By Ursula Lindsey, Chronicle of Higher Education Cairo Archaeologists inside and outside Egypt are anxiously monitoring the fate of the country’s antiquities, after several museums and archaeological sites were looted following the pervasive protests and security vacuum that have gripped the c[...]
Archive for February, 2011
February 3rd, 2011 - 2:28 pm § in Misc.
Global Warning ….Listen to It!
from Steve Haushka UW News By Sandra Hines Listen to an Ice Berg Breaking Up At 76 miles long and 17 miles wide, the iceberg would have extended from Olympia all the way to Sedro-Woolley, had it been in the Puget Sound basin. Its actual location was near Antarctica’s Cape Adare where it was speedi[...]
February 3rd, 2011 - 12:31 pm § in Politics
Egypt, Oil and Democracy
Read Political Economic Analysis by Nate Silver, NYT[...]
Climate Denial
Thanks to Jefferson and the enlightenment, the American Revolution gave us a society that bans blasphemy laws. Is this is a good thing? Scientific truth .. whether that truth is based in particle physics or historical research, is different from the religious truths of the past or the doctrinaire tr[...]
February 3rd, 2011 - 2:00 am § in Schools & Colleges
Deep Cuts at Arizona
Gov. Jan Brewer has proposed a $170 million cut to the universities for fiscal 2012, an amount that, if enacted, would amount to a 37 percent reduction in state support to the schools from the past thee years. Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/02/20110202[...]
UW Students Will Lobby For Funding
Huskies on the Hill Lobby Day: February 11, 2011 When: Friday, February 11th, 7am-4:30pm What: Meet with your state legislators in Olympia and speak up for higher education. Cost: Free! Lunch & transportation provided. Sign Up here to reserve your space. FACULTY ARE WELCOME!!!!!!!! We’re w[...]
February 2nd, 2011 - 1:52 pm § in America
Letter to Obama from PEACE NOW,
Tom Friedman got it right in today’s New York Times: The huge political changes going on in the Middle East make a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians more urgent than ever. ”I had given up on Netanyahu’s cabinet and urged the U.S. to walk away,” Friedman wrote. [...]
FOX attacks Al Jazeera
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Everyone of O’Reilly’s quotes show NOT that the Qatar based news channel is biased but that Al Jazeera actually reports what happens. If some crazed ex internee talks wildly about being hexed in Gitmo by Jews and witches, is that something we d[...]
Privatizing the UW, one buck at a time.
Seattle Times: Rising tuition a threat to GET program The GET program commits Washington State to pay tuition at a state school in return for savings by the parents put into GET. In effect “we” have guaranteed parents that their investments will pay for their kids’ education.[...]
February 1st, 2011 - 11:58 pm § in Uncategorized
Seeds Of Exploitation
When someone presents a social responsibility proposal at a corporate annual meeting, the inevitable response is that corporations are in business to make money for their shareholders, and saving the world is someone else’s responsibility. Which is, of course, the best argument anyone can make[...]