Entries from July 2009

July 18, 2009

Visualizing Memes

Posted by David
This entry is a plug for Google Trends. Some fascinating trends in the collective consciousness can be found there.
My mother and I were having a discussion. The gist of it was whether or not ‘the media’ was controlled in our country. We weren’t exactly on the same page, but not that far off.
In [...]

July 14, 2009

A Brief Look Back: Virgil Hawkins

Posted by Mike
Back in 1949, an African-American applied for admission to the University of Florida Law School. At the time all public schools and public colleges and universities throughout the South were segregated – African-Americans attended black-only schools and colleges, and other peoples, mainly Caucasians, attended white-only schools and colleges. There were no exceptions in [...]