We are all Exhausted

 

America’s Top Science Journal Has Had It With Trump

The editor of Science has abandoned staid academic-speak to take on falsehoods in the White House—decorum be damned.

America’s Top Science Journal Has Had It With Trump 

Irony is so Ironic

 "Jared Kushner said on Tuesday that the president was surrounded by "overconfident idiots" from his 2016 campaign and that it "took him a while to figure out" which were loyal to him and his agenda."

Jared Kushner says Trump was surrounded by 'overconfident idiots' from his 2016 campaign and it 'took him a while to figure out' who was loyal to him  

A Little Too Close To Home Part II

"So you must match time's swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow" 

--- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A Little Too Close To Home

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd 

- Epicurus

Facebook Is NOT Good For You And Is NOT Good For Democracy

 Take a look at Yaël Eisenstat's TED talk. 

How Facebook Profits From Polarization

After you watch it consider how much time you spend on Facebook and what effect it has on you.

Watch Before Voting

 

History Lesson

 

The Lessons of the Great Beaufort Skedaddle 

 

"It is estimated 8-10,000 slaves were left behind in the Sea Islands when the white population fled. They were soon joined by thousands of others who escaped to the region once they realized that Northern occupation meant freedom. They all needed food and shelter, and since the Emancipation Proclamation had yet to happen, their legal status, beyond being “contraband,” was unclear. The Army asked for help and received it in the form of the Port Royal Experiment. Financed and organized by Northern abolitionist charities, the Experiment worked as a test case to create self-sufficiency among the former slaves. Its success points to what Reconstruction might have been if less corruption and more competence had been at its helm. Northern missionaries and teachers flocked to the Sea Islands to create schools and aid societies. Former slaves were allowed to farm the confiscated plantations and were paid $1 per 400 lbs of cotton they were able to harvest.  The Penn School on St. Helena Island was one of the earliest schools established for freed slaves and can be visited as part of the Penn Center today."