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From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Hey You, Academe Political Conformity
Hey You, Are You Listening, Are You Thinking? Mark Moyar, A Conservative Professor on Academe’s Political Conformity: Decades of ideological homogeneity have hurt everyone, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 30, 2024: In fact, no mobs materialized to bar my path. No leftists showed up to jeer my remarks…
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J. D. Vance’s Insult to America is to Propagandize American Modernism
Jessica Gavora, in The Atlantic (July 25, 2024, 7:31 AM ET) wrote: I thought of Dad last week, when the Republican vice-presidential nominee, J. D. Vance, said something that profoundly misjudged and disrespected his memory. “America is not just an idea,” Vance said in his introductory speech to the American people…
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Why are Vice-Chancellors putting up with it?
“Between 2010 and 2019, UK universities paid more than £1bn in journal subscriptions and other publishing charges. More than 90% of these fees went to the big five commercial publishers (UCL and Manchester shelled out over £4m each). It’s worth remembering that the universities funded this research, paid the salaries of the academics who produced…
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The Work of Dzavid Haveric for Queensland History
Dr Dzavid Haveric of Charles Sturt University is the leading historian in the story of Muslim-Australian experiences. He has also published about an Islamic leader, sometime ago, in Queensland history, who was a philosopher. His work covers those experiences of soldiers during World War I (and more) who were of the Islamic faith or…
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Happy Birthday. From Those Who Understand Accountability! The Youngest Daughter’s Gift.
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The second of a three post series. My youngest daughter gave the following birthday present: Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hesserus (2022; editors). Knowledge and information: The Potential and Peril of Human Intelligence, Stolpe Publishing. As a book for our times it is…
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Happy Birthday. From Those Who Understand Accountability! The Oldest Daughter’s Gift.
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The third and final of a three post series. My oldest daughter gave the following birthday present: some money and six cup cakes delivered to the door Our family has been very good at understanding cognition histories and social psychology. Inside Out…
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Happy Birthday. Accountability would be a wonderful gift!
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. For a treat I had my first formal “conversation” with ‘generative artificial intelligence’ (G.I.A.). It was weird as the G.I.A. reported clearer ideas, clearer intelligence, than the human beings who have decision-making powers of whether I will be contracted or employed, the idiots — no one, not even…
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From a quote from out in the world…This is what global persons feel.
“In red states there is a movement to dumb the public. It starts in the educational realm where critical thinking is not simply not taught, it is actively discouraged. If history teach the rest of us that it can repeat itself then citizens of red states are not allowed to hear the full history of…
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How out-of-touch Queensland educational authorities are with the global thinking on assessing learning?
I cannot afford to purchase the book, but it has been saying exactly the concerns I have raised about how out-of-touch Queensland educational authorities are with the global thinking on assessing learning. The reactionary thinkers had taken over and put us in a backward position. New Practices, New Perspectives To grade, or not to grade?…
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Draft SoFiA Position Statement (1 July 2024)
“SOFiA is a network of Australians interested in openly exploring issues of life and meaning through reason, philosophy, ethics, religion, science and the arts. We want to explore for ourselves what we can believe and how we can find meaning in our lives.” “SOFiA has no philosophical or religious position beyond a desire to…