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3 days ago
Ridiculous Fox News Claim of the Day: Reason Caused the Holocaust
Anthony Foxx, the mayor of Charlotte and Obama’s pick for the next Secretary of Transportation, issued two city proclamations yesterday. One of them recognized the National Day of Prayer; the other one declared the day to be a Day of Reason. The second proclamation noted that the country was founded…
2 weeks ago
"Japan's Diverse Debating Styles" - post on BauschardDebate
By Edmund Zagorin Japan has a long tradition of Western-style policy debates stretching back to postwar debate exchanges with the US, organized by the National Communication Association. Since 1969, there have been 33 US-Japan Debate exchanges organized through the Committee on International Discussion and Debate. With the advent of “spreading” in the 1970s, US policy&
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15 spots left at #xdi13 - latebird deadline extended until May 15
xdi:
If you have been accepted to XDI and paid your deposit, the remainder of your tuition balance is due June 15, 2013. Don’t want to miss the date? Send it in *EARLY*! Questions? xylumdebate@gmail.com
3 weeks ago
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Codex Seraphinianus, 1976-1978
‘The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini, from 1976 to 1978. The book appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, an alphabetic writing intended to be meaningless.’
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