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Monthly Archives: April 2024
Campus Life at
Campus Life at
the University of Iowa
Google Translate was launched
on this day in 2006
Google Translate was launched on this day – April 28 – in 2006.
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Artificial intelligence is helpful in the classroom in so that students use it as a thought starter.
~ Dmitri J. O’Bannon
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Educational supply is concentrated in the North, but a disproportionate share of the growth in the college-ready student population is in the South.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Anyone who tells you that the sole purpose of education is the acquisition of negotiable skills is attempting to reduce you to a productive employee at work, a gullible consumer in the market, and a docile subject of the state.
~ William Deresiewicz
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KROC went on the air
on this day in 1962
KROQ – alternative rock format radio station serving the Los Angeles area – first signed on to the air as KPPC-FM 106.7 on this day – April 23, 1962.
The station is perhaps best known for showcasing Jimmy Kimmel in the role of “Jimmy the Sports Guy” on the KROQ morning show between 1994 and 1999.
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If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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