When we think of knowledge, we think some profound truth that, once taught, is seen as fact. Fact carries the connotation of infallibility: a true fact has been proven, it happened, there is no denial of its existence. Sometimes history is our most valuable teacher and in this instance it could hardly be more true. It is common knowledge that the ( Read more... )

So I'm listening to this really great song. It's like the kind of song in a sappy movie where the main character screwed something up big-time with this person they just realized that they were destined to be with, and they're sitting by themselves in a bed or something, looking at the phone and reflecting on what they've just lost. But there's ( Read more... )

You Are an Indie Rocker!
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How You Are In Love
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It's funny, they're doing interviews with dudes from a hockey player's old home town: he did a photo shoot with GQ, quite shirtless. While the women in the town thought it was great (he's pretty hot), the guys were all saying: "He doesn't need to be taking off his shirt to get more popular ( Read more... )

LJ Interests meme results

1. africa:
   Simply put: I'd love to go. My degree in international studies will be focusing on development and I'm taking that focus a step further with development in developing countries like Africa. I might even take a semester abroad at a university there.
2. bartending:
   This is what I do for a living. I'm pretty good at it, I ( Read more... )

When one thinks of an important educational experience, it is easy to look back at the teacher that understood or motivated you, and ultimately enriched your learning experience. I, personally, find it easier to look back at the teachers that made learning difficult. It was the teachers who found that I did not fit into the mold of an average ( Read more... )

We think that Canada is a modern, industrialized nation, yet in terms of the way we deal with our forests we behave like a developing country. For example, durning the 1990s, the Government of Alberta's premier, Donald Getty, sought to diversify the province's economy. The government saw the province's boreal forest as an under-utilized resource ( Read more... )

You Are 21% American
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