Critical Thinking

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• The Power of Silence

  
  Randy's Blog — Authority: 125
  I believe power comes from the silence.  When you see a great speaker, actor, poet, or musician, they get more power from the pauses then they do the sound.   And nothing does more for your critical thinking than spending some time in the silence. I spend quiet time every morning for a few hours.  No radio, no ...
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• Ailuromelanotriskaidekaphobia

  
  Law and Magic Blog — Authority: 118
    Happy Friday the Thirteenth. From I Can Has Cheezburger.com
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• Video Games To Add Interest To History?

  
  Platform Nation — Authority: 147
  History isn’t always a students favorite subject, and it doesn’t get any better the older we get either. I can tell you that I am not a fan of most kinds of history. I love the old stuff (Egyptian, Renaissance, Medieval, etc…) but the more recent it is, the more boring it gets (sorry history buffs). Now I will ...
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• When Doing The Right Thing Is Really The Wrong Thing

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  There is famine in Kenya and Ethiopia again. Sending food and emergency relief will make things worse in the long term.Sam Kiley, Times Of LondonLondonSpeaking About The UnthinkableOnly last month [ October, 2009 ] Newsroom Magazine contributors considered an article on the causes and implications of reoccurring ...
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• Poetry Analysis

  
  A Teacher's Education — Authority: 420
  Every once in a while (okay, more often than not), I’ll complete an assignment I give to my students. I do this for a couple of reasons.  One, I want the kids to know that what I’m giving them to do is entirely attainable.  I have two jobs (three if you count the yoga teacher gig), two kids, and half of the ...
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• Christian publisher angers Asian-Americans with gibberish cover and fake accents

  
  O Solo Mama — Authority: 461
  “Kung Fu” to sell Christian books was Zondervan’s brilliant publishing and marketing strategy. Gulp. The Michigan publisher’s 2007 book Deadly Viper Character Assassin: A Kung Fu Survival Guide for Life and Leadership was supposed to help Christians develop character and integrity but instead it’s ...
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• School kills creativity

  
  nikao — Authority: 118
  I watched this Ted talk yesterday and it resonated with me in such a big way. I barely made it through the educational system. It wasn’t geared for people like me. Creative. Mold breaking. Irreverent to the rules. Tactile. Visual. Experiential. I can’t say anything that isn’t said in this video, so watch it. ...
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• Grumpy is good for careful but not creative thinking

  
  http://thestatsblog.wordpress.com — Authority: 417
  According to new research published in Australasian Science , being grumpy isn’t all bad. Those in a cranky mood are less gullible, think more critically and tend to do better with decision-making. Joe Forgas, a psychology professor from The University of New South Wales, designed experiments that would induce ...
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• Religious Extremists Burn Holy Books

  
  Alternation — Authority: 115
  On Halloween the spiritual adviser of a neo-traditionalist sect in Georgia invited his followers to join him in a book burning ( the group’s website is here ).  In addition to burning recording of “Satan’s Music” (country, Jazz, Gospel, etc.) the group took special pride in burning the holy books of adherents ...
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• More homophobia from the GOP

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 131
  The Republican governor of Rhode Island, Don Carcieri, has vetoed a bill that would allow domestic partners to make funeral and burial plans for their partners, stating that the bill represents “incremental erosion of the principles surrounding traditional marriage.” Say what? The bill that Carcieri vetoed has ...
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• Peer review

  
  Travels with Shiloh — Authority: 434
  I was corresponding with an analyst going through the first module of the training program I reviewed earlier this year and the issue of peer review came up.  It remains difficult to manage since most people (either in class or at work) don’t want to make waves, and perhaps more importantly, don’t want to ...
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• Newsroom Magazine: Content Review

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  We made these change to make Newsroom Magazine more interesting as well as more useful  to a  wider range of readers with far broader interests.Newsroom MagazineNewsroom Magazine’s Breadth Of CoverageBeginning in January 2009, Newsroom Magazine significantly enlarge content breadth and depth.  The broadened ...
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• Catholics PWNED By Athiests

  
  Topic Agnostic — Authority: 112
  Put on by BBC World, the Question was “Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world?” The majority of the people at this debate decided that NO, it was not a force for good, and those people that were on the fence at the start (a poll was taken at the beginning [...]
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• Carnivalia — 11/04 – 11/10

  
  Sorting Out Science — Authority: 119
  The past weeks selection of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals...
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• Fallacies offer cold comfort for cognitive dissonance

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 131
  “Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.” ~ Mark Twain Twain’s wisdom came to mind as I read a recent article by new Dispatch columnist John Larson (another new club member; welcome!) about medical marijuana dispensaries. Near as I can tell, Larson ...
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• Political Correctness Is Inconsistent with Critical Thinking

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 420
  Here’s my reasoning on this… A.  Political correctness is the practice of avoiding the stating of certain truths which may offend certain people or groups. B.  Critical thinkers are committed first and foremost to pursuing the truth.  (See, e.g., here .) C.  Consequently, political correctness is ...
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• Pigeonhole THIS / Can you hear me now? 7

  
  The Meming of Life — Authority: 455
  When she says “I’m Sagittarian” I confess a pigeonhole starts to form And is immediately filled with pigeon When she says her name is Storm. Tim Minchin, “Storm” We all do it. We listen for a few clues, then assign a pigeonhole to the speaker. Maybe the beak’s still moving, who knows. It’s hard to ...
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• Numbers and Names

  
  Higher Ed/ — Authority: 125
  Words have meaning. This is true even if the words are not formally defined; people could talk to each other before dictionaries came around. The facility to speak and understand is so fluid in fully-functioning humans that we underestimate how difficult it is (see Moravecs Paradox). Undoubtedly there was strong ...
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• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 119
  The ladder. Charlene Li and Josh Bernofff have written a great book titled Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies . In their book they describe The Social Technographics ladder. “Each step on the ladder represents a group of consumers moreinvolved in the groundswell than the ...
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• Glenn Beck Loses Claim Against Web Site Mocking His Logic

  
  Sapere Aude! — Authority: 135
  Glenn Beck Loses Claim Against Web Site Creators Glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com . The parody sites founder, Isaac Eiland-Hall, created the site on thepremise that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990,because after all, Beck never denied taking part in a non-existentattack (a clear dig on ...
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