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Dolphins, Education, Justice
Study guides and more information on the destruction of dolphins and the impact of global mercury poisoning based on the award-winning movie, The Cove.
http://www.thecovemovie.com/educate.htm |
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Education
Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of eleven books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations.
http://www.alfiekohn.org/articles.htm |
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Society
Allan Nairn is an award-winning journalist.
http://www.allannairn.com/ |
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Education
The Alliance for Public Waldorf Education is a non-profit organization established to represent and connect public schools in North America that are working out of the impulse of Waldorf Education. The Alliance mission is to "promote and support high-quality public schools inspired by Waldorf education."
http://allianceforpublicwaldorfeducation.org/ |
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Education, High Schools
Analy High School is a public school located in Sebastopol, California, with approximately 1300 registered students in grades 9 to 12.
http://www.analy.org/ |
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http://www.animaltelepath.com/ |
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Woodworking
Details the risks of fine dust and presumes you have already read the Introduction and Dust Collection Basics sections. This Medical Risk section explains why fine airborne dust is doubly bad news for small shop woodworkers. The Wood Toxicity Table lists woods containing chemicals that can be poisonous, strong irritants, and sensitizers, which can cause a build up of allergic reactions and can increase the risk of cancer.
http://billpentz.com/woodworking/cyclone/medicalrisks.cfm |
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Society
Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, a cultural curator and curious mind at large, who also writes for Wired UK, The Atlantic and Design Observer, among others.
http://www.brainpickings.org |
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Education, Mathematics
The California Algebra I Success Initiative: A Comprehensive Plan to Help Schools Prepare All Students for Success in Algebra I in Eighth Grade.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/re/ht/algebrainitiative.asp |
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The Church Committee studied and verified illegal and subversive activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against the people of the United States. These activities included illegal spying, wiretapping, and breakins, planting false evidence, giving false testimony, and murder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee |
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Education, Quantum Physics, Society
New Physics and New Age?
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/views/qm-cr.htm |
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Education, Society
The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, bringing together its more than 18,000 members for over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.
http://www.youtube.com/commonwealthclub |
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Woodworking, Woodworking
Good information on using sustainably harvested wood and avoiding the overuse of endangered species.
http://www.art-robb.co.uk/cons.html |
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Education, High School
Credo High School is committed to providing high-quality education to a diverse student body. They seek to achieve their goals through a challenging curriculum, quality teachers, and an atmosphere that emphasizes communication and cooperation. Together, these elements create a safe and engaging learning environment in which all students can excel.
http://www.credohigh.org |
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Society
What YouTube could have been.
http://www.cultureunplugged.com |
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Education, Mathematics
Jack O'Connell's, Superintendent of California Public Schools, declaration in support of suspending Schwartzennegger's politically motivated manipulation of eighth grade algebra one standards.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr08/yr08rel150att.asp |
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Democracy, Society
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Link TV ch. 375); and on the internet. DN!’s podcast is one of the most popular on the web.
http://www.democracynow.org/ |
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Education, High School
Many parents are familiar with the holistic nature of Waldorf education, aware that the pedagogy intentionally addresses students’ heads, hearts and hands—or thinking, feeling and willing—in a developmentally appropriate way. There is a general understanding of this in the early grades, where parents appreciate our play-based kindergarten and the gentle introduction of academics. What parents are less apt to understand is that the Waldorf developmental approach continues throughout the rigorous academics of middle school and high school as well. Credo High School has published a thoughtful article about this topic.
http://www.credohigh.org/node/5 |
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Education, Mathematics
There’s a narrative line that runs through arithmetic, but many of us missed it in the haze of long division and common denominators. It’s the story of the quest for ever-more versatile numbers...
