guys, it’s time to reveal, once and for all… Who’s smarter than who?Let’s be honest, our inner genius doesn’t always show. Guys, it’s time to... more
For the record, the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun was discarded in the 17th century.
"Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The school system as a whole qualifies. Go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts... " - Frank Zappa
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"Our whole culture is organized around wealthy people who keep poor people poor, uneducated, and powerless.Meanwhile...
1 in 5 US citizens think the Sun revolves around the Earth !!!... more
These apps are educational, easy to understand and practical for everyday situations like work projects or trivia with your friends on Wednesday night. Browse through the categories and see what interests you.These apps are educational, easy to understand and practical for everyday situations... more
LIVE FROM PORTLAND HEMPSTALK IN PORTLAND, OREGON! -- Live talk radio from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Hosted by "Radical" Russ Belville, NORML SHOW LIVE features a recap of the week's top stories in medical marijuana, consumer cannabis, and industrial hemp; interviews with the top cannabis activists, politicians, scientists, doctors, actors, musicians, and comedians; and your calls live at 347-994-1810.LIVE FROM PORTLAND HEMPSTALK IN PORTLAND, OREGON! -- Live talk radio from the National... more
Palestra: Agenda Brasil Conhecimento
Instituição: Sociedade Brasileira de Gestão do Conhecimento
Palestrante: Heitor José Pereira
Data: 07/04/2009Palestra: Agenda Brasil Conhecimento
Instituição: Sociedade Brasileira de Gestão... more
What will become of the library of tomorrow? Only time will tell for sure, but trends indicate such shifts as more aggressive marketing, personalization of the library experience, and libraries’ approach to the needs of their users.What will become of the library of tomorrow? Only time will tell for sure, but trends... more
These inspiring figures have accomplished a great deal with minimal or no formal education, becoming U.S. Presidents, well-known journalists, writers and scientists. Read on the list of 10 incredibly inspiring self-taught scholars.These inspiring figures have accomplished a great deal with minimal or no formal... more
Whether you’re learning from other library professionals, staying on top of news, or checking out resources, you can find what you need on Twitter. Read on, and you’ll find 100 of the best Twitter feeds for future librarians.Whether you’re learning from other library professionals, staying on top of news, or... more
Twitter allows you to be constantly tuned into your academic or professional field. Whether you want to listen in and research, or share your knowledge as an authority, there’s something for you on Twitter.Twitter allows you to be constantly tuned into your academic or professional field.... more
From Mark Twain to Confucius, an educated individual should posses some knowledge of certain philosophers, artists and thinkers. Here are 25 great thinkers every college student should read, even if professors don’t assign them.From Mark Twain to Confucius, an educated individual should posses some knowledge of... more
I appreciate the ability to spread information and express my opinions on Current, but this is not the end. There is a big world out here with many other ways we need to use to reach people. Especially people in America who are bombarded with slick PR campaigns and political mouthpieces paid to deceive them. Our newspapers were once the tool people used to gather information and discuss it. With the advent of the Internet however, newspapers have been suffering, but do people in the majority actually read news on the Internet?
While I enjoy blogging and think it is an important part of the activism we need to see to get out truth about climate change and other issues, I also write letters to the editor of my local paper. Just today I had a letter regarding climate change printed in my local paper, and my next one will be on GMOS. That one small community paper reaches over sixty thousand people a week. Now while the chance of 60,000 people reading it today is not guaranteed, there may well be those who will read it who did not know that scientists predict that we cannot go over a two degree rise in global temperature and are already at one degree. They may not know that glaciers are melting at a rate three times faster than predicted by scientists. They may not know that islands such as the Carteret Islands, the Maldives, Vanuatu, Bangladesh, etc. are already feeling the effects of sea level rise. They may not know that the Northeast where I live is predicted to also be feeling the effects of sea level rise within the next 25 years. They may not know that water scarcity is having an effect on 40% of our planet which is also effecting agriculture. But they do today if the read my letter, because I wrote all that and a bit more about priorities and demanding government as well take responsibility for it.
Some simply choose to be defeatist and state that this kind of activism doesn't matter (like standing up against Monsanto and GMOS that are also destroying our environment) rather than doing anything. I do not believe in that course regardless of how hopeless it may look. There is strength in numbers and knowledge is indeed power. We as a species have proved it before and we can do it again.
The saying, the pen is mightier than the sword is true. And in all honesty, I cannot look at the young face of my son and do anything less. So I am asking, when was the last time you wrote a letter to the editor of your newspaper about climate change? Do you think depending on where you live that it would make a difference if you did?I appreciate the ability to spread information and express my opinions on Current, but... more
On July 10, 2009 we lost another great Civil Rights leader and historian, Kenneth Stampp. The author of "The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South," a book - one of it's kind in 1956 because it was written by a white academic - who successfully challenged the paternalistic views of slavery that had prevailed for the previous 100 years. Such stereotypes as the smiling-happy mammy, faithful Uncle Tom, and the benevolent plantation masters, just to name a few.
