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• in Technorati Women
  Bringing Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration and Creativity to a School Near You
  Giving your child an advantage by teaching creativity skills at home
  by alicarnold / on Jun 13, 2011
• in Politics
  American Politician's Guide to Getting Work Done
  This is a quick reference for American politicians who have forgotten how to solve problems.
  by smartcomputing / on Apr 9, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  It's the Information, Stupid!
  The Condition Our Condition Is In
  by byfriday / on Mar 7, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “critical thinking”

 

• Thanks, CWRU, for forcing me to get the paper bag out again

  
  Respectful Insolence — Authority: 596
  Its rare that I have much in the way of reluctance to leap into writing about a topic. Any regular reader of this blog should know this to be true, given the topics I regularly take on and how often my writing draws flak my way from various proponents of quackery and pseudoscience, in particular the antivaccine crowd. ...
  12 hours ago

• Essays For A New Age: The End of Information Age?

  
  Sunday Posts — Authority: 99
  Industrial age has long ended, the pundits proclaimed, and we live in the information age. Indeed, the world in perspective is downtown LA, not some remote areas of Congo, where some farming tools, if they could be afforded, would be a good idea. However, once the proclamation is printed in books legitimised by top ...
  2 days ago

• What liberals think conservatives get right, and vice-versa

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 89
  On CivilPolitics.org , Jonathan Haidt passes along the results on an investigation conducted by journalist Tom Edsall. Edsall asked some liberals what they think conservatives are right about, and then asked some conservatives what liberals are right about. Here’s what the liberals praised conservatives on: They ...
  4 days ago

• Language matters: a criticism of global warming science defenders

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 89
  The choice of words being used in the global warming debate indicates something about the people choosing those words. For a long time now, many defenders of global warming science (e.g., Phil Plait ) have been using the phrase “global warming denier” to intentionally put certain people in the same intellectual ...
  4 days ago

• Why We Need Humane Education: Books & Mexican American Studies Banned in AZ

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 111
  Image courtesy of Rethinking Schools . In 2010 Arizona passed a law that "authorizes the state superintendent to stop any ethnic studies classes that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment toward a race or class of people, are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group ...
  5 days ago

• Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 109
  This chart has been going around the web lately: This post on the Washington Post’s “The Fact Checker” explains why this chart is bogus. By comparing the percentage increase of the debt rather than the absolute value of the debt, this chart gives the false impression that both Reagan and Bush increased ...
  1 week ago

• Ep 168: Reliability – the Foundation of Any Good Personality Test

  
  The Psych Files Podcast — Authority: 89
  Can you tell your personality from what flavor ice cream you like? There are lots and lots of so called Personality tests on the web. How do you know when you’ve come across a good one? For example, are the inner workings of your personality revealed in the playlists you have on your smartphone or mp3 device? ...
  1 week ago

• Are You Worthy?

  
  Randy's Blog — Authority: 408
  This is one of those days that I’m doing back-to-back interviews all day.  Media, streaming webcasts, and conference bridge lines.  And it’s fascinating in that every interview seems to end up in the same place… Worthiness issues. Thomas Aquinas said that everything received is done so in accord with the ...
  1 week ago

• Correlation-Causation Fallacy Watch: Packers Lost Sunday Because Casey’s Stupid Sister, Megan, Told Her to Put Sparkles on Her Nails

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 114
  _____ What strikes me about this clip (apart from its humor) is Casey’s fundamentally religious intuition: the reason the Green Bay Packers lost to the New York Giants on Sunday is because the ritual guaranteeing success was not followed perfectly—with total purity . Casey’s green jersey needed to be perfect ...
  1 week ago

• Log entry on the road to ruin (aka fundamental transformation)

  
  Rebane's Ruminations — Authority: 109
  George Rebane As usual I woke up to National Propaganda Radio and heard a mind-numbing hit piece on income inequality that for openers confused tax fraction, tax rate, paid taxes beyond any means of recovery. But they did manage not...
  1 week ago

• Another way your stupid brain keeps you fat

  
  Deceptology — Authority: 420
  The "side salad illusion" contributes to the "dieters paradox" Which meal below is lower in calories? A hamburger A hamburger with a side salad In a scientific study of a thousand people, people were asked to estimate the number of calories in a number of unhealthy meals, such as a bacon ...
  1 week ago

• Libertarians do not lack compassion

  
  Our Dinner Table — Authority: 110
  Don Boudreaux and Steve Horwitz rebut this part of Jeffrey Sachs’ critique against liberty : Libertarians hold that individual liberty should never be sacrificed in the pursuit of other values or causes.  Compassion, justice, civic responsibility, honesty, decency, humility, respect, and even survival of the ...
  1 week ago

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  The Strategic Learner — Authority: 410
  Filed under: Blogging, Choices, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Futuring, Learning, Reflection, Responsibility, Social Intelligence, Social Learning, Social Media, Social Networking, Strategy, Virtual Groups
  1 week ago

• Quote of the Day

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 109
  “Lord, enlighten thou our enemies,” prayed nineteenth-century British economist and moral philosopher John Stuart Mill in his “Essay on Coleridge.” “Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not ...
  1 week ago

• And They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our… Brawls

  
  deCOMPOSE — Authority: 452
  No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval. — I Corinthians 11:19 Differences . Disagreements. Conflict. Brawls . Few of us like having them. In fact, many of us avoid them. Which is a shame. Especially for Christians. Yes, believers are commanded to love one ...
  1 week ago

• On Self-Righteousness and Critical Thinking

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 109
  This is a re-post (with a few minor corrections and revisions) of one of my more popular posts (original here ). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * “You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe.” – Carl Sagan ...
  1 week ago

• Nerdgasmic news: free online courses from Stanford and MIT

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 109
  Stanford University and a couple other colleges are offering free courses. I just signed up for this one on Model Thinking . Scroll to the bottom and you can see the other courses offered. Also, in case you were unaware, MIT now offers free online course material through their MIT Open Courseware site . ...
  1 week ago

• Humane Educators Toolbox: Parodying Societys Unrealistic Standards of Beauty

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 111
  Image from "Fotoshop by Adobé" "Its you, perfected... Finally look the way youve always dreamed." ~ from  "Fotoshop by Adobé" Weve seen the ads that portray impossible and unrealistic standards, and the exposés that highlight the alteration of images of the beautiful and thin to make them even more ...
  1 week ago

• Effective Thinking…

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 109
  … is the name of a new blog run by the Center for Effective Thinking. I have corresponded with the Center’s founder (William Minto) on and off for the past couple of years, and I’m very excited that he is now blogging. This is definitely one to add to your bookmarks, RSS feeds, etc. Effective Thinking… © ...
  1 week ago

• Critical Thinking and the Scientific Process First—Humanities Later

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 639
  Vinod Khosla If luck favors the prepared mind, as Louis Pasteur is credited with saying, we’re in danger of becoming a very unlucky nation. Little of the material taught in schools today is relevant to the future. Consider all the science and economics that has been updated, the shifting theories of ...
  1 week ago

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