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/division-and-its-discontents/ |
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Woodworking
Custom guitar builder and fine instrument repair.
http://www.dolanguitars.com/index.htm |
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Internet
Check DNS records.
http://whois.domaintools.com |
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Drupal Documentation, Internet
A single Drupal web site could contain many types of content, such as informational pages, news items, polls, blog posts, real estate listings, etc. WE can also easily create new, custom content types. To learn more follow this link.
http://drupal.org/node/21947 |
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Drupal Documentation, Internet
Discusses general concepts in Drupal.
http://drupal.org/node/19828 |
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Education
http://www.cnpssd.org/horticulture/EasyToGrowNatives0504.pdf |
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Education, Teaching
From Chapter One: "When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia. This is especially true in colleges and universities. We are turning out, as if through a mould, a type of human being whose chief interest is to find security, to become somebody important, or to have a good time with as little thought as possible...
http://www.alternativeeducationindia.net/education_ch1.htm |
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Education, Society
Educators working to defend the civil liberties of oppressed minorities and persecuted individuals in the US.
http://www.educatorsforcivilliberties.org/ |
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Cheesemaking, Education
Great site on cheesemaking.
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Cheese/Cheese.html |
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Education
Lest there be any misunderstanding, the point here is not to call into question the importance of supporting and encouraging children, the need to love them and hug them and help them feel good about themselves. Praise, however, is a different story entirely. Here's why...
http://www.alfiekohn.org/parenting/gj.htm |
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Education, Mathematics, Teaching
CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.
http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/ |
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Society
The German American Internee Coalition (GAIC) was formed in 2005 by and for German American and Latin American citizens and legal residents who were interned by the United States during World War II. GAIC is dedicated to making public the little known United States World War II policies that led to internment, repatriation and exchange of civilians of German ethnicity, both in the United States and Latin America.
http://www.gaic.info/index.html |
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Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, addressed the conference on behalf of youth delegates. Just after her speech, she led a mic check from the stage — a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests. "It always seems impossible until it’s done," Appadurai said. "So, distinguished delegates and governments around the world, governments of the developed world: Deep [emissions] cuts now.
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/9/get_it_done_urging_climate_justice |
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Woodworking, Woodworking
The world’s forests are in crisis. Earth’s forest ecosystems have experienced an unprecedented rate of destruction and degradation, most of which has occurred in the last 200 years. This authoritative report list endangered woods to avoid as well as options for substitution.
http://www.rainforestrelief.org/documents/Guidelines.pdf |
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Guitar, Woodworking, Woodworking
Since 1972, the Guild of American Luthiers has been the foremost source of information for makers, repairers, and restorers of all kinds of string instruments. The guild is a non-profit educational membership organization whose purpose is to facilitate learning about the art, craft and science of lutherie.
http://www.luth.org/ |
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http://www.hanzell.com |
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Education
This site contains a comprehensive collection of math worksheets, printable multiplication tables, math charts, multiplication games, and other resources that are free and easy to use.
http://www.helpingwithmath.com/ |
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Education
What goes by the name of character education nowadays is, for the most part, a collection of exhortations and extrinsic inducements designed to make children work harder and do what they're told. Even when other values are also promoted -- caring or fairness, say -- the preferred method of instruction is tantamount to indoctrination. The point is to drill students in specific behaviors rather than to engage them in deep, critical reflection about certain ways of being.
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/hnttv.htm |
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Guitar, Woodworking, Woodworking
Data Sheet 45, from the Guild of American Luthiers, explains how to tune a guitar using the fifth and twelfth frets for full octave harmonics and avoiding the seventh fret harmonics, which are not quite perfect fifths.
http://www.luth.org/downloads/ds45.pdf |
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Humanism, Society
The Manifesto is a product of many minds. It was designed to represent a developing point of view, not a new creed. The individuals whose signatures appear would, had they been writing individual statements, have stated the propositions in differing terms. The importance of the document is that more than thirty people have come to general agreement on matters of final concern and that these people are undoubtedly representative of a large number who are forging a new philosophy out of the materials of the modern world.
http://www.americanhumanist.org/Who_We_Are/About_Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_I |
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Ethics, Society
It is forty years since Humanist Manifesto I (1933) appeared. Events since then make that earlier statement seem far too optimistic.
http://www.americanhumanist.org/who_we_are/about_humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_II |
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Ethics, Society
Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.
