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• Warren Meyer’s new climate video: Catastrophe Denied

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 124
  Lifted blatantly from his Coyote Blog , here is the video from a lecture on climate change that Warren Meyer gave on November 10: Catastrophe Denied: A Critique of Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming Theory from Warren Meyer on Vimeo . * * * Social Bookmarking
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• Essential Education: Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 411
  
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• Idiocy run amok

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 132
  The Boston Globe reports that a Methuen, Mass., woman named Mary Jo Coady believes Jesus appeared on her dirty old Wal-Mart iron. Here’s the image: Here’s why this is idiotic: No one knows what Jesus looked like. The person in this image looks like she either has the mumps or is gathering acorns for the ...
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• Differentiating Deliciously

  
  Education On The Plate — Authority: 408
  Image via Wikipedia No, I’m not talking about the social bookmarking site . I’m talking about education and food. That’s what this blog is supposed to be about and in a Twitter response to my last post, @ToughLoveforX remarked that high schools should have teaching kitchens. I disagree. All schools ...
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• Why ’21st century skills’ are important educational goals

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 520
  Downes, S. (2009) An operating system for the mind , Stephen’s Blog, September 19 In case you missed it when it first came out (I did – thanks Burkhard Lehmann, for pointing me to it): a typical Downes rant: brilliant, well-argued, passionate, and this time right. Move over, Rick Mercer. (Must be the Atlantic ...
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• Next time you argue with a creationist or evangelist

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 132
  Have the appendix from forthcoming book 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein handy. Presented on the Edge Foundation’s web site along with an excerpt of the novel’s first chapter, the appendix identifies the many flaws in 36 arguments that a supernatural being ...
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• Is the political this personal?

  
  Feminist Philosophers — Authority: 536
  Do you grimace when Sarah Palin’s name comes up in discussions?  Do you think that might  have to do with her evident disregard for facts?  With her encouraging a right-wing flight into fantasy?  Or could it be this personal, as Lisa Belkin in the NY Times maintains: If life is like high school, then ...
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• Meet PZ Myers

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 132
  New Scientist magazine profiles one of my favorite bloggers, PZ Myers, the University of Minnesota biology professor who writes Pharyngula . Key quote: In Pharyngula, Myers campaigns for evolutionary science, takes aim at creationists and proselytises for atheism while ridiculing religious beliefs with a sharp ...
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• The Dark Side of Customer Development and Lean Startups : Coconut …

  
  Technology News and Happenings - Techpresso.org — Authority: 150
  Coconut Headsets . Rob Mays Blog About Business, Finance, and Critical Thinking. About · The Dark Side of Customer Development and Lean Startups. Posted on November 28, 2009. Filed Under Business |. Version 1 of Backupify was built with ...
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• Quote of the Day

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 124
  From Thomas Sowell : No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems– of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. Yep. Social ...
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• Who is fact-checking the fact-checkers?

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 124
  As I have stated before, here and elsewhere on The Thinker : Without good critical thinking skills, the public’s opinions on important issues are formed for them by others — by the media, by popularity and peer pressure, and by authority figures such as professors, politicians, and “the experts”. ...
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• “The Rumors of My Death…”

  
  Beyond School — Authority: 92
  wrote Mark Twain, “have been greatly exaggerated.” True here as well, but only slightly. Autopsy The lines from Nick Cave’s song, “ Hallelujah ,” sum it up: My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb And my piano crouched in the corner of my room With all its teeth bared Change “piano” to “ ...
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• Divine Inspiration

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 129
  We may not be divinely inspired, but we aspire to be.Newsroom MagazineLevels Of ImperfectionQ You criticize politicians and ideologues for not having divine insight while openly speaking as if divinely inspired yourselves. Who anointed you to offer your own opinions as if fact?A No one.Your suggestion that our ...
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• Skeptic Stuff On Sale

  
  Law and Magic Blog — Authority: 121
  Skeptic is having a five-day, 25 percent off sale . Among the hot items on offer: VHS tapes, audio books of Michael Shermers bestsellers, back issues of Skeptic Magazine, and "Skeptic Swag" (T-shirts, stickers, et al.).
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• Grateful for 10-year-old’s inspiring critical thinking

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 132
  “Critical thinking is a mystery to me. What is it?” ~ Fred Oliveri, letter to the Morgan Hill Times editor about one of my columns I write frequently about critical thinking . I do so because fostering this skill is integral to the survival of core American principles. Without it, we’re swayed by outrageous ...
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• What Are You Thinking?

  
  Alternation — Authority: 110
  My friends in Topeka, Kansas, tell me they have seen a bumper sticker that quotes Psalm 109 in reference to president Obama.  It’s not funny. Maybe I’m sensitive because of where I live. I sometimes have coffee in Aggieville and wonder if the ghost of Timothy McVeigh is lurking in the shadows.  Aggieville was ...
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• Bits and Bytes

  
  http://afrospear.wordpress.com/ — Authority: 120
  1.  On this date 150 years ago, November 24th 1859, Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” . Back then it was seen as a challenge to the religious ideology and establishment of the day. I remember reading it when I was in university and I found it… well in a word: ...
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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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