Posted in Emotion, Reason, history on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Four versions of 450 years of British history: The Subjectivity of History
Laws are based on reason, but sometimes reason makes no sense: A Sudanese Family Reunites in Brooklyn
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Posted in Human Sciences, Media, Reason on Nov 24th, 2008 No Comments »
In a recent post I linked to a New York Times article discussing the value of SAT exams. This morning the newspaper published some letter responses from readers, which provide some food for thought.
Posted in Reason on Nov 21st, 2008 4 Comments »
Look at the statements below.
If the statement is definitely true (based on only the information provided) mark T.
If the statement is definitely false (based on only the information provided) mark F.
If there is not enough information, and you cannot decide, then mark U.
Incident in the store
The old man had just turned off the [...]
Posted in Reason, Science on Nov 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Today we discussed Rationalism as part of our exploration of the Way of Knowing of reason. It is late evening (I am almost headed to bed) and I am doing some reading for my MA dissertation in a book that explores research methods in applied linguistics and considers the “paradigm war” between quantitative and qualitative [...]
Posted in Emotion, Ethics, Language, Natural Sciences, Reason on Nov 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
When discussing inductive reasoning in the natural sciences in F-period today, I mentioned an experiment I had read about the other day on certain types of sea sponges that conduct light to their interior. Interestingly, the article even mentions that the experiment was based on previous observations.
I also happened to stumble across another article with [...]
Posted in Emotion, Reason on Oct 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
I have been meaning to post this article “Well, Excuuuuuse Meee! (Why Humans Are So Quick to Take Offense)” for a while – finally, here it is!
