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.
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Starrett is a legendary tool maker. some of the in-crowd of machining orgasm over them (mrpete222 , abom79 , etc.)
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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
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Arguing/discussing shit on the internet is almost always a huge waste of time
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College admissions bribery scandal
by Pyrrho » Tue Mar 12, 2019 10:10 pm
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Yeah well whatever.
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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
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Good point Pyrrho! Should be. Further, professor evaluation should be directly tied to professor salary.
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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 :
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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.
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P. – S.
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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.
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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.
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USD law school: Hawaiian Day party is offensive. Hawaiian state rep: No it's not.
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More on Chromebook: Education
by Rob Lister » Sun Aug 17, 2014 11:17 am
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The headline:
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More on this for anyone here that cares about our children. :)
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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
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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:
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Bite response perhaps?
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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!
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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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--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?
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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.
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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.
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They should introduce British Bulldog
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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
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I agree completely. A quibble ...
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