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Tag Archives: Education
Election: Clustering
By the time this blog goes up, we will be exactly one week from the election. Most of us will be greatly relieved (almost independent of the results) when this presidential campaign is over. This was probably the most disturbing … Continue reading
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Election: Battle of the Sexes
Last week, I posited that: “Donald Trump attempted to downplay or disregard any fallout from his actions, concentrating instead on throwing red meat to keep at least his most dedicated supporters happy.” In this blog I had initially planned to … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th amendment, amazon, America, campaign, Christopher Andersen, Clinton, college, constitution, country, Donald, Donald Trump, early voting, Education, Election, Evita, female, FiveThirtyEight, Gender, grope, high school, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Howard Stern, macho, male, men, Nate Silver, nonvoter, nonwhite, North Carolina, party, Pat McRory, Policy, politician, politics, poll, polls, Power, president, presidential campaign, presidential election, projection, registration, result, rights, sex, sexes, sexual assault, study, support, supporter, Supreme Court, Trump, university, US, vote, voter, voter registration, voter turnout, Voting, white, Women
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Assessment – Fall 2016: Global Issues, Personal Perspectives and Climate Change
Shana Tova! The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) is here. For me, it’s a family celebration. According to tradition, we are entering into the year 5777, but nobody that I know of dwells too much on the origin of this … Continue reading
Posted in assessment, Climate Change, Election, immigration, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Al Gore, Anthropocene, assessment, Bilingual, bilingualism, campaign, Carbon, China, Chinese, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, Clinton, CO2 emissions, conspiracy, cosmology, Democrat, Democratization, DNNer, Donald, Donald Trump, Earth, Economics, Education, Election, electrical power, Electricity, emigrant, Emissions, Energy, energy mix, energy source, energy transition, energy use, Environment, extinct, extinction, Facebook, follow, follower, Fossil Fuels, Gary Johnson, GDP, Global Warming, Gore, greenhouse gas, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, hydrogen, immigrant, immigration, IPCC, metrics, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Nobel, Obama, Oscar, Physics, political, politician, politics, Power, Power Plants, president, red giant, Republican, Rosh Hashanah, Science, Social Media, star, sun, Sustainability, Technology, Trump, Twitter, UN, US, vote, voter, white dwarf
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Fear
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny” – Thomas Jefferson This election, as characterized by the media, is dominated by fear: The vast majority of Americans say they are … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, afraid, alcohol, Angus Deaton, Anne Case, candidate, change, choice, Clinton, Collective Suicide, demagogue, democracy, despair, desperate, desperation, Donald, Donald Trump, drugs, educated, Education, Election, emigrant, emigrants, fear, France, Genocide, Germany, Government, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Hitler, Holland, Holocaust, Hungary, immigrant, immigrants, Jew, Jewish, Jews, Kentucky, lack of education, liberty, massacre, mortality, mortality rate, Nazi, Nuclear, nuclear weapons, panic, Philippines, political, politician, politics, poor education, poorly educated, president, presidential campaign, presidential election, qualification, qualified, qualify, refugee, refugees, scare, scared, slaughter, stereotype, suicide, terror, Thomas Jefferson, Trump, US, vote, voter, white house, WWI, WWII
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Immigration: My Migration History
This is what remained of my family’s house in Warsaw after WWII. There is no longer any trace of it. I gave a brief summation of my early life when I wrote my first blog (April 22, 2012). I was … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, immigration
Tagged Adaptation, Afghanistan, Bergen-Belsen, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Change Fork, Climate Skeptics, concentration camp, conflict, CUNY, displace, displaced, displacement, Education, emigrant, emigrate, emigration, Environment, Genocide, German, Germany, ghetto, Global Warming, Hebrew, Hebrew University, Hillersleben, History, Holocaust, immigrant, immigration, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Agency, Jordan, Lebanon, Magdeburg, Mercy Corps, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Nazi, Of Bombs and Mice, Palestine, Physics, Poland, prisoner, professor, refugee, Sofia Ahsanuddin, Sustainability, Syria, Theresienstadt, Turkey, US, Warsaw, WWII, Yemen
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Immigration: IPAT
Noah Smith wrote an article in Bloomberg about how to convince the Japanese to have more kids: Japan would like to stabilize its rapidly aging population, and there are really only two ways to do that. It can let in … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged Abortion, Adaptation, adult, Affluence, Anthropocene, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, child, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Contraception, developed countries, Developing Countries, Economics, Economy, Education, elderly, emigrant, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, identity, immigrant, immigration, impact, India, indicator, individual, IPAT, IPCC, Japan, labor force, migration, Mitigation, one child, One-Child Policy, Population, Romania, Romney, social security, Sustainability, Technology, US, World Population
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Immigration: The Physics
Next week I will leave for my summer break. This time we are taking a complicated tour, starting in England a week after the Brexit referendum. Next we will spend a few days in Israel before continuing to Poland, Malta, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Berlusconi, BREXIT, Britain, candidate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Change Fork, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, conservation, Democratization, disorder, Donald Trump, Economics, Education, emigration, Emissions, Energy, England, Entropy, Environment, Europe, France, Global Population, Global Warming, Hungary, immigration, interrupt, Israel, Jacques Chirac, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Le Pen, Lionel Jospin, Malta, Marine Le Pen, Mexico, migration, Mitigation, National Front, Nazi, neo-Nazi, nominee, obstacle, order, Physics, politician, politics, Population, Power, president, refugee, Republican, safe haven, Science, Silvio Berlusconi, Slovakia, social entropy, society, sovereign, Sovereign State, State, Thermodynamics, Trump, US, Vacation, Victor Orban, wall, Water, World Population
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Educating for the Anthropocene: Learning Science in an Informal Environment
Political decisions in the Anthropocene require an understanding of the interactions between humans and the physical environment, as well as how to make them sustainable for future generations. These decisions cannot be limited to a small group of scientist advisors; … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Conference, Education, Sustainability
Tagged AAAS, Adaptation, advisor, Algebra, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, anti-science, belief, big bang, Bilingual, bilingualism, budget, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Conference, creation, decision, Democratization, DNNer, DOE, Economics, Education, Emissions, Energy, Environment, evolution, evolve, Fossil Fuels, Global Population, Global Warming, informal learning, intelligent creation, Karl Popper, knowledge, language, learn, learning, logarithm, Math, National Academies, opinion, perception, pew, pew research, poll, Popperian, public, recommendation, religion, School, Science, scientific method, scientist, setting, space, Sustainability, teach, Teaching, Technology, theory, understanding, university, US, vote, voter, World Population
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Educating for the Anthropocene: The Global Picture
Just as the Anthropocene is global, so its governance must be as well. Of course, this is easier said than done; countries are the only sovereign entities we have, meaning that any such global governance can only be attained through … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, common core, country, Democratization, Economics, Education, education index, EI, Emissions, Energy, England, Environment, EYS, France, Global Population, Global Warming, governance, Government, Hong Kong, immigration, index, India, Indonesia, international ranking, Israel, Japan, Macao, Malta, migration, Mitigation, MYS, Nigeria, OECD, Pakistan, PISA, Poland, Policy, poll, Population, rank, refugee, Russia, School, schooling, Science, security, Shanghai, Singapore, survey, Sustainability, Syria, Taipei, teacher, Teaching, Technology, TERCE, test, TIMSS, US, World Population
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