One Way to Measure National Intelligence
Australia has not done particularly well in the PISA achievement tests that are administered worldwide to school pupils. Our kids do not seem to be the smartest on the block. How about our adults? We adults do not take tests with right and wrong...
Snitching
Snitching I recently read about medical workers in Russia who apparently were thrown out of high windows. They all had complained about something the government was doing or not doing. That news made me think of an expression introduced to me by my...
What’s in a name?
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare asks this immortal question: What’s in a name? Elon Musk just showed us that a lot can be in a name. How would you like to go through life named X Æ A-12? ...
Betrayal
Let’s do word association. If I say “betrayal,” what comes to your mind? Some people would say Judas. According to the Bible, he betrays Jesus for 30 silver coins. One of the my friends responded instead with the brothers of Joseph in the Bible. The brothers sold...
What to Take With You When You Flee from an Impending Disaster
In the 1960 movie “The Time Machine,” a scientist develops a way to travel in time. He goes way into the future and finds lovely, simple people who know nothing of technology. They do not read; they do not raise crops. Instead, they are fed by another group of humans...
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