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Children Cannot Be Taught, But They Can Learn 27 Jan 2013 | 10:49 pm
Children are not taught, they learn. How well and how much they will learn depends upon the skills that they master, long before they are aware that they are learning. Whether or not they have the cha...
Habits are not Like Hobbits: They Don't Just Disappear 21 Jan 2013 | 12:00 am
Taken from an article published on Al Fin, the Next Level Even without magic rings, hobbits tend to disappear when one closes a book or turns off the DVD player. They may persist for a short time in ...
Peak Oil Doom In Context 20 Jan 2013 | 01:30 pm
Previously published on Al Fin Energy ...Peak Oil catastrophism is largely a manifestation of our primary cultural myth: that all things end with suffering, death, and then resurrection. Belief in ap...
Dooms that Failed: Resource Scarcity; Overpopulation; Climate Catastrophe 19 Jan 2013 | 10:33 pm
Doom and utter devastation tend to get one's attention. The human mind is programmed to home in on signs and portents of doom or catastrophe. Clever con men have taken advantage of this tendency for m...
The Life Span of Empires: 250 Years? 17 Jan 2013 | 08:43 pm
Previously published on abu al-fin Sir John Glubb was a British author and lecturer, who was decorated for his service in the Royal Engineers in WWI, and was commander of the Jordan Arab Legion from ...
A Place Where It Is Better to be Born 17 Jan 2013 | 04:03 am
In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm “Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm” __Bob Dylan, Shelter from the Storm If you came into the world today an...
Everything You Think You Know, Just Ain't So 15 Jan 2013 | 09:42 pm
Humans cannot perceive reality directly. Instead, the outside world is filtered through our various senses. Significant filtering and pre-processing occur in the sensory organs themselves. Inside the ...
Oil Prices: Is the Fox Guarding the Hen House? 15 Jan 2013 | 08:33 am
Prices are not determined by the fundamentals in a manipulated market they are determined by oil being an “Asset Class” which is code word or a euphemism for giant Casino in New York instead of Vegas....
Greenland Is Still Too Cold for the Vikings 13 Jan 2013 | 12:37 am
Around the time the Vikings disappear from the island’s archaeological record, temperature appears to have plunged. _Source The Vikings had things very nice in Greenland for a few hundred years, durin...
Who Will Become the 51st US State? 12 Jan 2013 | 01:01 pm
The USA has been stuck on just 50 states for over half a century now. There has been a good deal of talk about adding Puerto Rico to the US as the 51st state, but both the Puerto Rican population and ...
