“You may get a sense of what is meant by context-free information by asking yourself the following question: How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to alter your plans for the day, or to take some action you would not otherwise […]
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Book Excerpt Of The Week- Part 1: “Amusing Ourselves To Death” By: Neil Postman
“To Understand the role that the printed word played in providing an earlier America with its assumptions about intelligence, truth and the nature of discourse, one must keep in view that the act of reading in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had an entirely different quality to it than the act of reading does today. […]
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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“Our people have to be made to see that anytime you take your dollar out of your community and spend it in a community where you don’t live, the community where you live will get poorer and poorer and the community where you spend will get richer and richer. Then you wonder why where you […]
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According to some research, soda can age you in a manner similar to cigarettes. It is said that a daily intake of 8 ounces of soda can age you by 1.9 years; daily intake of 20 ounces can age a person by 4.6 years. Americans are becoming aware of the dangers of soda consumption. Soda […]
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On November 28, 1899, Archia Ross received a patent for his invention of the pants suspender. At the time of his invention the suspenders were also known as “trouser supports and stretchers.” Tweet
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“For no one respects or bothers about those who do not fight for their rights.” -Einstein Tweet
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An insightful documentary about food waste in America. Tweet
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Joseph Hunger Dickenson invented the record player arm. Tweet
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“You can’t quit or stop or back up or blink. You have to move forward. You have to press the limits. You have to trust your gut. You have to pursue the possibility of success through failure after failure, if necessary. You’ve just got to believe. And you got to accept that being right will […]
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