Folsom Prison Blues/Pinball Wizard Mashup – Johnny Cash – The Who – Puddles Pity Party – YouTube
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Puddles Pity Party does a Folsom Prison Blues/Pinball Wizard Mashup
The campaign to put science and tech leaders in public office starts now | Ars Technica
Yes, more of this please. The two attributes I want in a politician are logic and ethics.
Source: The campaign to put science and tech leaders in public office starts now | Ars Technica
The Need for Competition
THIS!!!! Holy shit how can the Republicans who are supposedly so pro-market allow the market to be dominated by so few players?!? Because they're not really pro-market? They're just pro-rich assholes giving them money.
Jason Furman, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama and now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, argues that “both microeconomi…
Source: The Need for Competition
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Source: Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
Climbing the Horseshoe
Yep, this.
Assholes on the left and right ruining it for all the sensible people.
Making Business Ethics a Cumulative Science
Such is the goal of Jonathan Haidt and Linda Trevino in a recent Nature article. “Imagine a world,” they write, in which medical researchers did experiments on rats, but never on people…
Natural “Narrative Selection” Was the Key to Success for our Species | Big Think
Natural "narrative selection" was key to turning insignificant apes (who had tools for 2 million years) into the species that now dominates the bio-sphere.
Source: Natural "Narrative Selection" Was the Key to Success for our Species | Big Think
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why We Have Dysfunctional Politicians | Big Think
Astrophysicist and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals if he'd run for President and what he would do if elected.
Source: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why We Have Dysfunctional Politicians | Big Think
Every nation gets the government it deserves.
-- Joseph de Maistre
This is the fundamental problem. American education sucks and the majority of Americans are idiots as a result. They haven't been taught how to learn, only how to memorize. So now they all bitch about congress and then vote to re-elect the same assholes.
Calling Bullshit
This makes me happy. Now if we can just make it mandatory for every grade from K through 12 the citizens might stand a chance against the politicians and the corporations that own them.
Source: Calling Bullshit
Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at Reading & Math | Open Culture
Should we teach philosophy to children? You’d have a hard time, I imagine, convincing many readers of this site that we shouldn’t. But why?
YES! Everyone should graduate high school with the equivalent of an AA in Philosophy. How can we expect people to know how to think when we don't teach them?