Today’s post is at Pajama’s Media, “The Cause of All Discrimination? Me: One man makes a shocking confession.” Logically, if there is discrimination, there must be discriminators and discriminatees. Who, then, are […]
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Education: A Vaccine Against Ignorance? Or, There Are Too Many People!
“Currently, one could argue that the most significant form of global pollution is human population growth.” So says Mr Jack Trevors, Editor-in-Chief of Water, Air, & Soil Pollution (WASP), “an international, interdisciplinary […]
Put Down That Salt!
This is an appropriate day to repost a classic article, especially given this story in the Daily Mail with the headline “The town that’s banned salt.” And don’t forget our “Mandatory National […]
University Professors Teach Too Much: Part IV
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. I know there wasn’t supposed to be a Part IV, but at the risk of boring you, and since this is my fantasy […]
University Professors Teach Too Much: Part III
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. Colleges themselves—which, I remind us, are to be separated from research institutes—should be broken in two: traditional college and technical or trade school […]
University Professors Teach Too Much: Part II
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. In no way should college teachers be judged by what research they produce, if any. Lists of papers and books should be forbidden […]
University Professors Teach Too Much: Part I
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. We are asking our best university professors to spend too much time in the classroom. It would be better for all if these […]
Dear English Rioter
Dear English Rioter, I suppose it wasn’t hard to learn how to fill light bulbs with ammonia (nasty stuff). But how did you bring yourself to throw that first one into a […]
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