Episode 2 is now available for download: Agassiz, Inc. Please share far and wide, early and often. Thanks! This week I speak with biographer Christoph Irmscher about the legacy of Louis Agassiz, one of the most influential men in the development of the practice of science in America. Irmscher’s book is called Louis Agassiz: Creator [...]
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“takers and parasites,” this means you
It is this–more from Matalin than from Romney–that makes me believe the US has “leaders” (oligarchs) entirely capable of a massive “downsizing” of its population. Who would offer to defend the population of the US against its government/oligarchs? Who can “correct” the unmatched military power in the world–the one who has proven more than ready [...]
Miseducation of Me
This is my Lauryn Hill: And this: But then again, this is my Matthew Modine (and my Journey): “I haven’t done anything yet…” What have I learned?
Whose Killer-in-Chief?
Does your tribe trust the killer-in-chief? From Gawker…go there, watch the video, and, if you please, come back. Ask the DNC: Is Romney Ready for the Kill List? John Cook As you may have heard last night, Osama bin Laden is dead, has perished from the earth, is at the bottom of the sea, and [...]
Paving the Way
The idea that “saving” or protecting aspects of the world actually implies destruction of the remainder–a lack of needing to care about the world in its wholeness. For example let’s take National Parks. Implicit in a law protecting the environment from our destructive resource depletion and waste is the approval for the industrial rapine that [...]
Common Core: Drones and Derivatives
Derivatives and Drones–are they distinguishable? Anti-Empathy Education focused on screened presence. CEO and CIA: Barker and Huckster at home and abroad. Institutions of Debt Creation insulate consequences from those who make them happen. Absolution by distance. Look, a keystroke destroys communities in Jefferson County, Alabama and Shabwa Province, Yemen. More similar than distinct: Moguls of [...]
But It Isn’t Freedom
Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens, I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth. [...]
Tech is Production is Revenue is Education Reform
Western Mind is dominated by the Visual. Tech is Visual. Current School Reform is Technological. Educational Technology is Visual. Educational Technology is a Product. The product is digital electronic. It is a capital production. It has production and consumption as motivation. Learning is irrelevant but that students learn production and consumption of the digital-technological-visual. Production [...]
What Is a National Consciousness?
Henry James in his critical study of Hawthorne in 1879 (my textual break) on the “American mind” before and after the Civil War. When this event occurred, he was therefore proportionately horrified and depressed by it; it cut from beneath his feet the familiar ground which had long felt so firm, substituting a heaving and [...]
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