Houston TX Archeology
Harris Country said, in a public release entitled “Cypress Creek Archeological Site:”The artifacts found at this site [near Meyer Park, along Cypress Creek] indicate that …
History
Education Then and Now
Watch ABC’s Tinley Park High School 1988 – America’s Kids: Why They Flunk, hosted by Barbara Walters.Things any better? Any worse? The same?I’d say they …
Against Racism
An excerpt from a great analysis and condemnation of racism:Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing …
Ancient Cranes, Timeless Reason
Human ingenuity is incredible. Love it. For thousands of years, people have made cranes that could lift enormous weights, way beyond what we could lift …
Totem Pole
Anyone know the meaning of this totem pole? No, it’s not in Alaska; it’s in Cypress, TX .
Happy Belated Birthday, Andrew Carnegie!
Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835. In “Carnegie, an Intellectual Capitalist,” Scott Holleran says: On his first job as a young teenager, Carnegie …
Writing and Debating: Fundamental Issues of Government and Politics
On WYNC.org, they say “starting March 10, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer will be moderating First Principles, a series of three debates on the moral underpinnings of …
On Francis Bacon
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper: “[Lord] Bacon was not only ignorant of mathematics, but depreciated its application …