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Former Indiana Governor Seeks Censorship of Howard Zinn - Validated Independent News - 44 views

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    project censored article on former Indiana gov Mitch Daniels now president of Purdue's effort to root out Zinn's work from being used by teachers.  article notes contrast of Ziinn's treatment of US imperialism compared with a standard history text used in Indiana that devotes all of two paragraphs to the US war with Mexico that ended with Mexico "ceding" i(n the euphemistic curricular language) almost 1/2 it's territory to the US--while not mentioning any dissent about this war.  In contrast, Zinn's people's history devotes a whole chapter to the conflict. 
Sam Boswell

Technology Imperialism, the Californian Ideology, and the Future of Higher Education - 35 views

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    Challenging the dominant ideology as told through narratives: Tech = Connectivity = Freedom.
Jac Londe

The Electron is round. Incredibly round | ZME Science - 59 views

  • The experiments, which spanned more than a decade, suggest that the electron differs from being round by less than 0.000000000000000000000000001 cm. Just so you can get an estimate, if the electron were as big as the solar system, it would still be spherical to within the width of a human hair.
  • a team from the Imperial College London concluded that the electron is actually incredibly round, thus making the most accurate estimate of its shape.
Judy Robison

Watch colonialism collapse before your eyes in this mesmerizing GIF - Vox - 92 views

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    Watch European colonialism rise and fall in seconds in this GIF. Vox has also written an accompanying text:
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