He changed the way slaves were viewed and discussed in books. He showed that slavery was in fact the "most profound and vexatious social problem" in America. This book coupled with the social climate of America in the late 1950s, forced into America's classroom the removal of the happy-go-luck lies taught of the docile slaves and loving masters. It challenged fantasies of rosy painted and lily-faced whites being tended to by their loving and caring black help. Something African-Americans historians, like W.E.B. DuBois and Eric Foner, had challenged countless times before: the effects of slavery and racism cannot be ignored and how "his-story," if not challenged, can rewrite and destroy the accurate accounts of history....On July 10, 2009 we lost another great Civil Rights leader and historian, Kenneth... more
Sharing what you know, and getting paid for it, can be a great way to make a little extra money both during and after college. Here are a few sites you can try out to let you share what you know for profit or just for the pleasure of educating others.Sharing what you know, and getting paid for it, can be a great way to make a little... more
"Scientific American reports that although cursing is notoriously decried in the public debate, scientists have discovered that swearing may serve an important function in relieving pain. 'Swearing is such a common response to pain that there has to be an underlying reason why we do it,' says Richard Stephens of Keele University in England. A study measured how long college students could keep their hands immersed in cold water. During the chilly exercise, they could repeat an expletive of their choice or chant a neutral word. When swearing, the 67 student volunteers reported less pain and on average endured about 40 seconds longer. How swearing achieves its physical effects is unclear, but the researchers speculate that brain circuitry linked to emotion is involved. Earlier studies have shown that unlike normal language, which relies on the outer few millimeters in the left hemisphere of the brain, expletives hinge on evolutionarily ancient structures buried deep inside the right half like the amygdala, an almond-shaped group of neurons that can trigger a fight-or-flight response in which our heart rate climbs and we become less sensitive to pain.""Scientific American reports that although cursing is notoriously decried in the... more
"Joe Moran writes in the BBC News Magazine that Sat-Nav clearly suits an era in which 'map-reading may be going the way of obsolete skills like calligraphy and roof-thatching.' Sat-Nav 'speaks to our contemporary anxieties and preoccupations about the road,' writes Moran. 'More roads and better cars mean we can travel further, and so the risk of getting lost is all the greater.' But do real men use sat-nav? Moran says that men seem to recoil from being given digital instructions by a woman, and read the satnav woman's pregnant pauses, or her curt phrases like 'make a legal U-turn' and 'recalculating the route', as stubborn or bossy. Still we don't quite trust the electronic voice to get us where we want to go. 'Since before even the arrival of the car, people have worried that maps sever us from real places, render the world untouchable, reduce it to a bare outline of Cartesian lines and intersections,' writes Moran. 'Sat-nav feeds into this long-held fear that the cold-blooded modern world is destroying local knowledge, that roads no longer lead to real places but around and through them.'""Joe Moran writes in the BBC News Magazine that Sat-Nav clearly suits an era in which... more
"Researchers long ago rejected the theory that vaccines cause autism, yet many parents don't believe them. Can scientists bridge the gap between evidence and doubt?
Pediatrician Paul Offit has made it his mission to set the record straight: vaccines don't cause autism. But he won't go on Larry King Live—where he could reach millions of viewers—or anyplace celebrity anti-vaccine crusaders like Jenny McCarthy appear. ''Every story has a hero, victim, and villain,'' he explains. ''McCarthy is the hero, her child is the victim—and that leaves one role for you.''
When she read that hecklers were issuing death threats to spokespeople who simply reported studies showing that vaccines were safe, anthropologist Sharon Kaufman dropped her life's work on aging to study the theory's grip on public discourse. To Kaufman, a researcher with a keen eye for detecting major cultural shifts, these unsettling events signaled a deeper trend. ''What happens when the facts of bioscience are relayed to the public and there is disbelief, lack of trust?'' Kaufman wondered. ''Where does that lead us?''
Despite overwhelming evidence that vaccines don't cause autism, one in four Americans still think they do. Not surprisingly, the first half of 2008 saw the largest US outbreak of measles—one of the first infectious diseases to reappear after vaccination rates drop—since 2000, when the native disease was declared eliminated. Mumps and whooping cough have also made a comeback. Last year in Minnesota, five children contracted Hib, the most common cause of meningitis in young children before the vaccine was developed in 1993. Three of the children, including a 7-month-old who died, hadn't received Hib vaccines because their parents either refused or delayed vaccination.
Now, more than ten years after unfounded doubts about vaccine safety first emerged, scientists and public health officials are still struggling to get the story out. Their task is made far more difficult by the explosion of misinformation on the Internet, talk shows, and high-profile media outlets, by journalists' tendency to cover the issue as a "debate," and, as Kaufman argues, by an erosion of trust in experts."
Is there a lack of Scientific Knowledge in America? Why?"Researchers long ago rejected the theory that vaccines cause autism, yet many parents... more
Charles Darwin's Theory Evolution by Natural Selection vs. Adam & Eve, Original Sin, and The Fall.Charles Darwin's Theory Evolution by Natural Selection vs. Adam & Eve, Original Sin,... more
