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Category: Critical Thinking & Numeracy

  • The Futility of Searching for Common Ground

    George Rebane My original ‘Quo tendimus?’ piece (here) was published in the 20apr21 Union (here) retitled ‘Where exactly are we headed?’, I guess, to make it more accessible to the newspaper’s readership who are classed not capable of googling the original Latin.  The article immediately drew the vitriol, ire, and personal invective from a long…

  • Critical Race Theory and the March of Marxism

    [CRT is the most putrid piece of anti-American pedagogy to infect our institutions in at least the last 100 years.  Thanks to the Democratic Party, it is now rampant as it metastasizes the minds of our lightly read neighbors, products of schools that for years have focused their students on America’s sins.  Today CRT is…

  • Sandbox – 10apr21

    [Apologies.  Have no idea where the time went since the 24mar21 Sandbox.  Actually, I'm in the middle of presenting a series of seminars on numeracy and critical thinking, and working on the PowerPoints got me a bit absorbed.  Mea culpa.  gjr]

  • ‘A Thousand Brains’

    George Rebane Jeff Hawkins, cofounder of Numenta, is the author of A Thousand Brains – A new theory of intelligence (2021).  To many, me included, Hawkins has been a national treasure since his first book On Intelligence (2004).  After inventing the Palm Pilot and becoming wealthy, Hawkins has devoted his life to brain research as…

  • Socialist Semantics

    “When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just when and what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less. ' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things. ' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.” …

  • The Success of Socialist Schooling

    George Rebane In the recent 'Dark Days Diary' (here) I highlighted a short dissertation on the spread of communism by a former KGB agent.  As we have pointed out here and he confirms, the spread of that evil ideology is made possible by its acolytes initially gaining control of a target nation’s public educational system. …

  • Dark Days Diary – 2apr21

    George Rebane Various knowledgeable authors are trying to warn us of how the accelerating Cold War 2.0 with China (and Russia) can quickly spiral out of control into WW3.  The latest alert came last month with the release of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War.  This fictional novel spins a very detailed and…

  • Farewell Unity (updated 3apr21)

    [This commentary appears as an op-ed column in the 3apr21 Union (here).  Unfortunately, a typo survived in the submitted version.  The sentence "Today, our country is divided into two distinct ideological camps that each total at least half of Americans."  The word 'each' does not belong.  Here I have also appended an abstract that summarizes…

  • Scattershots – 15mar2021 (updated 19mar21)

    George Rebane The Ides of March.  2065 years ago, if I recall correctly, it was a very bad day for Julius Caesar – ‘Et tu Brute!’ and all that.  Bummer. Speaking of inhumane acts, Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) contrasted treatment of illegal aliens under Trump and Biden, and stated unequivocally that “Building a wall is…

  • Bumblebrain’s Bungles – 14mar21

    George Rebane Here’s an exercise in critical thinking that’s been circling the backwaters of my brainbone.  Most of the nation has debated Biden’s mental capacity and come down on this side or that.  And during this time a lot of new evidence keeps coming in on the policies he’s intitiated and how he’s handling his…

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