During WWII something pretty amazing happened here … A rural, hick state emerged at or near the top of America’s technocracy. Two war time efforts drove this transformation… Boeing built the airplanes that won the war and Hanford’s plutionium, dropped from one of those pl[...]
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June 16th, 2011 - 6:09 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
The Decline and Fall of Education in Washington State
May 19th, 2011 - 8:28 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Two UW faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,113 and the total n[...]
April 28th, 2011 - 6:58 am § in Politics
Humor: The West Trump Ticket for President
Brother Cornell West should run with Brother Trump as Veep. They certainly would get the hair dresser award! Cornell could do this as a sabbatical, beginning with visitng Alaska to study polemics with Palin. Princeton could help by giving Trump an honorary doctorate. Maybe Trump would reciproc[...]
April 19th, 2011 - 6:19 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Who is Richard Sandefer and Why Should I Care?
Sandefer is the founder of the Acton School of Business and a prime mover behind the effort in Texas to radically change the University of Texas. from Real Estate Investment Ideas No doubt the most unusual M.B.A. program in the country is run by the Acton School of Business in Texas. It is built o[...]
April 18th, 2011 - 10:49 am § in Schools & Colleges
Is the BS in business, just BS? A discussion in the NY Times.
The real problem highlighted here is that college is the new high school. Compared to my late father in law who studied and reveled in Shakespeare and serious European and American history and literature in high school, today college is the best chance for young minds to be educated and develop inte[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 9:36 am § in Misc.
One last world shaking discovery from Fermilab: The God Particle?
From Fermilab’s Tevatron, once the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and now slated to go dark forever in September or earlier, whenever Fermilab runs out of money to operate it. … The Higgs Boson? “Nobody knows what this is, if it is real, it would be the most significant dis[...]
March 31st, 2011 - 9:37 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Will the American taxpayer now be subsidizing students at Yale-Singapore?
Yale Opens College In Singapore As Yale opens its Singapore Campus, shouldn’t we all ask the question …. .. is this the beginning of the globalization of American Higher Education? GE recently got a lot of bad press because it paid no American taxes. The reason for this was that GE IS [...]
February 19th, 2011 - 12:35 am § in Misc.
British Citizens Demand Revolution!
Americans watching the Egyptian Revolution might remember our own history and think about the demonstrations of a few weeks ago in Britain. Students in Britain took to the street to protest the huge increases in tuition under the new British Conservative government. Those increases are well belo[...]
January 30th, 2011 - 1:47 pm § in Misc.
Chapati … A Precedent for the Twitter Revolts in North Africa?
Indian meals begin with chapati .. a true wonder bread. This morning, reading an Indian view of the events in Egypt, I made a discovery … chapatis are a symbol of the use of social networking for revolution! From Chapatimystery.com In late 1856, rumors swept across northern India about a new r[...]
“God is Not Capricious”
adapted from By Don Shelby at Minn Post | Published Tue, Feb 15 2011 State Rep. Mike Beard, Republican, from Shakopee, Minn., is the former president of the local chamber of commerce. He says he cares about humanity. He is a man with deep Christian values, a free-market conservative and a veteran of[...]