Maybe Cardinal Newman was right: higher education does not exist for the sake of training, but to turn undergrads into more interesting people... more
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The elimination of poverty ought to be within our grasp, and yet for hundreds of millions of people over the globe, it remains but a dream. Why can't the world's wealth be shared?... more
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Sean Wilentz's move from hard-left labour historian to defender of traditional, some might say conservative, political history seems an odd turn... more
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“Thoughts are magnetic,” says Rhonda Byrne, “and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency.” Money must be on the same frequency... more
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Lady Jane Grey, the “nine-day queen”, was virginal, sweet, and beheaded at the age of 16, a notorious victim of the Tudors, or so it is thought... more
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Tens of thousands of years of human mating norms are evaporating as Cro-Magnon males drag women into their caves, and the women love every minute of it... more
Fun websites to waste time on via MakeUseOf.com by Karl L Gechlik
- Let's start with College Humor. They offer so much stuff that will make you laugh it is almost unreal!
- Along the same lines but geared toward men’s magazines content is Maxim Online. They often have links to CollegeHumor's videos but this is where I come for some funny jokes and ridiculously smoking women. The site can be construed by some people as not funny or going too far so be forewarned that the content is probably NSFW and could be offensive to some.
- Next up is my favorite web comic, XKCD, [has to be up there with my favourites as well, H] which has lots of old archives to waste time on.
- I love me some scrabble so I play games and dominate in Literati. The only place I can find it is at Yahoo Games.
- I have also been known to lose a few hours to Google Image Labeler – but hey that's just me right?
Across the land, in colleges at every level of quality, students are spending far less time studying than they did thirty years ago... more ... Why? A few theories
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The arrest in 1894 of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus for revealing French military secrets to the German embassy rocked a nation. Its echoes are heard still... more
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A thousand years of economic bubbles, panics, and collapses shows that investors always think “this time is different”. We're not as naive as our parents or their parents. Oh, yeah?... more
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