Posts tagged “usa”
Schooling from two perspectives
A couple of links first about the Finnish School system in the Atlantic. The answers Finland provides seem to run counter to just about everything America’s school reformers are trying to do. Compare this with an article in the Guardian today US Schools with their own police. More and more US schools have police patrolling [...]
Best Office
“We do have a shot at building the best office building in the world,” Jobs told the Council members, “Architecture students will come here to see this.” Ideally Apple wants to move into the campus in 2015. (via)
USA Flood control system Should Go Dutch
Flood control systems in the Netherlands are built to withstand storms of a severity seen once in 10,000 years, in the US the levees are built to stand up to storms of a severity anticipated once in a century. (via) As storm season comes around in the USA Mary Landrieu a Senator from New Orleans [...]
Museum of Horses***t
I haven’t laughed so much for a long time…. It is what it is: An attractive and diverting repository for a massive load of horseshit. And, well, let’s be realists: That load of horseshit’s not going away anytime soon. Might as put it somewhere that it’s out of everyone else’s way. The Creation Museum manages [...]