Sparks Commentary
Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
The English Lesson
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I don't know where I came across this poem, but I thought it was clever.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Adam Smith and the Pin Factory
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"The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which...
Friday, March 7, 2014
My love-hate relationship with computers
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"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about b...
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Personality
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I have long been interested in personality. I read an informal book called Please Understand Me when I was a young boy, which was a po...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
A review of “Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided”
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" ' A house divided against itself cannot stand .' I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half ...
A review of Steven Spielberg's “Lincoln”
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" ... that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom ... " - Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863) ...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Some thoughts about history education
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My theory on learning history is that most people are interested in the subject - they just don't all realize it.
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