Any morality play has its set-piece characters. The villain, the outraged public, the crusading representatives of order. Democracy in the UK is very tactile. Parliament is the voice and instrument of the people. Anyone, no matter how powerful, can be summoned to answer questions before the people. These performances can destroy careers and reputations but […]
Archive | July 19, 2011
A Sputnik baby remembers Challenger and looks to the future
Ninth in a series by Gray Smith I’m a Sputnik baby. Who knows – perhaps my birth in June of 1958 was the result of some Sputnik-induced frolic, since its launch would have been precisely nine months before. As a kid, I was a total space geek. I wrote many letters to NASA – scrawled […]
Nursery rhymes as industrialist propaganda
By Patrick Vecchio One of the goals of education is to leave seeds planted in students’ heads. Some seeds sprout right away and grow into trees that always bear fruit. Others sprout several years later, when conditions are right. Some never grow. And some grew so long ago, back in our first days of school […]
S&R Honors
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Frank Dilatush: Thank you Rathmone, you are a scholar and a mind r…
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Brian Angliss: To answer your question, no, the Cook et al 2013 r…
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