Escaping Education’s Death Valley

Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.

 

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Rand Paul Tax Reform Apple hearing

Rand Paul erupts during a Congress hearing to address and defend Apple’s billions in foreign-stored cash. Rand Paul offends John McCain and Carl Levin Chairman of the Senate Committee

This is a big deal and has to be fixed and worked out. Way to express yourself Rand Paul.

Watch the full congressional hearing here. http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/offshore-profit-shifting-and-the-us-tax-code_-part-2

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This is what winning looks like

This is what winning looks like.

The mini video series produced by Vice.com will open your eyes to what progress really hasn’t been made in Afghanistan.  All the innocent lives lost. The consumption and waste. The CIA still dropping off bags of money to Hamid Karzai to re-build what? To get the country straightened out? It’s not happening. Please watch this and pass it along.

Do we mean to fuel the heroin trade?

Here is part 2 -  http://youtu.be/S77dCAZzcLM

This is part 3  – http://youtu.be/C8rRqRoCUsg

I remember when I was a really little kid. I maybe saw wars and people fighting on TV. I knew then, war was one activity I will never participate in.

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The Fairphone, World's First Ethically Sourced Smartphone, Opens Pre-Sales To General Public

Reblogged from TechCrunch:

Netherlands-based hardware initiative Fairphone began around three years ago as a project designed to highlight the use of conflict minerals in the construction of consumer electronics, and then evolved three years later into a full-fledged hardware startup, with the aim of turning its knowledge into action with the building of an ethically sourced, built and distributed smartphone. Now, it's opening up pre-orders to the general public, beginning with customers in Europe.

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I love that I stumbled up this article. I watched a documentary on coltan. It's so sad and people will never know the lives sacrificed over coltan or what it is for that matter.