by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Education, Public Health, US West
Suicides in the USA increased 31% from 2000 to 2020. Currently about 46,000 people a year successfully commit suicide. LS 2015 Washington Post county level map of US suicide rates County and State Data Map: Defining Mental Health Across Communities | Mental...
by Larry Shultz | Mar 6, 2023 | Climate, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Public Health
A threat to free speech: Ron DeSantis targets journalists, media with new legislation (msn.com) Attack facts, attack history, attack books, attack teachers, attack science, attack memory, attack immigrants, attack LBG, attack public health, attack the very...
by Larry Shultz | Mar 5, 2023 | Biodiversity, Climate, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy, Public Health
Update to limits to growth (stanford.edu) TGS57 Gaya Herrington Transcript.docx (squarespace.com) (72) Ugo Bardi – The Limits to Growth 50 years later. The role of models in studying the future” – YouTube Ugo Bardi is a professor of Physical Chemistry LS...
by Larry Shultz | Mar 5, 2023 | Education
The only political question is the timetable to nihilistic ignorance and willful ignorance at the cultural level. Looking at the latest OECD skills study (which includes everyone regardless of academic achievement) our literacy level among adults is 18th of 22...
by Larry Shultz | Mar 4, 2023 | Democracy, Education
DeSantis’s Educational Policies Come Right Out of the Fascist Playbook – CounterPunch.org
by Larry Shultz | Mar 1, 2023 | Democracy, Education
The National Center for Education Statistics is a branch of the Federal Department of Education. They released a study in April 2007 on the results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy. There are 3 components of modern literacy testing: prose, document...