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What are Wicked Problems?

Wicked problems are problems that are difficult or impossible to solve. These issues are referred to as wicked, not because they are inherently good or evil, but because issues conceal incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements. Solutions are resistent and often difficult to...

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Golden Rule of Reciprocity

Law of Reciprocity A maxim of altruism to govern behavior Appears in most religions and cultures Can be positive or negative Golden Rule Anglican theologians and preachers popularized the term “Golden Rule” to description the Law of Reciprocity in early 17th century...

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History of the Pledge of Allegience

Teaching Patriotism in the Public Schools While researching the history of public schools in America, we ran across this historical gem: Methods Teaching Patriotism in the Public Schools. In 1887, after the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction, retired Union Army...

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Chore Wars

Division of Chores In a civilized society, a modicum of grooming and maintenance is required for an individual to successfully exist. This means some chores are required for everyone, man, woman or child, rich or poor. Chores are how we learn the...

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What Is Equity?

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Chaos Wonders How Does Equal Distribution Work? If articles of the Constitution and civics lessons have not been taught in public schools for decades how will children realize what they are asked now to relinquish? The Constitution is the basis against which...

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The Right to Free, Clean Water

Water Wars Water wars of yore are not as yore as one would like to believe, Chaos asserts. Everything that lives and breathes on this planet needs water to survive. H2O, the most abundant compound on Earth’s surface has become a commodity....

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Too Much Too Know

A truism you can take to the bank. The more we learn the stupider we get. It is impossible for any one person to know everything because they’d spend their entire lives plugged in like a computer program gobbling up data, forget...

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New & Improved Twitter

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Our past disagreement with ideological Twits over whether an historic reference to an old joke was hate speech to apologize for or legitimate speech… well, both Chaos and Control, after having obsessed and researched to excess, agree that we can’t decide who...

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