Tag: Education
Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thomas Piketty sets out a proposal to start addressing inequality across the EU. Derek Thompson discusses how
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Has Jason Kenney Evolved?
The Up Series is an amazing documentary that follows the lives of 14 British children over five decades. The children were interviewed every seven years
Continue readingThe Maple Monarchists - Blog: Prince’s Trust Canada Helping Preserve And Revitalize Indigenous Languages
The Prince’s Trust Canada (which isthe successor to The Prince’s CharitiesCanada with the name change occurringin August) has undertaken severalinitiatives to provide books and teachingtools
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Ten considerations for the next Alberta budget
Over at the Behind The Numbers website, I’ve written a blog post titled “Ten considerations for the next Alberta budget.” The blog post is a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Anna Bawden reports on new research from the Health Foundation showing the multiple ways in which young people
Continue readingScripturient: Dictionary vs Dictionary.com
Did you know that doxastic is a philosophical adjective relating to an individual’s beliefs? Or that doxorubicin was an antibiotic used in treating leukemia? Or
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity
I wonder if we’ll look to orbital debris skeptics to inform our choices on this issue…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Screen Writing in No Country for Old Men & 2+2
I think it may be expository blog post week here at DWR. I found this first video on how a small portion of writing for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Informal Currencies – Ramen in the American Penal System
I’ve always found the packaged noodles to be a bit too salty for my taste. I’m definitely going to have to avoid the American prison
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anti-Porn Resources.
Nice to have some quick facts and statistics all in one place. When arguing wit porn-sick dudes there is almost always a bevy of misinformation
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Oxford Comma
I’m a big fan of the OXC as I like to write in a clear, concise, and easy to understand way. 🙂
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Hello Ottawa!
Ms Soapbox is on her way to Ottawa. There’s a good chance she’s in the air right now squashed into a tiny little seat trying
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Huey P. Newton on Marxism, Dialectical Materialism and the Black Panther Party
Long read, the rest is under the fold. “I would like to explain to you the method that the Black Panther Party used to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Closed-Mindedness
How does one deal with conspiracy theorists? Quassim Cassam tackles this often thorny adventure in the dealing with the tinfoil hat crew. On the individual
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Find Your Nerves of Steel – Professor Michele Moore on The Harms of Gender-Self ID in Children
Good talk.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Yutaka Dirks reviews Lars Osberg’s The Age of Increasing Inequality, with a particular focus on how matters have
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Judy Paul discusses how everybody benefits from the fight against inequality: Also of interest is the levels of
Continue readingcentre of the universe: A Canadian (Thanksgiving) Parable
Once there was a Queen. She reigned over many lands, in the manner of constitutional monarchies with their own parliamentary systems based largely, if not
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