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Archive for November, 2011
Our mismatch between the skills required for available jobs and individuals with those skills is growing faster than all but one other state, Delaware.
The Magic of “Computational Thinking” Training More Folks Who Can Get Jobs? In response to OPED at the Seattle Times. Rosemary McAuliffe, State Senator and Ed Lazowska , UW Prof. pof Computer Science Like evangelicals of the past, Senator . McAuliffe and Professor Lazowska, have a [...]
November 8th, 2011 - 11:09 am § in Uncategorized
The Other Side, the 1% speak out!
Click the image for a view from the 1% !!!![...]
November 8th, 2011 - 9:49 am § in America
BREAKING NEWS: Early Polls Look Bad For the Repricans
OHIO: (D) Sherrod Brown 49% (R) Josh Mandel 34% NEVADA: (D) Shelley Berkley 45% (R) Dean Heller 45% WISCONSIN: (D) Tammy Baldwin 44% (R) Tommy Thompson 46% The Dems have have come from behind to statistical ties in NV and WI,and are m[...]
November 8th, 2011 - 9:16 am § in America
BREAKING NEWS: Hillary for VEEP
TopNews of India Reports on America’s Race for 2012. TopNewS from India is reporting that polls show Clinton outperforming Obama in a race against Mitt Romney by 17 points, 55 percent-38 percent and Perry by 26 points, 58 percent-32 percent. Obama leads Romney by only 3 percentage poin[...]
Another New Journal Challenges Elsevier’s Monopoly on Biology.
Royal Society to launch into the great wide open By Paul Jump Times Higher Education Top researchers in biology have yet another publishing option following the launch of a major open-access journal by the Royal Society. Open Biology, which will cover all areas with a molecular or cellular element[...]
November 7th, 2011 - 8:25 am § in America
BERKELEY BLOG: Lessons for the Occupation from the Tea Baggers
What the Occupy movement can learn from the Tea Party Lawrence Rosenthal, executive director, Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements | 11/3/11 | It’s important to look at the Occupy Movement in the context of the Tea Party movement.Both were utterly unexpected and both were game-[...]
Why We Should Have a Free Market in Education
from Sound Politics by pudge, Maybe Obama Needs to Go Back to School Our entire nation depends, for our economic future, on an industry that gets hundreds of billions of dollars in direct subsidies from the federal government each year. This year, President Obama’s administration is increasi[...]
November 6th, 2011 - 8:59 am § in Misc.
How to support the 99%? AVE BLUE
My godamn phone just rang. Somone with a southern accent wants me to give money to the Democratic Campaign for The Everglades. I never heard of these people. Yesterday the call was from Jim McDermitt’s cmapign .. if they do not get another $25, I was warned, Jim can’t do his job of[...]
November 6th, 2011 - 4:49 am § in America
SUNDAY REVELATION: Christian roots, trunk and branches for the Third Reich
Hitler was a True Christian™ from PZ Meyers on Pharygula. If you tuned in to that local debate on Christian radio, you know that one of the points the Christian fool trotted out was the tired old claim that the Nazis were no true Christians — no True Christian™ would ever commit such horrible[...]