It's important to learn math not because you may need to do long division as an adult, but because it promotes rigorous thinking. IMO, history and causal inference are among the most important subjects a young person can study — math being central to the second.
A significant problem in public discourse right now is people's inability to critically evaluate causal claims (e.g., vaccines cause autism, deporting immigrants will solve the housing crisis, etc.). The less able people are to critically evaluate causal claims, the worse our democracy functions because people can be preyed upon for votes. You should promote anything that improves rigorous thinking, even if it doesn't have market value. In fact, we should stop thinking of education only in the context of what improves the economy.
IMO, this is distinct from knowing your own address (which Huang can avoid because he's wealthy). Memorizing facts like this may or may not be important, but it's distinct from rigorous thinking.
We’ve been covering settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank for years.
But yesterday, we found ourselves on the menu.
A group of masked settlers beat our team and pummelled the 51 year old woman we were interviewing unconscious.
We’re all ok now - and Aida is out of the hospital - but this is just one incident among an unprecedented surge in settler violence across the West Bank.
Here’s out story on yesterday’s attack on Sunday Today on @NBCNews.
#Israel #WestBank @TODAYshow
اونهایی که شغلشون «رساندن صدای مردم ایران به غربه»: آیا وقتی مشخصا می شه فشار گذاشت رو غرب که مردم رو اینجوری داغ نکنن، اصلا صدایی ازشون در می اد؟ یا فقط موقع کالا کردن رنج مردم برای خود نمایی گوشمون رو کر می کنن.
این maximum support for Iranian people شازده این بود؟
چه دنیای حال بهم زنی.
اینور دنیا همچین شوی رنگ و وارنگی با کانسپت love 🤡 و اجرای بچهها راه انداختن، همزمان اونور دنیا بچه و بیمارستان و مدرسه بمبارون میکنن…
Lewis: I found the PM's comments about the Iran war being worth it to be really disturbing, shocking as a Canadian. I want to know who the PM thinks it was worth it for. For thousands of civilians who were killed, for the 168 schoolgirls who were killed on the very first night ... Who was it worth it for?
استاد دانشگاه هاروارد در مصاحبه با دویچهوله:
جنگ با ایران بیش از هر چیز دیگری، اول از همه، محدودیتهای قدرت نظامی آمریکا را آشکار میکند/این یک جنگ غیرقانونی است و ایالات متحده اکنون مثل یک دولت یاغی رفتار میکند/ما عمداً رهبری غیرنظامی ایران را ترور کردهایم، و از این طریق یکی از هنجارهای دیرینه را از بین بردهایم/ما با ایرانی مواجه خواهیم شد که اکنون انگیزه بیشتری برای دنبال کردن سلاح هستهای، اگر نه فورا، دستکم در مقطعی در آینده، خواهد داشت/ما از این ماجرا با یک پیروزی مشخص بیرون نخواهیم آمد...
من پروین فهیمی هستم، مادری از این خاک، مادری صلحخواه، مادری که فرزندش، سهراب اعرابی را در جنبش سبز، همین حاکمیت از او گرفت. این نامه را برای شما آقایان ترامپ و نتانیاهو و برای آنان که به نام صلح جایزه گرفتند و در این هنگامهی بمباران و تجاوز به ایران سکوت کردهاند مینویسم./
کلمه “مبارزهی مدنی” رو مسخره میکنن!
هرچی، هررررررچی طی این سالها بدست اومده از مبارزهی مدنیه!
خیلی چیزا هم بهدست اومده، ایران الان کجا شبیه ۴۰ سال پیشه؟
شما فقط کار مارو سختتر کردین.
مسخره نکنین، بشینین یهذره فکر کنین.
The U.S. must immediately make clear to Israel that the ceasefire agreement is not and cannot be functional without a ceasefire in Lebanon. The American people want this war to end and bombing downtown Beirut is not a path to peace.
It is very easy to become accustomed to Trump’s ravings, and laugh them off. That’s a dangerous thing to do.
When Trump states: “A whole civilization will die tonight,” he is threatening to commit genocide.
We can’t allow that to happen. Congress must end this war NOW.
Trump woke up this morning threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people.
We should be back in DC RIGHT NOW to stop this deranged madman from blowing up the world. Does this seem urgent to you, @SpeakerJohnson? How can you sleep at night??
I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.