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Friday, 25 November 2016

At present, proponents of school choice have the upper hand because they are backed by some of the nation’s richest people, whose campaign donations give them an outsize voice in shaping public policy. The issue that the American public must resolve in local and state as well as national elections is whether voters will preserve and protect the public school system, or allow it to be raided and controlled by the one percent and financial elites. By Diane Ravitch.
Read more: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/08/when-public-goes-private-as-trump-wants-what-happens/?source=Snapzu

Thursday, 24 November 2016

The Science Fiction That Came Before Science

Literature imagined technologically marvelous cities, space travel, and aliens before the scientific revolution even hit its stride. By Edward Simon.
Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-science-fiction-that-came-before-science/508067/?utm_source=feed?source=Snapzu

Talk Talk - It´s My Life 1984

The fight of your life

Boxers know they risk injury in the ring. But there’s a more insidious danger they don’t often talk about: the long-term brain damage that repeated blows to the head can cause. Lyra McKee meets the families who are breaking the silence.
Read more: https://mosaicscience.com/story/fight-boxing-punch-brain-damage-CTE-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy-NFL-head-injury?source=Snapzu

The Thanksgiving Song

The squiggle on the map that shaped the modern world

Christopher Simon Sykes aims to humanise his much reviled grandfather who, in 1916, with François Georges-Picot, secretly parcelled out the Middle East — with the bitterest consequences.
Read more: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/11/the-squiggle-on-the-map-that-shaped-the-modern-world/?source=Snapzu