Daily Topics - Thursday October 20th, 2011
By shawnt56
Check out Thom's appearance on Dylan Ratigan's show
Hour One: Yaz...what did "Big Pharma" forget to tell us? Attorney, Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Hour Two: "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President" - Ron Suskind / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - Feeding the world while protecting the planet
Hour Three: "Suicide of a Super Power: Will America Survive to 2025" - Pat Buchanan
Comments
#2
"Integral" is emphasized on the first syllable--/IN-teg-ral/, not /in-TEG-ral/. Trust me, I tutored calculus.
I should also add, because of a couple of callers, that "permit" shifts its emphasis depending on whether it's a noun or a verb. /PER-mit/ is a noun, /per-MIT/ is a verb.
#3
During his interview with Pat Buchanan, Thom should have brought up the research of Dr.Claude Steele, who discovered how the stereotype threat negatively affects student testing. In WHISTLING VIVALDI, Claude Steele shares the experiments and studies that show, again and again, that exposing subjects to stereotypes—merely reminding a group of female math majors about to take a math test, for example, that women are considered naturally inferior to men at math. Likewise, African-American testers achieve lower scores when faced with a "stereotype threat" and score higher when there is no stereotype threat, i.e. the test subjects believe they are capable of scoring as high as any other group. Also, schools like The Children's Zone in N.Y. have taken black children who were failing in other schools and developed them into top achievers. How is that possible if the children's abilities are supposedly limited, according to test scores?
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
By webmaster
Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
Images of Thom
With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
From Cracking the Code:
"No one communicates more thoughtfully or effectively on the radio airwaves than Thom Hartmann. He gets inside the arguments and helps people to think them through—to understand how to respond when they’re talking about public issues with coworkers, neighbors, and friends. This book explores some of the key perspectives behind his approach, teaching us not just how to find the facts, but to talk about what they mean in a way that people will hear."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"In an age rife with media-inspired confusion and political cowardice, we yearn for a decent, caring, deeply human soul whose grasp of the problems confronting us provides a light by which we can make our way through the quagmire of lies, distortions, pandering, and hollow self-puffery that strips the American Dream of its promise. How lucky we are, then, to have access to the wit, wisdom, and willingness of Thom Hartmann, who shares with us here that very light, grown out of his own life experience."
From Screwed:
"If we are going to live in a Democracy, we need to have a healthy middle class. Thom Hartmann shows us how the ‘cons’ have wronged this country, and tells us what needs to be done to reclaim what it is to be American."
So I understand the Republicans are going to hold their convention underwater next year. Or at least the banner for the convention says "Tampa Bay" on it, as opposed to the city known as Tampa. (The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were named so as to include St. Petersburg, on the other side of the bay, in the fan base. But the convention is a one-time event, and it's supposed to be about the whole country.)
I wish they would hold their convention "underwater", so maybe they'd find out how people feel about their mortgages.