Day: August 15, 2012

This great looking guy is my nephew Zach.  You can see who the other dude is.

I think that maybe a person’s politics are genetic.  Most of my relatives are fairly alike politically.  I can go through 20 relatives and only about 3 or 4 are conservative.  Censored has done a  lot of reading about  the brains of conservatives being different than the brains of liberals.  What else have we found out about how people get their politics?  I would say my parents were moderate to conservative.

Do you share your parents’ political views?  How about your siblings and cousins?

I am probably closer to my parents’ view than my brothers are.

Have you ever wanted to just take a course for the hell of it?  No professional development, no enhancing your resume–just taking a course because you want to study or you want to know more about something?  I sure have.  How about the added bonus of not having to get in your car and go somewhere to do it?  How about being able to work, study and attend class when YOU want to, even if its the middle of the night?  How about that class being taught be top professors at the top ranked universities in the country and a few not in the country?

If the above all sounds appealing to you and you are thinking…”well sign me up, Moon-howler”, then do I have a deal for you!  Check out Coursera.org.  Look at the schools involved.  Wowowow!  Cal Tech, just like the dudes on Numb3rs on TV!  Standford!  Duke!  UVA!  Johns Hopkins!  Princeton!  Impressed yet?  Check out the course offerings from the home page.  There are a lot of courses listed.  Best of all, they are free.

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