http://www.americanhumanist.org/who_we_are/about_humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III |
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Education, Mathematics
Online site for printing graph paper.
http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ |
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Climate Change, Global warming, Society
Global research on the evidence of global warming and its impact.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.htm |
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Education, Iroquois, Politics, Society
The Iroquois people with their Iroquois Confederation were among the most powerful native groups on the American continent at the time of European contact. They remained powerful through the American Revolution.
http://www.campton.sau48.k12.nh.us/iroqconf.htm |
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JFK Conspiracy, Justice, Society
John Judge is a researcher, activist and public speaker. His primary focus of research has been into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He is a co-founder of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA), and organizes COPA's annual conference in Dallas. With other members and a network of researchers, he continues to pursue outstanding questions relating to the assassinations of the Malcolm X and many others.
http://judgeforyourself.us |
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Society
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Education
The official website for Justin Medaris' class. Justin teaches at Stone Bridge School, in Napa, California.
http://jamedaris.weebly.com |
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Democracy, Society
Founded in 1949 by Lewis Hill, a pacifist, poet, and journalist, KPFA was the first community supported radio station in the USA. KPFA broadcasts on 94.1 FM and KPFB 89.3 FM, Berkeley, and KFCF 88.1 FM, Fresno, California. Their signal reaches one third of the state of California.
http://www.kpfa.org/ |
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Education, Mathematics
A mathematician laments the destruction of mathematics education.
http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf |
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Guitar, Woodworking, Woodworking
A mecca for guitar building supplies.
http://www.lmii.com/ |
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Education, Mathematics
Many good examples and clear descriptions of math concepts.
http://library.thinkquest.org/20991/home.html |
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Education, Mathematics
Much of this essay covers advanced topics, but you don't have to understand all the math to appreciate the essay. This is the way math should be taught.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/math_club/math_and_reality.pdf |
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Education, Society
Relational aggression is described as any behavior that is intended to harm someone by damaging or manipulating relationships with others (Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). Unlike other types of bullying, relational aggression is not as overt, or noticeable as physical aggression. However, the effects can be long lasting.
http://www.spsk12.net/departments/specialed/Relational%20Aggression.htm |
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Woodworking, Woodworking
Hundreds of woodworking related links.
http://www.mimf.com/link2.htm#wood |
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Internet
http://www.montaguelord.com/ |
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Global warming, Society
What is definitely not good news is the massive coral bleaching that is happening all up and down the coast near Madang. I’m not an expert on anything, but I think that I can safely say that the episode is caused by the rise of local water temperature.
http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2011/03/07/massive-coral-bleaching-at-plan... |
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After a long and courageous battle, Nancy died of cancer in 2010. This site is a small tribute to her life and art. Nancy's art captures the atmosphere, landscape, and people of Northern California. She has a knack for noticing the forgotten places. Her images convey the quiet and hidden California that only locals know well. More information about Nancy's life can be found here.
http://www.nancyhutchinsart.com |
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8, Earth Science, Education
Nuclear fission powers the movement of Earth's continents and crust, a consortium of physicists and other scientists is now reporting, confirming long-standing thinking on this topic. Using neutrino detectors in Japan and Italy—the Kamioka Liquid-Scintillator Antineutrino Detector (KamLAND) and the Borexino Detector—the scientists arrived at their conclusion by measuring the flow of the antithesis of these neutral particles as they emanate from our planet.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=nuclear-fission-confirmed-as-... |
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Occupy, Society
http://www.occupysantarosa.org/ |
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Society
Follow the money. OpenSecrets.org is a nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy. Whether you’re a voter, journalist, activist, student or interested citizen, use their free site to shine light on the U.S. government. Count cash and make change.
http://www.opensecrets.org/ |
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Education, Society
http://politicalcorrection.org |
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Imperialism, Society
The public website of those who want to expand the global US corporate empire using ever increasing military power. Bush may have faded into the brush, but the schemers who sent him on his tragic "crusade" are still waiting and scheming. This site proudly proclaims their macabre "principles" and goals. Can't say we weren't warned.
http://www.newamericancentury.org |
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Education, Free online books
Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on a personal computer or portable device.
