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I’ve worked in a system where school rankings were always in the background – in my world, MIT and Cal Tech were always at the…
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Life Off the Grid
When I returned to Trego, an old friend suggested that I look at building off-grid, with the comment “Lincoln Electric isn’t a co-op anymore, it’s just another power company.” In a way, he was correct – cooperatives rarely last beyond a couple generations before becoming bureaucracies run with more attention to the employees wants than the members. To me, that wasn’t as important as the fact that the infrastructure of Lincoln Electric is all around me. The presence of the infrastructure is of greater value. Still, my community can be divided between folks who are on the grid and those…
So, How Bad Are the Roads, Anyway?
With snow and ice season well and truly upon us, it seems like the first thought to mind when considering travel is the state of the roads. Good? Bad? Clear? Icy? An inquiring mind has a few options. Facebook: There are Facebook groups dedicated solely to road reports, and if the timing is right, one can find a post by someone who just traveled the same path. The Travel Info Map: has nice, color coded details for the entire state. Covers major highways. Web Cameras: These are useful for a look outdoors without actually having to look out doors. I…
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4 Ways to Explain the World
Long ago, when I studied research methods, a quarter of the page was dedicated to showing the four ways to explain the world around us: Philosophy, Religion, Ideology and Science. Philosophy includes logic – mostly the rules of inference that allow the practitioner to derive conclusions from true premises. The only challenge there is making…
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If You Only Play T-Ball
If you never bat against a good pitcher, it’s easy to think you’re a Yankee. We learn where we fit by the challenges we face. I recall Jay, who taught math at TSJC. Jay was a quarter century older than I, and evaluating where he was – commenting that he was second-rate. In the science building, at a rural junior college, we could have that sort of illusion. We weren’t the major league competitors in academia. Frankly, claiming second-rate status was too long a reach – the first-rate teams were at MIT and Cal Tech . . . and they…
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