Year: 2021
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From The Invented History of ‘The Factory Model of Education’: One of the most common ways to criticize our current system of education is to suggest that it’s based on a “factory model.” An alternative condemnation: “industrial era.” The implication is the same: schools are woefully outmoded. Podcast highlights: “In a standardized system, individuality does…
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A major social network company purchases a top global bank and becomes the first social credit provider. It bases mortgage rates, loan approvals, and credit access on deep data collected by its social platform. It takes into consideration the credit histories of close friends and family, locations visited (including frequency of visits to places like…
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Who are you behind closed doors? Are you the same person whenever you are outside and in the sight of everybody? Or are you just putting up a show in front of everyone else? Maybe it’s time to ask this question as you turn off the lights tonight. And hopefully, when you wake up the…
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It’s tricky to be confident about something you are not confident with. The world might say, “Fake it until you make it.” However, you can only fake it up to a point before you begin to fear people knowing the truth. And when they do, because they surely will (as the famous passage says that…
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Here’s a list of specific examples of how business could best reflect Christ: Ensuring the business as a whole has a positive impact on the world Excellence in products and services All staff are paid fairly All staff have an opportunity to learn and progress, even if that means moving to another company Compassion and…
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Is it possible? Yes. How? By quantum computing. From the article The Transformations Promised By The Quantum Internet, Unlike the traditional data encoding based on bits, the quantum world uses data encoded in quantum bits — or qubits — that are inherently different from the traditional coding of information into a sequence of 0’s and…
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To be honest with you, I don’t know how. If you do, please tell me by reaching out to me here. Actually, I never expected how difficult it could be until I had to do it when my niece kept asking what happened to our cats. Death took almost all of them (leaving us two…
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