20th Century High School Biology Textbooks Reviewed and Ranked
The website Textbook History is a good resource for old biology books. Ronald Ladouceur provides: A database of 82 American high school biology textbooks, from …
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What Education Needs
A good education should teach us how to think well – – logic and the rules of rational thought – – at the same time …
Snakes: Safer Than Some People, Safer Than Cars
“When you realize that only about two in over 100,000,000 persons die of snake bite in the United States, – that we have few venomous …
Resource For Old Textbooks
In the document Early American Textbooks, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, of the US Department of Education, says: Nothing gives us insight into …
In Biology, the Lowly Is the Mighty
“The variety and number of organisms in the soil, including algae, fungi, bacteria, and nematodes, are astonishingly high. These organisms play a vital role in …
The Soil Connects
“The soil provides us with a logical link between the physical factors of climate and geology and the biological world.“ —John R. Tester in Minnesota’s …
The True Is the Whole
We cannot have the parts or the individual without the whole they are in; we cannot have the whole without the parts or individuals that …
ReasonRx Podcast Episode 37 Matt and Megin Sharp: Let Your Kids Be KidStrong
Today we are joined by Matt and Megin Sharp of KidStrong to discuss KidStrong, its principles, its results, and what you can do for your …
New Year’s Resolution: Get Logic
Without an understanding of and some mastery of logic – – specifically, induction, conceptual integration, concept-formation, rules of definition, rules of classification – – our …
Newton’s Rules of Reasoning
We need to learn from them, in all things scientific. Quoted from: http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/newton-principia-rules-reasoning.pdf Newton’s Principia: Rules of Reasoning in Natural Philosophy Trans. A. Motte, 1729Rule IWe are …