What is the soil organic carbon and why is it important? — EKONOWSYS — MARY CALVO

Nowadays, we often hear about carbon. Most of the comments and news talk about carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is a greenhouse gas that increases the global temperature and creates climate change. Well, while this may be partly true, the big picture is not like that. Carbon is essential to life, and we can […] […]

What is the soil organic carbon and why is it important? — EKONOWSYS — MARY CALVO

Oklahoma: Ousted Teacher Asks: “Which Side Are You On?”

Diane Ravitch's blog

Summer Boismier took a stand against censorship of books in her classroom. A teacher in the high school of Norman, she had been ordered to remove from her classroom any books that might violate state law HB 775. That law declares that if any educator makes part of their curriculum teachings that “an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex” or that “an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously,” they could be suspended or have their license removed. She said teachers were instructed to remove such books or cover them with butcher paper. She did cover them up and posted a warning not to read banned books but posted the QR code of the Brooklyn Public…

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What IS ‘Intelligence’?

Filosofa's Word

This morning as I was doing my usual scouring of the news in multiple sources, I came across a story titled, “The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting.”  Of course, I could tell from the accompanying picture that the story was about the search for life forms on other planets and in other galaxies, but for some reason that headline struck me as humorous.  My first thought was that we should be searching for intelligent life here on Planet Earth rather than spending trillions of dollars to look farther afield, and my second thought was … how will we know if we’ve found intelligent life – how do we actually define ‘intelligent’ … or do we?

Some would equate intelligence with knowledge.  But in my view, simply gaining knowledge, storing facts and figures, does not define intelligence.  It’s more a matter of what…

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What IS ‘Intelligence’? — Filosofa’s Word

This morning as I was doing my usual scouring of the news in multiple sources, I came across a story titled, “The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting.”  Of course, I could tell from the accompanying picture that the story was about the search for life forms on other […]

What IS ‘Intelligence’? — Filosofa’s Word

अनुचित / Unfair — Kaushal Kishore

मैं नहीं जानताऔर जानना भी नहीं चाहताकिसने और क्यों लिखाकि युद्ध और प्रेम मेंसब कुछ जायज होता है,अनुचित अनुचित ही होता हैचाहे वह युद्ध हो या प्रेमया कहीं और… 🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️ I don’t know anddon’t even want to knowwho and why wrotethat everything is fairin war and love,unfair is unfairwhether it is war or loveor anywhere […]

अनुचित / Unfair — Kaushal Kishore