Category: BAD EDUCATION
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The Folly of “Teaching” Empathy
Empathy, that darling of the educational establishment, has become a ghoul that haunts our schoolhouses, devouring reason and objectivity with each passing day. The notion that we must “teach” our children this nebulous concept is as misguided as it is scientifically absurd. Let us be clear: empathy is not some magical elixir to be dispensed…
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On the Need to Turn Out High School Lawyers
For too long, public schools have been peddling pablum while neglecting the true essentials of a citizen’s education. It’s high time we revolutionize our curriculum to arm our youth with the weapons of knowledge they’ll need to navigate the treacherous waters of our legal system. Let us be clear: By the time a student dons…
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Education system as a conveyor belt to exploited labor and a Rube Goldberg machine of mediocrity (in the spirit of Justice Perplexity Scalia)
Let us not mince words about the TRAVESTY masquerading as our education system. It’s not a pipeline to prosperity; it’s a CONVEYOR BELT to exploited labor! We’ve created a Rube Goldberg machine of mediocrity that would make the Founders weep tears of bitter disappointment. Our schools should be bastions of intellectual rigor and economic opportunity.…
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Female husbands
A female husband is a person born as a woman, living as a man, who marries a woman. The term was known historically from the 17th Century and was popularised by Henry Fielding who titled his 1746 fictionalised account of the trial of Mary Hamilton The Female Husband. Prosecutions involving women living as men and marrying other women were reported in…
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Hugo Schwyzer aka ‘Porn Professor’
Hugo Benedict Schwyzer (born 1967) is an American author, speaker and former instructor of history and gender studies. Family background Hugo Schwyzer was born in Santa Barbara, California, to Hubert (1935–2006) and Alison Schwyzer, both of whom were professors of philosophy: Hubert taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Alison at Monterey Peninsula College. His younger brother, Philip, also pursued an…
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The Silent Sentinels aka the Sentinels of Liberty
The Silent Sentinels, also known as the Sentinels of Liberty, were a group of over 2,000 women in favor of women’s suffrage organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party, who protested in front of the White House during Woodrow Wilson‘s presidency starting on January 10, 1917. Nearly 500 were arrested, and 168 served jail time. They were the first group to picket the White House. Later, they…
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Anne Henrietta Martin (1875 – 1951) was the first woman to run for the United States Senate
Anne Henrietta Martin (September 30, 1875 – April 15, 1951) (pseudonym, Anne O’Hara; nickname, Little Governor Anne) was a suffragist, pacifist, and author from the state of Nevada. Her main achievement was taking charge of the state legislation that gave women of Nevada the right to vote. She was the first head of the department of history of the University of Nevada (1897–1901) And…
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (1880 – 1973) wanted to be remembered as the only woman who ever voted to give women the right to vote
Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women’s rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States in 1917. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916; she served one term until she was elected again in 1940. As of 2022, Rankin is still…
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Bethel School District v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986)
Bethel School District v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court upheld the suspension of a high school student who delivered a sexually suggestive speech at a school assembly. The case involved free speech in public schools. On April 26, 1983, student Matthew Fraser was suspended from Bethel…
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Goa stone
A Goa stone or Lapis de Goa was a man-made bezoar that was considered to have medicinal and talismanic properties. Goa stones were made in Goa, India and exported to apothecaries in Europe from the mid-16th to 18th century. Goa stones were manufactured by Jesuits in the late seventeenth century in Goa because naturally occurring bezoars were scarce. Their inventor was the Florentine lay brother Gaspar Antonio, and a Jesuit…
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Bezoar
A bezoar is a mass often found trapped in the gastrointestinal system, though it can occur in other locations. A pseudobezoar is an indigestible object introduced intentionally into the digestive system. There are several varieties of bezoar, some of which have inorganic constituents and others organic. The term has both modern (medical, scientific) and traditional usage. Types By content Food boluses (or boli; singular bolus) have the…
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A selection of apothecary jars.
Description A selection of apothecary jars. Four glass cylindrical drug jars with a parchment cover, labelled “Vitriol Alb.” (zinc sulphate), “OCUL CANCR” (Crab’s eyes – stones found in stomach of cray-fish as animal is about to change in its shell),”Sang Draco.V.” (Dragon’s blood), and “VITRIOL. COERUL.” (copper sulphate). Probably Spanish, 17th or 18th century. Wellcome…
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Zeuterin, it rhymes with neuterin
Zeuterin (zū-tur-in) is the trade name of an injectable product containing zinc gluconate and the amino acid arginine, which is used for sterilizing young male dogs without the removal of the testicles. The product is injected directly into the testicle, where the zinc gluconate destroys the sperm and causes inflammation, which leads to fibrosis and causes sterility. Sperm production continues for up to 60 days after product…
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“Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal”
The Ivy League nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn (which are members of the Ivy League) and Seven Sisters colleges (as well as Swarthmore), ostensibly to gauge the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population. The photos are simple black-and-white images of each individual standing upright from front, back and side perspectives. Harvard previously…