http://www.gutenberg.org |
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Society
Behold! human beings living in a sort of underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all across the den; they have been here from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them; for the chains are arranged in such a manner as to prevent them from turning round their heads.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper2/CDFinal/Lippman/cover.html |
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Books, Education, Society
An extensive catalog of great books.
http://www.quakerbooks.org/pdf/catalog-09-quakerbooks.pdf |
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Woodworking
A list of woods listed by the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES).
http://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/restricted-and-endangered-wood-specie... |
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Woodworking
If your music is art, if your vision is unique, Rick Toone will shape the wood, bend the metal, solder the connections to give you the tool to let your beast run wild.
http://www.ricktoone.com/ |
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Education, Rudolf Steiner, Society
The Rudolf Steiner Archive offers summaries of his books, a catalogue of holdings, the text of over 6000 lectures.
http://www.rsarchive.org/ |
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Internet
Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html |
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Guitar, Woodworking, Woodworking
Major supplier of guitar building supplies.
http://www.stewmac.com/ |
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Woodworking
Great online fret calculator useful for many different kinds of instruments.
http://www.stewmac.com/fretcalc.html |
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Woodworking
http://www.stewmac.com/commonscalelength.html |
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Education
The Stone Bridge School is a community of families and teachers using Waldorf inspired teaching methods to nourish and educate our children. We recognize and benefit from the character, vitality, history, and diversity of the Napa Valley, and in turn, offer an alternative educational choice.
http://www.stonebridgeschool.org |
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Education
Summerfield Waldorf School and Farm is a private K-12 school located in a country setting near Sebastopol.
http://www.summerfieldwaldorf.org/ |
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Education
A local service created and staffed by Napa Valley educators offering tutoring, homework support, and test prep.
http://surfermath.com/ |
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Education, Mathematics
The publisher's site has additional online resources related to the textbook.
http://www.classzone.com/books/algebra_1_cs/index.cfm |
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Creativity, Education
The quality of the instructor didn’t have nearly the impact on student learning that getting the students actively involved in the learning process did. Just by moving the students from passive observer to active participant, you are lighting a fire in the brain—making more connections across association areas, increasing plasticity, and enhancing learning.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-educational-value-of-crea... |
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Education, Mathematics
Great site for producing worksheets.
http://themathworksheetsite.com/ |
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Education, Mathematics
In regard to every form of human activity it is necessary that the question should be asked from time to time, What is its purpose and ideal? In what way does it contribute to the beauty of human existence? As respects those pursuits which contribute only remotely, by providing the mechanism of life, it is well to be reminded that not the mere fact of living is to be desired, but the art of living in the contemplation of great things.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25447/25447-h/25447-h.htm#IV |
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Education, Mathematics
THERE IS A story about two friends, who were classmates in high school, talking about their jobs. One of them became a statistician and was working on population trends. He showed a reprint to his former classmate. The reprint started, as usual, with the Gaussian distribution and the statistician explained to his former classmate the meaning of the symbols for the actual population, for the average population, and so on. His classmate was a bit incredulous and was not quite sure whether the statistician was pulling his leg.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html |
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Empire and Its Discontents, Society
Tomdispatch.com is for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of our post-9/11 world and a clear sense of how our imperial globe actually works.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/ |
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Internet, Joomla
I wrote this tongue-in-cheek post late one night after a particularly long day of answering the same questions for the umpteenth time on the Joomla! Security Forums. It hit a nerve with the Joomla! community, even after several years remains relevant.
