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What is the Purpose of Diversity?

#bloggerscircle I have recently joined the RSA Bloggers' Circle , which encourages me to pick a random blogpost from the circle to discu...
The Symbolism of the Empty Chair

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Global Injustice and Moral Challenge

@ RSAevents My son is studying economics at high school, so I took him to a talk by Amartya Sen at the RSA last week on Reducing Global Inj...
Essay Fraud 2

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Relationships built on self-interest

A number of bloggers have reproduced a photograph of Barack Obama at a blackboard, teaching something called Power Analysis, with a diagra...
Osmosis in Fish

My son has some biology coursework about osmosis in plants, so he can probably ignore all the interesting facts on Wikipedia about osmosis i...
CERN and Conspiracy Theories

If you so want to believe in conspiracy theories that you thought the CERN Large Hadron Collider was a sinister plot to blow up the universe...
Protective Lies

According to Seth Godin, lies protect the status quo . This is evidently a primary purpose of lying. (Seth offers ten good examples, of wh...
All Chewed Over By Machines

# AWOBMOLG Have been watching the first part of the latest Adam Curtis documentary "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace"...
Don't Waste A Crisis

... says Rahm Emanuel, just appointed chief-of-staff by President-elect Barack Obama. "You don't ever want a crisis to go to waste...

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