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• Rumblings Of Revolution

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 129
  Ask someone how they feel about their country today, or if they feel betrayed, or whether they believe America will ever be the same again. Then stand back and listen.Wall StreetThe Establishment’s Tin Ear“What’s changed,” one Newsroom Magazine contributor recently suggested, “is that prior to last year we ...
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• The Bible in the City of New Orleans

  
  Alternation — Authority: 110
  The annual conference of the Society of Biblical Literature is winding down.  I have had a great time, but I am ready to move on.  In the wee hours of the morning I will fly back to Kansas City and spend some time with my grandchildren before driving down to Arkansas to spend the Thanksgiving Holiday with Sonja and ...
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• Tweet if you support us! Online flashmob – 1pm, Thursday 26th November

  
  Don't Get Fooled Again — Authority: 121
  Unable to join the #Trafigura flashmob in person this Thursday? Still want to help? Well now you can… From 1pm onwards on Thursday 26th November, please show your support for the campaign by Tweeting the following, and encouraging others to do the same: Beat the gag! “toxic waste in the Ivory Coast leading ...
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• Blogs, Reflection and Learner-Centred Design

  
  TechTicker — Authority: 124
  In reading a recent post on the Tomorrow’s Professor blog regarding “ Learning Through Structured Reflection ,” I’ve been once again reminded of my passionate belief in the importance of leaving space and opportunity for contemplation and critical thinking in the learning process. Likewise the article has ...
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• The Real Reasons You Act the Way You Do

  
  Randy's Blog — Authority: 126
  Last post we talked about perspective and I asked you to evaluate yours.  Did you really do it? Are you one of the people who constantly make big issues out of little things?  Are your relationships roller coaster rides of breathtaking highs and desperate lows?  Have you ever given thought to the real reason for ...
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• Essential Education: Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Creativity

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 415
  
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• Missing the point | evolution

  
  nikao — Authority: 115
  Once again, Christians are missing the mark in a big way . It would appear that a Christian group of some kind thinks it’s a good idea to re-write Darwin’s Origin of Species with an opener that slams evolution. I hope all of the churches around the country are ready for the flood of people that is about to ...
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• Born to Run Revisited

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 130
  In a recent blog post , I wrote about my response to an article on the evolution of distance running. A reader of my blog, Molly Suber Thorpe, posted a comment in which, among other things, she recommended the book Born to Run . I promptly purchased it ( on my Kindle ) and found it quite interesting. Although the ...
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• Born to Run Revisited

  
  Zoe Weil — Authority: 417
  In a recent blog post , I wrote about my response to an article on the evolution of distance running. A reader of my blog, Molly Suber Thorpe, posted a comment in which, among other things, she recommended the book Born to Run . I promptly purchased it ( on my Kindle ) and found it quite interesting. Although the ...
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• Comedian Dara O’Briain presents critical thinking

  
  Simon Dingle — Authority: 107
  Stand-up comedy is often funniest when there is an element of truth to what is being said. In this excellent piece of satire comedian Dara O’Briain tackles homeopaths, nutritionists and other ‘bullshit peddlers’ as he calls them. Thanks to @murraybiscuit for linking me to it.
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• Toxic Kool-Aid for a Thirsty Country

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  The cover of the Insight section of today’s San Francisco Chronicle trumpet’s the question: Who will create the jobs of the future? This was the common theme for the first five opinion pieces. I have no idea how the Chronicle decided to order them, so it is hard to tell whether or not the placement ...
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• “How Political Correctness Kills” By Kevin Martin

  
  http://afrospear.wordpress.com/ — Authority: 415
  Commentary submission by Project 21 Nidal Malik Hasan faces murder charges in the shooting deaths of 12 soldiers and one civilian at Fort Hood. His co-conspirator, “political correctness” , remains at large. While political correctness runs amok, no one is safe. In Hasan’s case, political correctness ...
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• 2012 Doomsday Fast Approaches!

  
  Heaving Dead Cats — Authority: 121
  This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Logic and Critical Thinking OMG, yo! Hide the good silver! Run for your lives! The Mayans say the world will end December 21, 2012 and that’s only 2 years and a month away! Whatever will we do?! Of course the Mayans themselves didn’t survive till 2012, so maybe they ...
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• Is somebody watching Tim Minchin’s cholesterol?

  
  The Meming of Life — Authority: 484
  I don’t fall in love as often as I used to. When I was young, I ran into something new to love every time I turned around. Like Kurt Vonnegut. Like fresh guacamole. Like sex with others, like Richard Dawkins. Like deeelicious sentential ambiguity. I find myself falling in love a lot less often at middle age. I ...
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• the debate I wanna see (Will Phillips v. Carrie Prejean)

  
  Tony's curricublog — Authority: 104
  On CNN Monday morning (Nov. 16, 2009), ten-year-old Will Phillips his reason for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance in his fifth-grade class:I’ve grown up with a lot of people and I’m good friends with a lot of people who are gay and I think they should have the rights all people should, and [...]
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• The Eleven Worst Ambiguous Movie Endings

  
  scanners — Authority: 553
  Everybody hates it when they dont explain everything that happened by the time the movie is over. What we need at the end is not open-endedness but clarity, loose-end tying-up, closure. We need more movies like "Psycho" (unfortunately Simon Oakland has passed, but Larry King is still with us) and "Mulholland Dr." -- ...
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• Sarah Palin daring to Go Rogue: A Case Study in the Art of Style over Substance

  
  http://afrospear.wordpress.com/ — Authority: 415
  As I look down upon American society…literally and figuratively… from my perch up here in Canada, I must admit that it’s politics and political figures fascinates me to some extent. The higher up the political ladder one goes, its becomes more and more like following a t.v. reality show, where as we know, ...
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• Just damned good teaching

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 545
  Kolowich, S. (2009) Professors of the Year I nside Higher Education , November 19 This article has nothing to do with e-learning, but it does discuss effective teaching practice, especially in chemistry. This approach could be used in hybrid or even fully online learning.
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• What’s Your Purpose?

  
  A Teacher's Education — Authority: 125
  Kizz put up a post today in which she ruminates on the idea of positing a purpose .  This resonated with me because, in my line of work, the concept of purpose  and the concise and eloquent expression of it are often at the heart of much of what  I do. When I talk to my students about purpose, I give a pretty ...
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• A Thought Experiment on Evolution vs. Creationism

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 463
  Which is true: creationism, or evolution? Notice the above question assumes the two concepts to be mutually exclusive. Either creationism must be true, or evolution; both can’t be true. But what if this is a false dichotomy ? What if there is a way for both to be true? Is it possible that they only appear to be ...
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