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Come check out these mousepads in our Zazzle store

Posted December 8th, 2009 by admin

Come check out these mousepads in our Zazzle store.

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Holiday T-shirt Sale at Simply Charly

Posted December 4th, 2009 by admin

Get 10% off all t-shirts from the Simply Charly Store. Coupon code:10OFFTSHIRTS

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Tom Paine, Warts and All - WSJ.com

Posted November 23rd, 2009 by admin

Arguably the most influential crank in American political history, Thomas Paine the man—as opposed to Thomas Paine the author of hackle-raising tracts such as “Common Sense”—has been all but lost to contemporary memory.

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Interview | The Brave New World: Tristram Hunt On Marx and Engels’ Revolutionary Vision

Posted November 23rd, 2009 by admin

A German social scientist, political activist and philosopher, Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895) was, along with Karl Marx (1818-1883), the father of Communist theory. He was instrumental in writing of the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, two of the world’s most influential political manuscripts. Read more…

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Book Review | Stephen Hawking: A Biography by Kristine Larsen

Posted November 23rd, 2009 by admin

Kristine Larsen begins her biography of Stephen Hawking with a central question: how has a theoretical physicist known for “esoteric mathematics” and “the secret language of general relativity” become a cultural icon and the most recognizable scientist in the world? While the author still grapples with the same question by the end of this brief [...]

What Do We Really Know?

Posted May 31st, 2008 by admin

From TedTalks:
Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why—though we want to know more about the world than ever—the US media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs.
Take a look at this video and be amazed at what we are not told…

Happy learning!

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Helicopter Parents

Posted May 17th, 2008 by admin

The life of a college student is defined by freedom and the chance to discover, finally, who you are as a person and come into your own. This is a vital time in a young adult’s life and it is critical that they be allowed to make mistakes and learn from them, sometimes on their [...]

An Unconventional Author

Posted April 19th, 2008 by admin

Mr. Philip M. Parker, a chaired professor of management science, has developed a unique way of writing books. An article in the New York Times examines his unconventional method of compiling the “meat” of a book by using his developed algorithms to collect publicly available information on a subject. Mr. Parker then, with the assistance [...]