A New Agenda for Peace (UN Policy Brief #9, July 2023)

In the declaration on the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, heads of State and Government undertook to promote peace and prevent conflicts. Honoring this pledge will require major changes by Member States, in their own actions and in their commitment to uphold and strengthen the multilateral system as the only viable …

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Democracy and Education (John Dewey)

1. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone …

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The Elementary School Education: Democracy in Education (Vol IV, No. 4 )

MODERN life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectiveness — the emancipation of [the] mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed[om] capacity of thought behind it is only chaos. If [the] external authority …

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ጠ/ሚ ዐቢይ አሕመድ ከኦሮሚያ ክልል ሁሉም ዞኖች ከተወጣጡ ተወካዮች ጋር ያደረጉት ውይይት! (NBC Ethiopia)

National Media SC is here to support, the success of our country’s transformational journey; to develop a civic-democratic political culture; which will be free from extremism and racism; for peace to prevail; for building a market-led economy; it is a corporation organized by patriotic Ethiopians who are motivated to make an ultimatum contribution through professional …

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Ethical Standards For Election Administration (Benjamin Ginsberg, Bob Bauer, and Charles Stewart III)

Elections in the United States are conducted by dedicated election officials committed to ensuring fairness, accuracy, accessibility, and security. For most election officials, ethical standards are based on personal ethical convictions, commitment to abide by state ethics laws, and dedication to follow their oath of office. While no unified set of ethical principles exists in …

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West Virginia Advances Bill Allowing Criminal Prosecution of Librarians Over Books (Miles Klee)

As Republicans nationwide continue to sound the alarm about how children are supposedly being indoctrinated and “groomed” into adopting LGBTQ identities at school, West Virginia legislators are pushing a new kind of crackdown on books deemed “obscene.” The idea is as simple as it is chilling: make librarians and teachers criminally liable for allowing kids to access such material. House Bill …

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Evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics:Effectively Communicating to Non-technicians (Alexander Schreiber and Steven Gimbel)

Given the degree of disbelief in the theory of evolution by the wider public, scientists need to develop a collection of clear explanations and metaphors that demonstrate the working of the theory and the flaws in anti-evolutionist arguments. This paper presents tools of this sort for countering the anti-evolutionist claim that evolutionary mechanisms are inconsistent …

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How geometry created modern physics (Yang-Hui He)

What’s the story behind the five axioms of Euclidean geometry – and how is post-Euclidean geometry linked to modern physics? [An illustrative story of the relationship among Euclidian geometry, Algebra, Cartesian geometry, and calculus] Watch the Video