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“Free” Private Education - MIT OpenCourseWare

In 1999, MIT began an initiative to “virtualize” all of their graduate and undergraduate programs, for public consumption, por gratis (an idea similar to Wikipedia).

As of September 2003 the Institute has published 500 courses online - and an even larger cornucopia will be marching along the way throughout the next 5 years (2008 is the goal for total implementation).

With courses ranging from biology to nuclear engineering to the Sloan School of Management, the OCW program will assist the Curious George within all of us – and hopefully one group in particular: two million home schooled students.

The whole OCW system is actually a great justification for not going to highschool at all. In addition to John Gatto’s thoughts on The System™, if a 17 year-old has access to the web, they could easily finish dozens of college-level courses without much guidance or direction at all.

In fact, despite what some holy rollers in Tennessee might ban, the Darwin and Design reading list is great. The selection is diverse in both age, some dating 200+ years old, and with topic matter, Alice in Wonderland isn’t the first book that comes to mind when discussing Creation.

Anyways, if you’re a parent, teacher or student, be sure to visit the OCW and become a bonified beaver.

Creature Thought Extinct Found in Cuba:

HAVANA - A living example of an insectivore native to Cuba — but believed for years to extinct — has been found in the island’s eastern mountains, a Cuban news agency reported.

The discovery of the male insect-eating mammal known as an almiqui (pronounced ahl-mee-KEE) raises hopes “that it will not wind up in the catalog of the irretrievable animals disappearing from the face of the Earth,” Prensa Latina said in reporting the discovery.

The creature looks like a brownish woolly badger with a long, pink-tipped snout and can measure up to about 19 inches, according to Prensa Latina’s Monday dispatch.

Raise your right hand if you think Ra has a sense of humor. Now with that out of the way, who wouldn’t want to have one of those fellas as a pet? He’d definitely fix the fire ant problem on my lawn and then some.

Via FultonChain.

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