12.17.2008

TED talks: Ken Robinson on creativity in schools

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. He challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity


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Sean Hannity: 2008 Misinformer of the Year

Great article by Media Matters naming Sean Hannity its 2008 Misinformer of the Year. And unlike Hannity's shows, the MM article if chock full of actual facts detailing the Irish Ape's deceit, falsehoods, prevarications and outright lies.

Congrats Sean!

Megyn Kelly schools Bill O'Reilly

Megyn Kelly, a screamer herself, grew increasingly frustrated as O'Reilly rejected her legal analysis, shouting, "You're wrong, Bill!"

"I've never met a non-lawyer who argues the law so confidently, albeit so wrongly," she said to O'Reilly.

TED talks: Philip ZImbardo on evil in the world

I discovered the TED site about a year ago, but only recently began digging into it. It features incredible lectures by a wide variety of intellectual, brilliant people. This one caught me. Philip Zimbardo is a psychologist perhaps best known for the Stanford Prison Experiment. He was recently an expert witness in the trial of a guard at Abu Ghraib prison.

Here, Zimbardo talks about his book, The Lucifer Effect and attempts to explain how evil, and heroism, are choices we make that are influenced by our surroundings.


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12.14.2008

He actually had time to bend down and get the other one....

This is classic.

Khrushchev made his point using only one.