Adam Scott Brown

"There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in."

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:08:05 -0600

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

- Leonard Cohen

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your..."

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:00:06 -0600

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

- Kahlil Gibran

"Science is not perfect. It’s often misused; it’s only a tool, but it’s the best tool we have...."

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:01:06 -0600

“Science is not perfect. It’s often misused; it’s only a tool, but it’s the best tool we have. Self-correcting, ever-changing, applicable to everything; with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.”

- Carl Sagan

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught..."

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:00:05 -0600

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money”

- Indian Proverb

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural..."

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:00:05 -0600

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

- Isaac Asimov

"Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In..."

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:00:06 -0600

“Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.”

- Arthur C Clarke

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:06:05 -0600

“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.”

- H. L. Mencken

All four Die-Hard movies summed up in one song. Quite an awesome...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:00:06 -0600

All four Die-Hard movies summed up in one song. Quite an awesome tribute, actually.

Welcome to the Age of Overparenting

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:30:05 -0600

Welcome to the Age of Overparenting:

Cautionary tale of modern parenting: “I’d bought into the self-esteem dogma — the idea that bathing our children in good feeling and positive reinforcement arms them with the confidence they need to lead better lives.”

Compilation of the best HD videos in the last few months that...

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:00:05 -0600

Compilation of the best HD videos in the last few months that were posted online. Really great editing. How many of them do you recognize? The playlist is at http://on.fb.me/vxKDJA

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the..."

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:01:05 -0600

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

- George Bernard Shaw

How Pay-Pal Squeezes Merchants with Unfair and Likely Illegal Business Practices

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:00:06 -0600

How Pay-Pal Squeezes Merchants with Unfair and Likely Illegal Business Practices:

PayPal takes advantage of its indispensability and its customers. Backed by finely crafted disclaimers, the “faster, safer” online transactions company seizes merchants’ funds and refuses to tell them why. On the basis of eBay’s 2010 Annual Report and statements from PayPal representatives, there is good reason to suspect that the company not only protects itself with that money, but also invests it for its own gain. And in the process, it may violate state laws.

God Wants You to Work Harder, and to Stop Complaining

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:00:05 -0600

God Wants You to Work Harder, and to Stop Complaining:

The goals of the “workplace spirituality” movement dovetail with a conservative Christian corporate ethos

The Overjustification Effect

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:00:06 -0600

The Overjustification Effect:

The Misconception: There is nothing better in the world than getting paid to do what you love.

The Truth: Getting paid for doing what you already enjoy will sometimes cause your love for the task to wane because you attribute your motivation as coming from the reward, not your internal feelings.

Our insistence on equating "poor" with "black" has undermined the success of anti-poverty programs.

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:00:06 -0600

Our insistence on equating "poor" with "black" has undermined the success of anti-poverty programs.:

Our national conversations about poverty — so entangled with race in unspoken ways — have rendered the white poor invisible and the black poor pathological, and undermined our attempts to gain majority support for anti-poverty programs. Led to believe that the poor are “other people’s problems,” a significant portion of Americans have come to view social welfare programs designed to assist the poor as attempts at wealth redistribution — not just across class lines but across the unspoken, coded racial lines.

An interesting take on reforming the U.S. tax code to automatically compensate for inequality between the median household income and the income of the highest earners

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:00:06 -0600

An interesting take on reforming the U.S. tax code to automatically compensate for inequality between the median household income and the income of the highest earners:

“Congress should reform our tax law to put the brakes on further inequality. Specifically, we propose an automatic extra tax on the income of the top 1 percent of earners — a tax that would limit the after-tax incomes of this club to 36 times the median household income.”

"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile that it happened."

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:00:05 -0600

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile that it happened.”

- Dr. Seuss

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Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:28:15 -0600

Best fails of 2011

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:00:05 -0600

Best fails of 2011

One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:00:05 -0600

One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom:

“Unfortunately, it wasn’t until I had a child dealing with gender variance (defined as “behavior or gender expression that does not conform to dominant gender norms of male and female”) in my classroom that I realized how important it is to teach about gender and break down gender stereotypes. Why did I wait so long? I should have taken a hint from that kindergarten teacher years ago. As I thought about how to approach the topic, I realized that the lessons I was developing weren’t just for Allie. She had sparked my thinking, but all the children in my class needed to learn to think critically about gender stereotypes and gender nonconformity.”