Sleepy Old Bear Diaries

Here.

Couples who shack up before tying the knot are more likely to get divorced than their counterparts who don’t move in together until marriage, a new study suggests.
Upwards of 70 percent of U.S. couples are cohabiting these days before marrying, the researchers estimate.
The study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, indicates [...]

People and empires were on the move during the years of the MWP, and they stopped moving-or moved out-afterward.  SOMETHING was certainly happening at this time, and something destroyed many of these great empires. 
When the Maunder Minimum struck in 1645, the Earth appears to have cooled globally, and the moment in the sun for many [...]

Here.
Robinson says renewed investments in university research will create jobs and contribute to the long-term economic and social development of the country.
“The government must also invest in the skills and knowledge of people through increased funding to provinces in support of universities and colleges,” he added.
CAUT is also calling on the government to expand access [...]

Now this is the primary problem with the US education system. It is NOT about preparing youth for the real world by arming them with employable skills. It’s now about two things;
1. Generating money for those who work in the education industry
2. Brainwashing youth for political purposes, namely to vote in the future in the best interests [...]

By Clay Waters (Bio | Archive)
July 10, 2009 – 17:29 ET

New York Times columnist Judith Warner’s latest web column, “Dangerous Resentment,” sees “archaic, phantasmagoric” hatred in the case of Montana State professor Bridget Kevane, arrested for child endangerment for leaving five pre-teen kids (three of them her own) at a mall so she could get some rest. In a [...]

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori says it’s “heresy” to believe that an individual can be saved through a sinner’s prayer of repentance.
 
 
In her opening address to the church’s General Conference in California, Jefferts Schori called that “the great Western heresy: that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be [...]

I really would like to see Stillman devote his intellectual pursuits to such courses.
Here.
 
A year ago the biggest issue in education after budgets was whether “Intelligent Design” should be taught in the nation’s schools. Opponents called it a form of “creationism” and the press dubbed the ensuing legal battle as the biggest clash between faith and [...]

From the Confession of a Savoyard Vicar (embedded in Bk 4 of the Emile):
   I conceived that the weakness of the human understanding was the first cause of the prodigious variety I found in their sentiments, and that pride was the second. We have no standard with which to measure this immense machine; we cannot [...]

Just found this interesting publication, thanks to David Virtue.
I have been having pertinent thoughts for a long time … Would it not be better to keep one’s shoulder to the wheel as long as one has mental and physical health sufficient to the task? Not a matter of making money but of using one’s abilities [...]