Tag education

Climate Change: How bad can it be?

It is easy to become lulled into intellectual somnolence by the seemingly gradual changes we are incurring in our weather. After all, just how bad can a couple of degrees be? Oh, we wake up every once in a while…

Changing education paradigms

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award. Truly amazing, fun to watch, filled with ideas how to change education.

2010 Midterms: Jobs vs. Wars in California

California's budget crisis is actually much less than they're spending on the war in Afghanistan. $26 billion for the budget vs $38 billion for war. And what do they get for it? It's not better to live in California thanks to the war. It's actually getting much, much worse.