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=582826 |
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Air Polution, Society
The Political Economic Research Institute maintains a list of the top 100 air poluters. They focus on corporations, but it's probably worth noting that the worst poluter is more than likely the US military which is exempt of EPA regulation or oversight.
http://www.peri.umass.edu/toxic_index/ |
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Woodworking, Woodworking
A list of toxic woods.
http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/arthazards/wood2.html |
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Woodworking, Woodworking
Due to excessive corporate influence on the US government, it is often difficult to get reliable, government-sponsored information on the health hazards of wood. Most European governments are far ahead in both information and regulation. This overview is printed by the government of Great Britain.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/wis30.pdf |
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Society, Truth
Truthout works to broaden and diversify the political discussion by introducing independent voices and focusing on undercovered issues and unconventional thinking. Harnessing the ever-expanding power of the Internet, we work to spread reliable information, peaceful thought and progressive ideas throughout the world. We are devoted to the principles of equality, democracy, human rights, accountability and social justice. We believe ardently in the power of free speech, and understand that democratic journalism can make the world a better place for all of us.
http://www.truthout.org/ |
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Education, Peace, Society
Once upon a time in the US...
http://www.thepeacealliance.org/files/outreach_material/bill_111th.pdf |
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Education, Society, Supreme Court
Links to recent Supreme Court decisions. Given the partisan nature of recent court decisions, increased citizen oversight of our third branch of government is critical.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinions.aspx |
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Education
This Web site deals with criticism of Waldorf schools, Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy.
http://sites.google.com/site/waldorfwatch/ |
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Education
A popular site for Waldorf teacher job postings.
http://www.waldorfteachers.com |
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One of the most incisive critics of Anglo-American hegemony. As an activist historian he is best known for his book – George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), a masterpiece of research which is still a must read. He is a 9/11 Truth Scholar and activist; AB Princeton 1966, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; Fulbright Scholar at University of Turin, Italy; and MA in humanities from Skidmore College.
http://tarpley.net/ |
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Society
Wellstone Action is a national center for training and leadership development in the progressive movement. Founded in January 2003, Wellstone Action's mission is ignite leadership in people and power in communities to win change in the progressive tradition of Paul and Sheila Wellstone.
http://www.wellstone.org |
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WeStrive is a non-profit 501(C)3 dedicated to global networking and education for social contributing and conscious organizations, NGOs, initiatives and individuals. WeStrive offers a unique service to the world by meeting a wide range of needs for a demographic of individuals and initiatives interested in working from a spiritually striving philosophy.
http://www.westrive.org |
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Control, Education, Power, Society, Wealth
Who Rules America?, by G. William Domhoff, is the book upon which this website is based. It presents detailed original information on how power and politics operate in the United States. The first edition came out in 1967 and is ranked 12th on the list of 50 best sellers in sociology between 1950 and 1995. A second edition, Who Rules America Now?, arrived in 1983 and landed at #43 on the same list. Third and fourth editions followed in 1998 and 2002, and the fifth edition came out in 2006.
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/ |
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Education
Integrating holistic practices into the education system. The aim of this blog is to challenge the logic of BIG EDUCATION itself.
http://whole.org/ |
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Education, Mathematics
http://math.exeter.edu/rparris/winplot.html |
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Woodworking
Extensive information on many wood types.
http://www.wood-database.com/wood-identification/ |
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http://www.woodlandstarschool.org/ |
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Education
Woodland Star Educational Foundation was founded in 2000 to support Woodland Star Charter School. We are a group of parents working to financially support Woodland Star Charter School.
http://wsedfund.org/ |
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Education
Wordle is an online toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. Requires a web browser with Java™ plugin.
http://www.wordle.net |
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Education, Society, Sustainability
Worldwatch Institute delivers the insights and ideas that empower decision makers to create an environmentally sustainable society that meets human needs. Worldwatch focuses on the 21st-century challenges of climate change, resource degradation, population growth, and poverty by developing and disseminating solid data and innovative strategies for achieving a sustainable society.
http://www.worldwatch.org/ |
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Society
On the Zinn Education Project’s Facebook page, they asked, “What period in history—or theme in history—are you teaching this month?” The responses were fascinating.
http://zinnedproject.org/posts/13907 |
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Society
Issues of racism and direct confrontation between African American and European American people in the United States are usually considered too sensitive to be dealt with directly in the elementary school classroom. When African Americans and European Americans are involved in confrontation in children’s texts, the situation is routinely described as a problem between individuals that can be worked out on a personal basis. In the few cases where racism is addressed as a social problem, there has to be a happy ending.
http://zinnedproject.org/posts/596 |
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