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Quick and dirty audio week in review. Need option to post longer audio messages!

Everybody Knows, Alex Lambert

As I’ve said, I think Alex Lambert is going to get on very well as a singer/performer.

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Beyond Our Universe

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A long time ago, in a universe much larger than our own, a giant star collapsed. Its implosion crammed so much mass and energy together that it created a wormhole to another universe. And inside this wormhole, our own universe was born.

“Does Our Universe Live Inside a Wormhole?” by Phil Berardelli, Science, 9 April 2010.

I must admit this tends towards the fantastical. And yet is strangely appealing. Is it any less difficult to imagine than our university beginning with a Big Bang? At the very least, it’s nice to see some outside-of-the-box thinking every once in a while.

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Principles / You can’t say A is made of B / or vice-versa / All mass is interaction.
Richard Feynman
Photo of the week (maybe even the year): The iMaxi iPad case. Fer realz!

Photo of the week (maybe even the year): The iMaxi iPad case. Fer realz!

Ethics in Photojournalism

The UN takes the photographer to the ‘hungriest place on earth’, Akobo, South Sudan. And surprise: you get the most horrific images possible of starving children, to be featured prominently on the Huffington Post, which reinforces the Western stereotype of ‘famine Africa’.
Famine Africa stereotype porn shows no letup, By William Easterly, 10 April 2010.

I share Easterly’s concern. There are three embedded issues here worth teasing out.

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Trends in the Use of School Choice: 1993 to 2007

As always, I like to post primary documentation on substantive issues. This report is on school choice. I’ll comment once I’ve had an opportunity to review.

How to: Google Reader, Magazine

Feedly
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I’m a little behind the times on this one. Just discovered Feedly, a service that organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page. Tech Crunch reported on this about six months ago.

I installed Feedly this morning as an extension to my Chrome browser. It automatically detected my Google Reader account and pulled in all of my content.

It looks incredible.

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We don’t learn from experience; we learn by reflecting on experience.
John Dewey

Teach Sex Ed, Get Arrested

“Starting in the fall, the new law requires schools that have sex education programs to tell students how to use condoms and other contraceptives. Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth said such education encourages sex among children, which is illegal, and could lead to charges against teachers.”

Juneau County DA warns districts on sex ed law, by Patrick Marley, Journal Sentinel, 06 April 2010.

So, we can picket a dead soldiers’ funeral with signs that read Thank God For Dead Soldiers and God Hates Fags, but we can’t teach children to use protection if and when they inevitably have sex. Interesting how that works.