May 2012
234 posts
April 2012
206 posts
“31 percent of the men who graduated Oxford in 1913 were killed.”
– On today’s Fresh Air, historian Adam Hochschild explains why WWI was different than other major conflicts: “It was different because it was the tradition in most of the major countries for upper-class young men to have military careers, and then it became those young captains and lieutenants.” (via...
WatchInformational video describing the spread of a meme: “The Ridiculously Photogenic Guy”
Fuck Yeah Permaculture: You Want to Learn... →
nicolefaires:
May 6th is International Permaculture Day, and I want to celebrate. Most people who want to learn Permaculture do so by earning a Permaculture Design Certificate. This piece of paper is really great, but also really expensive ($1500 to $3000). Guess what? You don’t need a PDC…
“In his 2012 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed that...”
– Diane Ravitch, “How, and How Not, to Improve the Schools” New York Review of Books
“For many the choice between Bolshevism and Fascism is rather like a choice...”
– Leon Trotsky on the New Germany - 22 March 1933 (Manchester Guardian)
