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While the world is changing around us, while creative destruction consumes so many areas, sometimes it seems like education stagnates. After all, ma…
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Change or perish in education...How to build a better teacher
Almost every aspect of our culture and economy has been touched by technology and creative destruction. Still, three areas have lagged behind, and al…
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Information....adapt or perish
So much of the way our brains and nervous system are hardwired, emerges as man did, from the primordial stew of life. Clearly, modern science tells u…
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The Power of Creative Pairs - The Powers of Two
Ginger Roger once said, of her partnership with Fred Astaire, that she did everything he did, “but backwards and in high heels.” In many ways this g…
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The Real Cost of Fracking
Across the country, fracking—the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing—is being touted as the nation’s answer to energy independence. En…
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The fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan
We often think of the 60’s as a time when the left was in the ascendancy. When great social movements, like the women's movement, the antiwar movemen…
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Have we reached the end of American community?
The world has changed. We can intimately and immediately know what's taking place in the far reaches of the world or across America. But we often do…
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Have we reached The End of Absence?
There once was a time before the internet, before the automobile, before air conditioning, and television and radio and even before the printing pres…
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Three Women at Home and at War
Those that have been through it, say that the experience of being in a combat zone is like no other. It is all consuming. In so many ways it elimina…
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Looking at Feguson through the eyes of the South in 1964
Fifty years ago this summer, Americans, both black and white, gave their last full measure of devotion in an effort to register African American vote…
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