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A reader recently emailed me about Sociological Images. What a great blog!
WHY: What with the kids these days being all media-saturated, a good image is often more effective for getting a point across than all the citations, repetition, or jumping up and down and saying "really I swear" can ever…
once, when the Net was young, I made the mistake of doing an image search for "Miranda",
in class.
It was a natural enough a mistake, a student had asked a question about the moons of Saturn and I recalled a recent NASA image which illustrated the point I wanted to make.
Try it.
the class got a…
From Earth to the Universe was a brilliant outreach project for the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, displaying online, and in real life, some of the best astronomical images around.
Now we have the Year of the Solar System coming up, who knew, and more and better images are needed!
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“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it’s the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” -David Allan Coe
As the population of cities continues to grow, real estate runs out fast. But one innovative solution may be the wave of the future: building down! …
I really cannot understand why the middle/working "class" of the USA is so anti-union. Don't they understand that it is ONLY through unionization that their rights as workers will be defended? Is it the incessant propaganda from the right that's done this or a failing of the unions themselves?
I like to assert that the exsistance of a large USAn middle class is the direct result of unionization in the previous century.
Perhaps there are some historians out there they will tell me if I am basically correct.
A large middle class. You say that like it is a good thing.
I think the large middle class evolved from a large lower class. Yeah this means there is a bunch more consumption than there would be if we were all mostly poor but it is what I grew up with so it must be right, right?
India: the new Wisconsin:Fired workers burn Indian executive to death
Virgil: I think the press has dropped the ball on possible headlines for that story.