Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts
Jeffrey Tucker: 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Libertarians
How to sustain a lasting passion for liberty. What does it mean to be an effective advocate of liberty? It means to love what you do and adopt sustainable patterns of thinking and living that contribute to making the world a freer place. Sustainability is key. Most of today’s attacks on freedom lovers include a dismissal that libertarianism is an ideology for idealistic (or maybe deluded) kids, not one for adults. ... MOREThorin Klosowski: Carl Sagan's Best Productivity Tricks
How to seek out the truth. Carl Sagan
is a well known astronomer, cosmologist, author, and most obviously,
science communicator and host of the show Cosmos. His views on science
and general living are simultaneously inspirational and galvanizing.
Let's take a look at just a few of his ideas that are useful for all of
us. Sagan was first and ... MOREThe Average College Freshman Reads At 7th Grade Level
by Maggie Lit. Dumb down accomplished. The average U.S. college freshman reads at a seventh grade level, according to an educational assessment report. “We are spending billions of dollars trying to send students to college and maintain them there when, on average, they read at about the grade 6 or 7 level, according to Renaissance ... MOREWall Street Journal: Climate Science Is Not Settled
by Steven E. Koonin. But government proceeds as though it is. The idea that "Climate science is settled" runs through today's popular and policy discussions. Unfortunately, that claim is misguided. It has not only distorted our public and policy debates on issues related to energy, greenhouse-gas emissions and the environment. But it also has ... MOREWalter E Williams: The Education Establishment's Success
Pigeons make for easy prey. Many view America's education as a failure, but in at least one important way, it's been a success — a success in dumbing down the nation so that we fall easy prey to charlatans, hustlers and quacks. You say, "Williams, that's insulting! Explain yourself." OK, let's start with a question or two. Are you for or against ... MOREThomas Sowell: Christmas Books - The Gift Of Clarity
Great winter reads. As Christmas approaches, the shopping mall can become a shopping maul. One of the ways of buying gifts for family and friends, without becoming part of a mob scene in the stores, is to shop on the Internet. However, for many kinds of gifts, you want to be able to see it directly, and perhaps handle it, before you part with your ... MOREIll-Informed Voters Pay Dividends To Democratic Party
by Larry Elder. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is worried. In a recent speech at Boise State, O'Connor said: "Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence, and it's right there in the name. ... The more I read and the more I listen, the more apparent ... MOREThomas Sowell: A Truly Great Phony
Obama's greatness finally recognized. Many years ago, I was a member of a committee that was recommending to whom grant money should be awarded. Since I knew one of the applicants, I asked if this meant that I should recuse myself from voting on his application. "No," the chairman said. "I know him too — and he is one of the ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Profiling
Understanding probability is useful. Police Capt. Louis Renault, played by Claude Rains in the 1942 movie "Casablanca," in the wake of the shooting of a Nazi officer, ordered his men to "round up the usual suspects." Was Renault engaging in some sort of profiling? He may have been, but what is profiling? Let's look at it. We can think of ... MOREThomas Sowell: Is Thinking Obsolete?
Indoctrination with unexamined assumptions. While it is not possible to answer all the e-mails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative. An e-mail from one young man simply asked for the sources of some facts about gun control that were mentioned in a recent column. It ... MOREHow Free Markets And Ingenuity Can Save The Planet
by Ronald Bailey. “We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost
over the next 50 years or so,”
warned the famed British television naturalist David
Attenborough in the January Radio Times. He added: “It’s
not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for
this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or
the ... MORE
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