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Reid Cornwell's Blog – January 2011 Archive (3)

A Declaration for Education Freedom adapted from Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Leo J. Fahey



“We are aware: that the opinions and belief of the young depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, who, being themselves fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the judgments, attitudes, and outlooks of the young, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and such endeavoring to impose them on the young,… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on January 12, 2011 at 8:21pm — No Comments

Net Neutrality as Diplomacy: Jonathan Zittrain

Popular imagination holds that the turf of a state’s foreign embassy is a little patch of its homeland. Enter the American Embassy in Beijing and you are in the United States. Indeed, in many contexts—such as resistance to search and seizure by a host country’s authorities—there is an inviolability to diplomatic outposts. These arrangements have been central to diplomacy for decades so that diplomats can perform their work without fear of harassment and coercion.

Complementing a…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on January 6, 2011 at 7:02am — No Comments

Writing to be Falsified!

In 1939, Einstein stated on film that sustainable chain reactions were impossible because it took more energy to initiate a reaction than the reaction would yield, a position shared by Ernest Rutherford and based upon a failed line of research which used charged particles to initiate a reaction. Later that year, Leó Szilárd, a former student, asked Einstein to endorse the now-famous letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt that stimulated the Manhattan Project, a seminal event in human history…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on January 3, 2011 at 1:00pm — No Comments

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