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Fantastic talk on the power and value of doodling… Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite! | Video on TED.com
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My first foray into political website making has proved a success! Hooray!!!!! The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators has won the seats they were running for (including president) in the Chicago Teachers Union election. Congratulations to everyone at CORE! The website (CORETeachers.com) uses a fully customized WordPress theme (based on Sandbox). …and the winner is, – [...]
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The slate of the Caucus of Rank and File Educators, CORE, has forced a run-off election against the incumbent United Progressive Caucus slate, headed by President Marilyn Stewart. UPC has come under harsh criticism from the opposing slates for a perceived unwillingness to organize with teachers and parents to fight privatization, as well as for [...]
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On their latest episode of NPR’s Planet Money, Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg point fingers. And they talk to a guy named Ian Bremmer who says something that we all need to get onboard with. Concerning the firestorm of heat AIG’s current CEO (newly appointed, not responsible for the crisis at AIG) is getting for [...]
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution introduced two days earlier that designates March 14, 2009 (3/14, get it?) as National Pi Day. It urges schools to take the opportunity to teach their students about Pi and “engage them about the study of mathematics.” I am going to Pi-arty my radius off!!!! [...]
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Iran is blowing up…with blogs. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that Iranian bloggers are mainly young democrats critical of the regime, we found a wide range of opinions representing religious conservative points of view as well as secular and reform-minded ones, and topics ranging from politics and human rights to poetry, religion, and pop [...]
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Sounds like a scary title. Sounds so…Chinese. But according to this video, a democracy is the last thing we want in America (ok, second or third to the last thing we want). Unlike we products of public schools, the Founding Fathers of our country knew the difference between a republic and a democracy. That difference [...]
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It’s really actually pretty awesome: CERN Rap from Will Barras on Vimeo.
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