Rock of Nations
A leader of the Alcatraz Occupation discusses its successful tactics in reversing the federal policy of Indian termination
You Weren’t Educated, You Were Trained
...brilliant and motivated, stands in for his less academically inclined brother in the all-important Academic Aptitude Exam, inadvertently achieving the highest score in Chile. Though Twainlike in its humor and...
Confessions of an American Pumpkin Eater
...or AP, system, here’s how it works: The College Board certifies certain high-school classes as AP, meaning they cover college-level material, and administers a big exam at the end of...
Milton Friedman’s Pencil
...spell for them on a computer. Elsewhere, students complained recently that hand-writing a statement in cursive, a prelude to the PSAT, was the most difficult part of the exam. Of...
Host in the Shell
...the body, where sometimes it feels like truth goes to die. Bodies are marvels. Bodies are weird, and do what they want. Bodies don’t always follow a script. What makes...
Sunday Reading
...Practically Marzipan: Emotional Labour A Looting Men Explain Lolita to Me The Mystery of Our Favourite Writers "Another University is Possible" The mystery of India's deadly exam scam Beauty is...
Upping the Antihero
...his score on the detective’s exam – which he believed to be the highest in the department – wasn’t only worse than Juliet’s, but also worse than Shawn’s, who aced...
No Dignity, No Doubt
...power control the definition of the word. What if we’ve got Bouazizi’s example all wrong? *** Dignity, after all, has an undignified history. When Kim Jong Il died in December,...
Mapping the Sneakernet
...paper, USB sticks and Bluetooth. Solar-powered computer kiosks in rural areas can have simple capabilities for connecting to mobile phones’ SD cards for upload and download. Technology training courses can...
The Collected Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times Vol. 2
...click the image or link below to download Download the Collected Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times Vol. 2 here. I only agreed to write this...
Own to Rent
...the long-running SimCity franchise, was supposed to be available for download and play on March 5, 2013. The download part mostly worked. The play part did not. The problems were...
The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...After purchasing digital music, you can download it in whatever format you like, as many times as you want, as long as the site exists. You can listen to music...
Feasts Under the Bridge
...personal website became the WordPress, the Blogspot, etc.; hacking seemed less practical as an expenditure, and destroying other people with the intended tools of the platform became much more desirable....
TNI Rex (3)
...publisher to release the book for free online, and you can download it in a number of formats from Project Gutenberg. The book was published in 1992, but I recently...
Socializing the Dark Web
...is by far the easiest of the tools needed to access the dark web that I've tried. It's really just download, extract, and double-click, then you're on your way. True,...
Security Culture Is Good
...are bare-minimum security requirements for anyone using modern communications tools. • Download HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy Badger for your browser. • Turn on two-factor authentication for all your social media...