- The Universe Is Your Sandbox With Universe Sandbox | GeekMom • by Jules
- I’ve seen some pretty wonderful interactive programs that allow you and your family to explore the vast regions of the universe, but nothing nearly as enthralling as Universe Sandbox. In a nutshell, it is an interactive program that allows you to explore our solar system, galaxies and the universe. It also allows you to manipulate certain variables and witness how those changes would effect the universe.
- A Guide to Google Privacy and Information Control | Lifehacker • by Melanie Pinola
- Here’s the lowdown on Google ‘s privacy controls, including a few of the more buried settings you’ll want to know about.
- Voting Methods | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy • by Eric Pacuit
- Many interesting issues arise when we carefully examine our group decision-making processes. …
- This article introduces and critically examines a number of different voting methods. The goal is not to provide a general overview of social choice theory or even a comprehensive account of voting theory. Rather, my objective is to highlight and discuss key results and issues that underlie phenomena that we observe when decision makers come together to make a collective decision.
- 3 August 1960 – Niger Achieves Independence from France
- Part of the once powerful Islamic Sokoto Empire the region was annexed by France at the end of the nineteenth century. It was created an autonomous republic within a greater French community in 1958, and independence followed in 1960.
- 3 August 1958 – The Treason Trial begins
- In response to the adoption of the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People, South Africa’s Apartheid government had 156 people arrested – almost the entire executive of the Congress Alliance. They were charged with “high treason and a countrywide conspiracy to use violence to overthrow the present government and replace it with a communist state.” The punishment for high treason was death. Find out more about the Treason Trial.
- What Einstein, Twain, and Forty Eight Other Creative People Had to Say About Schooling | Psychology Today
- Throughout history, from Plato on, creative people have spoken out against the stultifying effects of compulsory education. Here are quotations from fifty such people…
- Al Jazeera: The Top 1% in America | Open Culture • by Dan Colman
- Al Jazeera forced many Westerns viewers to take their reporting seriously during the Egyptian uprising this spring, and now the Qatar-based news network has released a timely reportage (Aug. 2) on the fault lines in America — on the gap between rich and poor that only grew wider this week.
- The Last Surviving Witness of the Lincoln Assassination | Open Culture • by Dan Colman
- Let’s rewind the videotape to 1956, to Samuel James Seymour’s appearance on the CBS television show, “I’ve Got a Secret.” At 96 years of age, Seymour was the last surviving person present at Ford’s Theater the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth (April 14, 1865).
- Only five years old at the time, Mr. Seymour traveled with his father to Washington D.C. on a business trip…
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