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Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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"Our very way of life is under siege," said Mortensen, whose understanding of the Constitution derives not from a close reading of the document but from talk-show pundits, books by television personalities, and the limitless expanse of his own colorful imagination. "It's time for true Americans to stand up and protect the values that make us who we are."
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"Right there in the preamble, the authors make their priorities clear: 'one nation under God,'" said Mortensen, attributing to the Constitution a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which itself did not include any reference to a deity until 1954. "Well, there's a reason they put that right at the top."
Patrice Higonnet: On Harvard's Financial Crisis
Patrice Higonnet excorates Dean Michael Smith (FAS, Harvard), for the University's decision to lay off several hundred employees without bothering to explain or justify that decision to the faculty. "Your report should have two additional paragraphs. I urge you to add them as a footnote to your pages. The first would provide us with a precise figure: it would be a statement regarding the exact amount of money that we secured by inflicting woeful pain on the University's staff, together with your justification of that decision. Had we kept them on, how far now would we be below our current 26 billion mark? A calculation made by exact tenth of one percentage point would be welcome."
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Your report should have two additional paragraphs. I urge you to add them as a footnote to your pages. The first would provide us with a precise figure: it would be a statement regarding the exact amount of money that we secured by inflicting woeful pain on the University's staff, together with your justification of that decision. Had we kept them on, how far now would we be below our current 26 billion mark? A calculation made by exact tenth of one percentage point would be welcome.
Archival Sound Recordings from the British Library
An archive of over twenty thousand recorded sounds -- music, nature, historical events, and so forth. Some limitations on access outside the UK. Seen on Dave R.'s Facebook page.
Professor X, "In the Basement of the Ivory Tower," The Atlantic Online (June 2009)
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Neuroimaging suggests that truthfulness requires no act of will for honest people
From the press release: "A new study of the cognitive processes involved with honesty suggests that truthfulness depends more on absence of temptation than active resistance to temptation. Using neuroimaging, psychologists looked at the brain activity of people given the chance to gain money dishonestly by lying and found that honest people showed no additional neural activity when telling the truth, implying that extra cognitive processes were not necessary to choose honesty. However, those individuals who behaved dishonestly, even when telling the truth, showed additional activity in brain regions that involve control and attention."
23 Ways to Beat the Heat
Little tricks, like making a jury-rigged swamp cooler by hanging a piece of wet fabric in a window that gets some circulation.
The Withering Watchdog - Exposé: America's Investigative Reports
PBS's "Exposé" series covers the disintegration of serious, investigative journalism in the U.S. Laura Frank, the author, points out that corporate organizations were cutting investigative reporting staff well before the Internet started cutting into revenues. In fact, cuts were well underway during a period when media outlets' profits were at record highs.
Historic Government Publications from World War II (SMU Digital Collections)
Description: "The Historic Government Publications from World War II contains 343 Informational pamphlets, government reports, instructions, regulations, declarations, speeches, and propaganda materials distributed by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) during the Second World War." Includes, for example, "Indians in the War" and "Pocket Guide to Iran."
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The Historic Government Publications from World War II contains 343 Informational pamphlets, government reports, instructions, regulations, declarations, speeches, and propaganda materials distributed by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) during the Second World War.
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