20 NOV 2018 by ideonexus
The Economic and Cultural Divide in America
For most of the last century, wages in poorer parts of America rose faster than wages in richer places, as inventions were put to work in the hinterlands. After Henry Ford invented the Model T, for example, workers on assembly lines all over the Midwest built it.
Now it’s just the opposite. Bright young people from all over America, typically with college degrees, are streaming into the talent hubs of America—where the sum of their capacities is far greater than they’d be separately.
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Debt Makes College a Risky Investment
Our findings, especially those that examine household decision-making, emphasize that while the return
to higher education is high, it is not a safe investment for many households. The deterrent effect of risk
survives the ability of agents to feasibly debt finance college with student loans. The main force here is that
debt makes higher education riskier for student borrowers, suggesting that alternatives that are mindful of
risk may be more effective. In turn, the focus of the policy experi...
1 27 SEP 2013 by ideonexus
回饋
The Chinese characters here are 回饋 (made out of black and white sesame seeds). You should recognize 回 if you have been following me on Facebook.回 means return. 饋 means ‘offering food to someone’ or ‘gift’. It is made out of 食 and 貴. 食 means ‘to eat’ or ‘food’. 貴 means something precious or expensive. 回 (return) 饋 (gift)= 回饋 (to give back)回饋 is normally used to express someone returning something good to the society. In this case, I am trying to ...Returning good to society.
09 JAN 2013 by ideonexus
Einstein's Eloquent Description of Humanism
Strange is our situation here upon earl Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men—above e all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life...
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23 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
If We Do Not Find an Alternative to Oil...
The power of man to do work—one man-power—is, in its purely physical sense, now an insignificant accomplishment, and could only again justify his existence if other sources of power failed. ... Curious persons in cloisteral seclusion are experimenting with new sources of energy, which, if ever harnessed, would make coal and oil as useless as oars and sails. If they fail in their quest, or are too late, so that coal and oil, everywhere sought for, are no longer found, and the only hope of ...Folksonomies: alternative energy oil
Folksonomies: alternative energy oil
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notes...we will see a return to the galley-slaves rowing ships when it runs out.
21 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
The Importance of Peer Review
Nobody knows more than a tiny fragment of science well enough to judge its validity and value at first hand. For the rest he has to rely on views accepted at second hand on the authority of a community of people accredited as scientists. But this accrediting depends in its turn on a complex organization. For each member of the community can judge at first hand only a small number of his fellow members, and yet eventually each is accredited by all. What happens is that each recognizes as scien...Folksonomies: science peer review
Folksonomies: science peer review
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notesEach of us can only understand a small portion of science, thus we need a collaboration of mind to determine truth.
09 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
The Candle as an Introduction to Natural Philosophy
I purpose, in return for the honour you do us by coming to see what are our proceedings here, to bring before you, in the course of these lectures, the Chemical History of a Candle. I have taken this subject on a former occasion; and were it left to my own will, I should prefer to repeat it almost every year—so abundant is the interest that attaches itself to the subject, so wonderful are the varieties of outlet which it offers into the various departments of philosophy. There is not a law ... 1 notes
notesFaraday considered it the best example to begin with.
05 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
A Poetic Relation to Nature
The principle thing I stand for is, I suppose, not a "return to nature," which is a phrase capable of a quite childish interpretation, but the return to a poetic relation to nature. Man is out of relation to his background…When man is in a poetic relation to his background, he achieves a religious sense of life, and this is the sense that makes him Man.Folksonomies: spiritual naturalism
Folksonomies: spiritual naturalism
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notesMan is out of relation to nature, when in relation, he achieves a spiritual sense of life.
13 DEC 2011 by ideonexus
Science in England
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich... 1 notes
notesEnglish has no term to describe scientists, so it borrows the word "Savant" to describe the noble cause.
31 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
Parenting is Receiving as Well as Giving
As a new parent, you may feel sometimes that all children do is take from you, but it is just a form of giving in disguise. Kids present you with an ear infection, but what they are really giving you is patience. They present you with a tantrum, but they are really giving you the honor of witnessing a developing personality. Before you know it, you’ve raised up another human being. You realize what a great privilege it is to be a steward of another life.
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notesWe give and give and give to our children, but in return we get to experience the wonder of watching a life develop.
