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  • Two greats take their leave

    George Rebane Contemplate your god or oblivion, for it will reveal that you will never experience mortality, and at least in that sense you are indeed immortal. Concert pianist Van Cliburn is dead at 78.  Cliburn won world fame in 1958 by taking first prize at the first International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow at…

  • Ruminations – 19feb13

    George Rebane TV weathercasters will soon need AGW certification if they want to talk about climate change on the air, according to a new initiative started by a South Carolina meteorologist.  On National Propaganda Radio this morning was a segment on climate change lamenting that it’s not getting much traction in the public mind lately. …

  • Numbers get a (confused) boost

    George Rebane The importance and magnitude of EVERY social problem lies in its numbers.  If you don’t understand the numbers and how they relate, all you can do is emote about the problem. RR has argued from the start that applying the tools of the systems sciences is critical to the solutions of all social…

  • MOOCing a Bachelor’s degree

    George Rebane A quick update on a major developing theme in education – the massively open online course or MOOC.  I last reported on this progress earlier this month (here). While MOOCs are providing tens of thousands of online students with low cost education and certification in various areas, they have yet to be accepted…

  • Who should (not) vote? (updated 29dec12)

    George Rebane The comment stream under ‘How to Protect School Children in Schools’  is another long one which inevitably becomes a bit hairy by developing threads that start covering the waterfront of issues of interest in these times.  Voter qualification was a thread that, to the best of my knowledge, appeared through some process of…

  • War of Words

    Michael McDaniel It is not a novel concept for opposing political groups to focus on vocabulary superiority.  A feeble minded, me-focused electorate requires the use of buzzwords and sound bites to be manipulated. To the originator of the accepted propaganda-laden words go the spoils.  “Illegal aliens” vs. “undocumented immigrants.” From mislabeled legislation to the accepted…

  • Administrivia – Typepad problem (updated 17oct12, again)

    George Rebane Typepad has been having problems this morning.  Many readers have had trouble logging in to the comments – no comment window appears.  Had the same problem myself this morning, yet others seem to have no problem.  Have reported problem to Typepad.  Keep trying and report your success under this post.  Thanks. [17oct12 update] …

  • Jim Lehrer, Moderator – RIP

    George Rebane For several decades I have been a fan of PBS liberal journalist Jim Lehrer.  He is one of the few remaining professionals in that industry.  Last Wednesday he committed an unforgivable error. Mr Lehrer has long been a national icon of the broadcast industry, the former Marine having made his bones on the…

  • What makes a good community? (addended 25sep12)

    George Rebane It all depends on your definition of how is it ‘good’ for whom.  The notion (meme?) of assessing and/or building a good community started as a thread in my ‘… = Sleazebag’ post.  But it deserves its own venue, because the arguments from the Left and Right will reveal much of what is…

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