How can we expose more people to critical thinking?
Tools for Fools
by Rob Lister » Sun Jun 28, 2020 4:14 pm
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This thread is about all things tools.
Let me pump some schmoo on you.
Automagic schmoo squirter.
You'll have to exsqueeze AvE. He's Canudian....
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Starrett is a legendary tool maker. some of the in-crowd of machining orgasm over them (mrpete222 , abom79 , etc.)
it ain't the $, its the quality....
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Free Science Books
by Llacheu » Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:41 pm
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Well some of them are real science books/papers. Some are questionable, so read before downloading. But there are some good reads there too.
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Free math textbooks from the American Institute of Mathematics, if somebody's interested:
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How?
by robinson » Fri Apr 17, 2020 3:46 pm
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It’s not hard when a matter is a non political one
But if it’s a matter of faith and belief, very very hard
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Arguing/discussing shit on the internet is almost always a huge waste of time
But, sometimes I learn some me things new and valuable from “the...
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College admissions bribery scandal
by Pyrrho » Tue Mar 12, 2019 10:10 pm
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Yeah well whatever.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday indicted dozens of people — including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin — in...
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Basically a slap on the wrist if memory serves, but at least a slap that's hard enough to sting a bit. They'll each spend a few months in jail, do a...
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For their own good...
by Pyrrho » Tue Dec 24, 2019 2:31 pm
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
When Syracuse University...
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Good point Pyrrho! Should be. Further, professor evaluation should be directly tied to professor salary.
That'd weed out the fucking ineffective...
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The education rat race
by Anaxagoras » Thu Sep 19, 2019 3:34 am
Longish article by George Packer in The Atlantic :
When the Culture War Comes for the Kids
Caught between a brutal meritocracy and a radical new...
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School funding
by Pyrrho » Sun May 05, 2019 11:48 pm
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On the one hand, teachers having to buy supplies themselves.
On the other...
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P. – S.
Reminded me of this I'd seen recently:
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Is this offensive/racist? A course of study
by ed » Sat Sep 01, 2018 11:57 am
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It is increasingly important for all of us to recognize offensive and/or racist material with nothing more than a glance.
This thread will help us...
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↑↑↑ Kitsch, especially well-meaning kitsch, is always offensive. (To Humanity, of course.)
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The campus political correctness thread
by Anaxagoras » Wed Feb 24, 2016 4:40 am
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Figured we should have a catchall thread for the wackiest examples of political correctness at universities.
So here's an opening bid:
Facial, not...
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USD law school: Hawaiian Day party is offensive. Hawaiian state rep: No it's not.
The University of South Dakota Law School pressured the...
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More on Chromebook: Education
by Rob Lister » Sun Aug 17, 2014 11:17 am
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The headline:
Chromebooks: 1 Million Sold in 3 Months
Isn't very impressive. Unless you consider who bought them.
iPads are still the apple of...
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More on this for anyone here that cares about our children. :)
The Windows S machines are more or less tailored to classroom use. It makes many...
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Bored at school? There's an app for that.
by Pyrrho » Sun Sep 18, 2016 11:39 am
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A Chinese university lecturer is using facial-recognition technology on his students to help determine the level of interest in his classes, a tool...
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He is My Bitch.
He cannot escape from me.
--J.D.
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Charter schools
by Anaxagoras » Wed Aug 24, 2016 4:25 am
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Charter schools are like private schools funded with public money. The theory is that by allowing competition, the best schools will prevail. Some...
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Charter schools are like private schools funded with public money.
No true, they are just slightly less regulated than the typical public school....
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Reading fantasy gives you brain damage, man
by Pyrrho » Sat May 14, 2016 10:29 pm
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Graeme Whiting, the headmaster and founder of the Acorn School, an independent private school in Gloucestershire, U.K., wrote a convoluted blog post...
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--J.D.
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999 and then some
by Pyrrho » Fri Mar 25, 2016 12:13 pm
I wonder what parts of this story are actually true and/or really happened:
What's the largest number you can represent with 3 digits? Nope....
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Texas, educated
by Witness » Tue Mar 08, 2016 4:37 am
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Texas education board dreads possible return of culture war with anti-gay candidate
AUSTIN – Mary Lou Bruner has at least twice said President...
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Speaking of Texas news, has anyone brought up Robert Morrow yet?
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UConn plans to build special housing for black males
by Anaxagoras » Thu Feb 04, 2016 7:04 am
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With the totally hip name of ScHOLA²RS House . :notsure:
Civil rights group challenges UConn over black-only dorm plans
A civil rights...
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Bite response perhaps?
No.
Wait...
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Pay for protests
by Pyrrho » Sat Dec 19, 2015 8:16 pm
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And the food needs an upgrade!
Oberlin College Students Protest The Cafeteria Food Not Being “Culturally Accurate” Enough, Demand To Be Paid An...
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--J.D.
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Navy to teach Navigation
by Rob Lister » Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:35 pm
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It Will Take More Than Celestial Navigation to Hack-Proof the Navy
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Navigation nowadays, however, isn't a skill to be practiced and perfected so...
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--J.D.
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Lectures are discriminatory
by Anaxagoras » Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:10 am
DOES the college lecture discriminate? Is it biased against undergraduates who are not white, male and affluent?
The notion may seem absurd on its...
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UCB: The Harrison Bergeron School of Mathematics
by EvilYeti » Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:31 pm
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They don't call it the People's Republic of Berkeley for nothing.
Their CIO accused me of being racist, btw, for having the temerity to suggest that...
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If not renewing your contract means they have to hire someone else to take your place, that means it's a firing. If not renewing the contract is...
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A Game of Tag
by Pyrrho » Fri Sep 25, 2015 2:10 pm
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Not really banned...just reimagined.
The cause for concern, the school district explained, were some “isolated incidents of unfortunate...
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They should introduce British Bulldog
Bunch of pansies. Not, of course....
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Computers lower school grades
by Rob Lister » Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:46 pm
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This is a bit convoluted
A report issued by the UK's Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has evaluated how technology in...
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I agree completely. A quibble ...
And that learning to be an end user is computer literacy .
If they would just teach that it would be 'good...
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