Showing posts with label Critical Thinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Critical Thinking. Show all posts

Monday, April 22, 2013

SONDER April A to Z

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Sonder:   in French it means to probe or survey and as such, it could be the basis for the definition above which came from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a very interesting Tumblr in its own right.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

REASONABLE People, Hard to Find April A to Z


I guess reasonable people have always been missing in politics, as the quote above would seem to illustrate.  I guess moderation and reason of thinking have always been lacking in certain individuals and groups  This is only my opinion and I include it, among the small assembly of reasonable people out there in the world. This would include the originators and authorship of the art below about the unreasonable.

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

CANDLE in the Dark-April A-Z

Carl Sagan, Right Again!
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark -1995