Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Albeit they possess the Might ...

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Nonetheless, we have the will. Last Tuesday evening (April 15), after arriving home, feeding the cats, and changing out of my work clothes, ...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Remembering the Slide Rule

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This came up as a thread in the “Off-Topic Observatory” of the Cloudy Nights discussion board for amateur astronomers. People have all kinds...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

ChatGPT and the Historical Forms of Academic Dishonesty

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  In one criminology class, our professor said that 80% of people are honest 80% of the time; about 20% of the goods on the market have no c...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

HOW TO KEEP TEENAGERS FROM READING AYN RAND

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The Ayn Rand Institute created a guide book for high school teachers who want to bring Anthem into their classroom as an assigned reading. ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

An Online Class in Astrophysics

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I recently completed a survey in astrophysics offered by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne through edX, a program created by Harv...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

The Great Lakes Maritime Academy

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On Friday, May 17, I was granted a tour of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City. It was arra...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

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Nothing has changed in the fifty years since Richard Hofstadter chronicled the history of anti-intellectualism. The warning bell may seem m...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Tarzan, the Amazons, and my Mother

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Public education ain’t what it used to be.  It is a law of economics that collectivism is inefficient, an entropic downward path. So, it is...
Monday, May 15, 2017

ANOC: Advanced Non-commissioned Officer Course

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On the weekend 10-12 March 2017, I completed the Advanced Non-Commissioned Officer Class (ANOC) of the Texas State Guard. Although the J-7 ...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Elisha S. Loomis and the Pythagorean Proposition

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The fact that over 300 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem are known and an infinite number are possible is in and of the nature of the unive...