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Cognitive Dissonance
Study Hall Hell: Why It’s An Even Bigger Waste of Time Than It Ever Was
The rise of technology has really done one thing for all of us. It’s made it a lot easier to work from anywhere. We can take work home on disc or stick and we can sure as hell do it when we want to. Very few things, especially in the educational context, actually needs to [...]
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Reflections
Battlestar Galactica: Rules, Considerations & Resolution
This is a random rambling about Battlestar Galactica. I can’t get it to come out right, and frankly, I give up. This post sucks. Battlestar was good. And it makes you think outside of the box. That’s what I’m trying to say. But I’m still posting.
I have always been a science fiction fan. Star Wars, [...] -
Cognitive Dissonance
What If Schools Get In The Way?
I am going to go and piss on a lot of lawns today with this one.
But.
Don’t say I didn’t warn ya.
Here we go.
What if schools get in the way of students?
Please note that this opinion is entirely based in the frame of the developed nation. United States. Japan. Western Europe. Basically countries where people have [...] -
Cognitive Dissonance
Cut the Tripe
Reductionism.
Don’t really know the ‘official’ philosophy behind it, but the all-mighty Wikipedia says…
Reductionism can either mean (a) an approach to understanding the nature of complex things by reducing them to the interactions of their parts, or to simpler or more fundamental things or (b) a philosophical position that a complex system is nothing but the [...] -
Reflections
A New Hope
In a brief foray away from cynicism, I must comment that I am very happy to see that my fellow citizens have chosen Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America.
Hope is powerful.
I have been a big political cynicist since the GOP-fueled witch-hunt of President Bill Clinton. Ever since the Republican [...]
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