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What should we be worried about?
Big picture thinkers on ‘real scenarios that keep scientists up at night’ Since we can’t stop worrying, can science teach us at least how to worry better? What should and shouldn’t we be worried about...
View ArticleGoing, going, going … gone! Arctic ‘death spiral’ continues. US Navy predicts...
New video from NOAA I stand by my previous statements that the Arctic summer sea ice cover is in a death spiral. It’s not going to recover. (Mark Serreze, NSIDC director, September 2010) The US Navy...
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‘Oil and Economic Growth: A Supply-Constrained View’
Steven Kopits, Managing Director, Douglas-Westwood (energy consulting) Center on Global Energy Policy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, February 11, 2014 Key trends oil...
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Global Studies as if Reality Mattered: Globalizing Education in the...
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. (John Muir 1911) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. (Philip K....
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Why Do Ukraine and Crimea Matter to Americans? A Panel Discussion with...
A Panel Discussion with Experts from WKU Thu, Apr 3, 7pm, Mass Media & Technology Hall (MMTH) 236 A map showing the disputed areas near Russia in red (Laris Karklis / The Washington Post)...
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David Foster Wallace on the meaning and value of education: Like fish in water?
This is a re-post of an earlier post (from May 10, 2013) for those of you who would like to continue the conversation we started this weekend at the H4 Freshmen Orientation Retreat on the value and...
View ArticleConfuse students to help them learn
Steve Kolowich, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug 14, 2014 Professors who present classroom material clearly and concisely may not be doing their students any favors. (…) Forcing them to work...
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WKU Honors College Scholars at IdeaFestival 2014 in Louisville: An Eclectic...
The motto and approach of IdeaFestival is very similar to Honors education understood as transdisciplinary and transformative global education that cultivates global competence. I am therefore very...
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IdeaFestival 2014 #1: Exoplanets & Exoplanetology – Five Billion Years of...
First presentation at IF by science journalist Lee Billings @leebillings on exoplanets and exoplanetology based on his 2013 book. Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke said that “Either we are alone...
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IdeaFestival 2014 #2: Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It...
Stephen Cave Session: Immortality Wednesday, October 1, 2014 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM (Kentucky Center) Dr Stephen Cave is a philosopher, writer and critic. He has worked both as an academic, studying and...
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The real value of a real education has almost nothing to do with knowledge,...
This is an opportunity to continue the conversation we started at H4. David Foster Wallace is widely considered one of the most creative writers of the last 20 years. He is the author of the novel...
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