"Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College; Get Ready to Get Dirty; What’s Wrong With the College Model?
December 13, 2013 0

"Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College; Get Ready to Get Dirty; What’s Wrong With the College Model?

By News Desk

Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs chimes in on the US education system in an interview with Nick Gillespie on Reason.Com . click on above link if video does not play Rowe : If we are lending money that ostensibly we don’t have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don’t exist, I might suggest that we’ve gone around the bend a little bit. Gillespie : We are doing everything we can to push every kid to go to a four-year college.

Italy’s "Pitchfork Protests" Spread to Rome; Interior Minister Warns of "Drift Into Rebellion"
December 13, 2013 0

Italy’s "Pitchfork Protests" Spread to Rome; Interior Minister Warns of "Drift Into Rebellion"

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Reuters reports Italy’s ‘pitchfork protests,’ in fourth day, spread to Rome . Italy’s "pitchfork" protests spread to Rome on Thursday when hundreds of students clashed with police and threw firecrackers outside a university where government ministers were attending a conference. Truckers, small businessmen, the unemployed, students and low-paid workers have staged four days of rallies in cities from Turin in the north to Sicily in the south in the name of the "pitchfork" movement, originally a loosely organized group of farmers from Sicily.

Shaking the Cup for Science
December 13, 2013 0

Shaking the Cup for Science

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UPDATE:  Fergus Brown joins the campaign Why should it matter? Because it is difficult enough to achieve public recognition of AGW without making a mess of the important work which lies at the heart of the science, as well as the public outreach. Because we need to know