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That's Too Thin: Problems Worth Thinking
http://thatistoothin.com
The goal of «That's Too Thin» project is sharing the awareness of the significant problems the world faces nowadays --- the problems worth thinking.
The most important problems are interrelated with most important resources where energy, water, food, air and thought are on top.
Education is in the focus of discussions on «That's Too Thin».
- Author: Vitaly Pimenov
- Listed in: Development and Growth Education
- Tags: education thinking creativity problems change curiosity
Recent Posts
Robots Will Have Souls
Humans make humans and it is supposed that these new humans have souls. Few years will pass by and humans will be making comparably intelligent robots.Will robots have souls? I think they will. To my mind, what is traditionally called a soul is not ...
Privacy Crisis
Information and methods to process it appear much faster than any regulatory norms. This fact is clearly evident nowadays. And a feeling of upcoming large scale privacy crisis emerges quite often. Information is here so why not to reason about it. Se...
Rethinking Education Pt.16: Test Infected Schools
If you want to loose control over something, automate it. Todays education is following the path of automation. Abundance of computers, ebooks, digital classrooms, tests etc. is good for automation. However I would argue its value for education. It ...
Iranian Election And Democracy Paradoxes
I have written some critical thoughts on the situation a couple of days ago. As the story unwinds I would like to talk about its two components – two paradoxes, one of democracy and one of generations. First, democracy is on stage. Well, where...
Iranian Election Brainwashing?
Twitter stream for #iranElection is updated with hundreds of messages per second. Hysteria is activated: investors, movie makers, engineers, writers, firefighters, dog-trainers, CEOs, taxi-drivers, new-born babies, astronauts, doctors and so on are s...
Information Is A Food
We consume information. We consume food. Analogies are suggesting themselves. Too much information leads to obesity Too little information leads to emaciation Low-quality information leads to indigestion High-quality information requires effort Too ...
