Category Archives: Tools and Ideas
With a little help from some free software, you can turn YouTube videos into audio files, to listen to later at your leisure.
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By Sheldon Greaves The quote above is a less well-known ancillary to Sun Tzu’s more famous quote: “Know your enemy as you know yourself, and in one hundred battles you will not be in peril. This post is about intellectual … Continue reading
A look at some tools from the Intelligence Community for gathering and evaluating information.
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For decades, giant academic publishers have held the intellectual output of America’s universities hostage. That may be changing.
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By Sheldon Greaves One of the legendary minds of the 20th century whose work will continue to enlighten the current century is R. Buckminster Fuller. “Bucky” as he preferred to be called was not only remarkable for the prodigious output … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves For a long time we’ve heard about how newspapers are disappearing; even back in the Seventies I heard speculation that computers would give us all our news. The election of Donald Trump saw a surge in subscriptions … Continue reading
By Sheldon Greaves It’s something we all heard in graduate school, those of us who were in some kind of humanities or liberal arts program: employers love liberal arts graduates. They are looking for people who can communicate, express themselves … Continue reading
by Sheldon Greaves There have been several excellent posts on the net recently about the problems facing higher education, and some of the reasons why things have deteriorated. Debra Leigh Scott’s excellent summary, “How The American University was Killed, in … Continue reading