by jstewardfree | Aug 12, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Michael Bastasch | In 2008, Dr. Ivar Giaever joined over 70 Nobel Science Laureates in endorsing Barack Obama for president, but seven years later the Nobel Prize winner now stands against the president on global warming. “I would say that basically global warming...
by jstewardfree | Jul 22, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Billy Hallowell | Professor Pokes Holes in Common Claims Surrounding Why People Become Islamic Extremists — and Reveals the ‘Toxic Brew’ at the Center of It All. A Georgetown University foreign policy professor who also serves as a senior adviser to the U.S. State...
by jstewardfree | Jul 13, 2015 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Should ideas be censored by governments? And book distributors? Consider the curious case of Apple vs The Manhattan Declaration. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for...
by jstewardfree | Jun 10, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Thomas G. West | Did Americans before the 20th century lack compassion for the poor? Did they treat the poor with indifference or even cruelty? That is the impression given by most high school and college textbooks. Few students ever learn that government-funded...
by jstewardfree | Jun 3, 2015 | Grey Matter
By Clyde Haberman | The second half of the 1960s was a boom time for nightmarish visions of what lay ahead for humankind. In 1966, for example, a writer named Harry Harrison came out with a science fiction novel titled “Make Room! Make Room!” Sketching a dystopian...
