- The passion for procedures to fix ailing arteries and hearts may be misguided | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2013 "Self-evidently effective" treatments which don't work. Just like many practices in education.
- High School Safety in Northern Virginia A parent derides the "security theatre" which turns a school into a fortress, and the implicit curriculum of fear of the world.
- 50 Years Ago: The World in 1963 - In Focus - The Atlantic; excellent selection showing what the US was like then (50 photos)
- Nigeness: '... chiefly it is intended for xenophobes and anglophobes' On "How to be an Alien" by George Mikes: an utter classic (1946).
- 3quarksdaily: The River of Myths by Hans Rosling Another stunning animated infographic from Rosling--with good news for once on child mortality rates 1963-2030.
- Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists: 'Embodied Cognition Is Not What You Think It Is' - the paper! "As soon as you allow things other than the brain to be central players in cognition, it changes the game entirely, and cognitive science will have to change to match." A modest aspiration!
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