by Rupe | Jan 26, 2016 | Mad Musings, Mentoring
Life isn’t fair.
That truth is something that children seem to understand almost intuitively at a young age. However, the path through which they develop a sense of what’s fair and what isn’t — and how they act on injustices — is something that has been a puzzle for social scientists.
Fairness is a willingness to sacrifice for the sake of equality. It is an ideal that supports cooperation, sharing and sacrifice. But it also can lead to competition and greed.
Source: Newsela
My Comments: Pretty interesting stuff…
by Rupe | Nov 19, 2015 | Mad Musings
The young lawyer fought the British empire for the rights of Indians, but not those of the Zulus he lived among.
Gandhi was 24 years old when he arrived in Natal, South Africa in May 1893, the month in which white settlers celebrated the 50th anniversary of Natal’s annexation by the British Crown.
Source: Gandhi’s Unequal Justice in South Africa | New Republic
My Comments: Pretty interesting take on Ghandi…
by Rupe | Sep 5, 2015 | Mad Musings
Give us your age and gender, and we’ll tell you when you’ll die, using math!
The last Friday of the summer season is now upon us. As the days shorten and the leaves change and the year staggers toward its frigid terminus in the dead of winter, we at Wonkblog have been thinking about the inevitable conclusions of our own lives, and wondering how much of our potential we’ve squandered already.
So naturally, we made a fun little calculator to find out.
Source: Statistically speaking, when are you going to die? Come find out!
My Comments: Very interesting…
by Rupe | Aug 28, 2015 | Mad Musings
Doing so undermines the cause of racial equality in general and the pursuit of equitable treatment in the criminal justice system in particular.
After shutting down a Bernie Sanders speech at a Seattle rally for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, Black Lives Matter activist Marissa Johnson declared to MSNBC’s Tamron Hall that she was motivated by a desire to hold liberal candidates accountable.
Source: Liberals Are Wrong to Separate Race from Class
My Comments: Very good article; well worth a read.
by Rupe | Aug 25, 2015 | Mad Musings, Reflections
Parenting doesn’t stop at Freshman Week.
All across the United States, people are weeping. They are sobbing, sputtering, sniveling and mewling because they are in the process of saying goodbye to their little baby boy or little baby girl who somehow has passed through the larval stage to emerge suddenly as this new creature called a college freshman.
Source: At college drop-off weepfest, remember these three words
My Comments: My day is coming and I would be lying if I didn’t say I dread it. As much as I want my boy to go out in the world and thrive, I know I will miss him greatly. As I write this, today is the first day of his senior year in high school. A year from now he will likely be off to come college. I get reflective even now as I think about it.
by Rupe | Aug 21, 2015 | Mad Musings
What a spectacular sight
Here we see the spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 — more commonly known as WR 124 — and the nebula M1-67 which surrounds it. Both objects, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are found in the constellation of Sagittarius and lie 15,000 light-years away.
Source: A Hubble Cosmic Couple | NASA
My Comments: What confounding sights from the heavens; where did all this come from…I wonder?
