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Ideas for Change in America

Rated Dec 08 2008 • 2 reviews • education, politics, science, obama • change.org

Go vote for this idea on Change.org so millions can push it on Obama. We don't need Palin science in the Obama years.

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Partnerships for Competition (?) & Education for Well-being

Rated Dec 08 2008 • 1 review • politics • ed4wb.org

From the site: In the press release titled, The Partnership Offers Recommendations to Help the Obama White House Forge a 21st Century Workforce, they suggest:

* Create a significant Global Competitiveness Research and Development Fund for U.S. education, and target a quarter of the funding to innovation in 21st century skills.

Why not create a significant Global Cooperative Research and Development Fund for U.S. education...? Really. Why not study cooperation with the same fervor that we put into learning how to become more competitive? We have war colleges and military institutes. We have all types of institutions and personnel designed to make us more competitive (sports, business schools, SAT coaches...). In comparison, there are very few organizations designed to help us become more cooperative while systematically studying the benefits of such cooperative behavior. When we start to look at the value of cooperation with scientific rigor, we start to see how powerful it actually is. (Nature does it all the time as a means of efficiency leading to survival.)

We can build better fences, become more competitive, design better weapons, take more of what's available...but in the end, we have to ask if this is actually good for any of us-including "the winners".

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Obama, China, global warming | Salon

Rated Dec 04 2008 • 1 review • environment, obama • salon.com

Talks with China over climate action will probably be the most difficult and most important negotiations in U.S. and world history.

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Frontline pioneer: Carl Hodges - CNN.com

Rated Nov 23 2008 • 1 review • environment, global warming, climate change, science • cnn.com

From the page: "Dr. Carl N. Hodges is turning the tide on sea-level rise and revolutionizing agriculture in the process.

As the founder and chairman of The Seawater Foundation, Dr. Hodges is convinced that by following nature's example, it is possible to prevent climate change induced sea-level rises. With a background in atmospheric physics and mathematics, Dr. Hodges has developed an integrated agricultural and aquacultural farm in Africa -- with a second one in Mexico -- which uses seawater to green the desert.

Rather than using seawater for desalination -- which requires great energy consumption -- Dr. Hodges proposes that seawater can be drawn inland to irrigate seawater-tolerant crops and plants, creating arable land, food and employment in areas once thought too dry to sustain life."

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Adventure Tales of The Constitution

Rated Nov 17 2008 • 1 review • history, constitution, usa • signalmedia.net

I'm a sucker for free History resources. This pdf / flippable online chapter on the history of the Constitution is a bit cheesy, but could have value for young readers. Beware: it's a "history as heroic myth" type book, with no warts on the flag.

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Campaign Boogeyman William Ayers Talks to GMA - ABC News

Rated Nov 17 2008 • 2 reviews • politics • go.com

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http://www.avoicecriesout.com/2008/11/14/ever-wonder-abou...

Rated Nov 14 2008 • 1 review • politics • avoicecriesout.com

Hilarious (but not irrelevant or too far from the truth) video of "who votes republican."

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Movie-A-Minute

Rated Nov 14 2008 • 470 reviews • movies • rinkworks.com

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