INSTRUCTOR ON HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE

An adjunct history professor at a junior college weighs in on the higher education bubble and what he is seeing. I think he covers all of the types of students we often see in higher education.

HAROLD CAMPING & RAPTURE

Here is a post-rapture interview with Harold Camping (I think the comments are most revealing).

Rapture Schadenfreude.

THE RAPTURE

The Rapture is now a musical! What has Harold Camping done.

In an interview on the online program TYT Now, he tells the host, Tina Dupuy, that the rapture will actually begin about 6 p.m. local time, which is to say that it will start on the International Dateline and roll across the planet. By our calculations, that means we should begin hearing reports of devastation and ascensions shortly after midnight EDT tonight. (From Chronicle of Higher Education)

HOW LONG WILL YOU LIVE?

Now they have a test that will tell you how long you will live.

A blood test that can show how fast someone is ageing – and offers the tantalising possibility of estimating how long they have left to live – is to go on sale to the general public in Britain later this year.

PHOTO LAURA BUSH & HASIDIC LEADERS

Former first lady was airbrushed out of a photo with Hasidic leaders. Reminds me of Stalin airbrushing opponents out of pictures.

CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Conspiracy theories abound throughout history and almost all of them prove to be wrong or unravel. But here are some instances when the conspiracies turned out to be true. But as conspiracy theories go, these are relatively minor because they were resolved rather quickly (historically speaking). But most of these conspiracies used are also pre-internet and email.

And for some people conspiracies are never resolved. I was visiting with someone who is convinced communists are in charge of the Islamic revolution and terrorism. I am not sure any proof would satisfy him. (And by the way Marxism sees a conspiracy by capitalist forces!)

ONLINE GULAG MUSEUM

An online collection of stories and pictures from the Soviet Gulag. Here is the museum link.

GANDHI AND MALCOM X

Two new biographies show the darker side of these cultural "heroes."