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Month: May 2012

  • Conspiracy Theories by the Dozen, Oh My! (updated 21may12)

    George Rebane [Correction: This is the submitted form of my column that appeared belatedly in the print edition of the 25may12 Union.  I was informed of the delay due to a rush of political columns and articles on the new marijuana ordnance.] In this election year all the weird stuff we’ve been hearing about seems…

  • ‘Me Generation’ looks for work

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary that was broadcast on 11 May 2012.] It’s graduation season during a particularly intense election year while the economy is stuck in the mud, and technological advances still come pouring out the research universities and private industry.  Our educational system at all levels puts…

  • Prelude to an American Spring?

    George Rebane Last night after supper I spent several hours with a Nevada County high school teacher talking about the state of education here and across the country.  He told of how top students, some of them brilliant, appear directionless with no focus or fire to go and do some definite thing with their lives. …

  • Ruminations – 8may12

    George Rebane Happy VE Day!  On 8 May 1945 the Rebanes were in Liederberg – a small German farming village that just a few days ago was firmly brought under the control of Patton’s Third Army (more here) – and ready to be carted off to Augsburg and four years of internment in post-war displaced…

  • ‘… to shift the burden of hardship to the rich …’

    George Rebane That promise is resounding worldwide as socialist/communist politicians promise to ease the long overdue payments for profligate government spending in countries facing financial ruin.  Today France elected Francois Hollande to be its new president.  How did Hollande beat Sarkozy?  by promising to shift the burden of hardship, naturally. The rich are already paying…

  • Fair Division 101

    George Rebane It’s usually tough to divide up a set of assets when a partnership breaks up, spouses get divorced, or any set of in/divisible assets or resources must be allocated between multiple parties.  The study of fair division algorithms has seen a considerable amount of research and it isn’t over yet.  A good fair…

  • edX – ‘a revolution in education’ (addended)

    George Rebane MIT and Harvard have announced the launch of edX, a “disruptive” initiative in worldwide online education that will leverage the best teachers with interactive learning technology.  The promise of this newest of such initiatives that follow in the footsteps of the Kahn Academy is that it could well disrupt the careers of incompetent…

  • The Bayes Surface and more (updated 19jan13)

     George Rebane [This post continues the numeracy series on the Bayes contribution to our civilization.  For more background and examples, please see ‘Making Medical Decisions’.]    What you see here is a 3D graphical illustration of the celebrated Bayes Theorem (or formula).  I have not seen this beautiful surface presented in the literature, so I wrote…

  • Education, teacher meritocracy, and our national future

    George Rebane RR has long promoted the idea that education in wealth producing/sustaining fields is the ONLY solution to America’s economic and social problems.  Former SecState and now distinguished senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, George Shultz co-authors ‘Education Is the Key to a Healthy Economy’ with Eric Hanushek in which they acknowledge our broken…

  • Socialism as predicted …

    George Rebane Thousands of businesses are paying their ‘fines’ to opt out of Obamacare as they terminate their healthcare packages and leave their employees to fend for themselves.  Wait until they see how much money they’ll be saving sailing steerage class on this Titanic2. In the meantime, Mercatus Center’s Veronique de Rugby has published the…

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