tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76644180249136715962024-03-13T12:14:45.406-07:00My World-1This blog consists of links to news articles I find of interest, other blogs, and my own writings. While many are replicated on Twitter and Facebook, others can only be found as posted here.The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.comBlogger443125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-48641310272031585702012-02-11T18:44:00.000-08:002012-02-11T18:44:59.337-08:00UNEMPLOYMENT": Low young adult rates<h1 class="entry-title"><a href="http://moneyland.time.com/2012/02/09/fewest-young-adults-in-60-years-have-jobs/#ixzz1m8EKMwe9">Fewest Young Adults in 60 Years Have Jobs</a><br /></h1><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br /></div>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-71693036783313269672012-02-10T09:28:00.000-08:002012-02-10T09:28:54.413-08:00POLITICS: liberals/Conservatives: The differences are real<h2 class="title" style="font-size: 35px;">
<a href="http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=145322">Jonathan Haidt Explains Our Contentious Culture</a></h2>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-63005209729343601842012-02-09T09:33:00.000-08:002012-02-09T09:33:14.775-08:00PROGRAMMING: New learning toold<h1 class="entry-title">
<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/building-programming-tutorials-with-codecademy/38378?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en"><span style="font-size: small;">Building Programming Tutorials with Codecademy</span></a></h1>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-52012594887107273092012-02-07T06:17:00.001-08:002012-02-07T06:25:51.239-08:00EDUCATION: Idiot America for all the world to see!<h1 class="articleHeadline" itemprop="headline">
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/education/despite-focus-on-data-standards-for-diploma-may-still-lack-rigor.html?_r=1&src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Feducation%2Findex.jsonp"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite Focus on Data, Standards for Diploma May Still Lack Rigor</span></a></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">After viewing examples of what the New York Regents exam allows to "earn" a diploma, much of the collapse of the myth of American exceptionalism can be easily understood. (Of course, only by the few remaining, who are capable of making this assessment)</span></b></span></h1>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-7334869340761649582012-01-29T07:15:00.000-08:002012-01-29T07:15:43.345-08:00UNEBPLOYMENT: Silicon Valley tough on older workers<h1 class="articleHeadline" itemprop="headline">
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_5099593"><span style="font-size: small;">Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves O</span></a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/us/bay-area-technology-professionals-cant-get-hired-as-industry-moves-on.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all"><span style="font-size: small;">n</span></a></h1>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-27605960854504760882012-01-28T17:52:00.000-08:002012-01-28T17:53:39.805-08:00PSYCHOLOGY: More confirmation of link between intlleigence and conservatism<h1>
<a href="http://mpricemitchell.visibli.com/share/FdJHel"><span style="font-size: small;">Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice</span></a></h1>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-55683657537561865072012-01-23T06:31:00.000-08:002012-01-23T06:31:54.576-08:00SECURITY: Accessing company secrets<h1 class="articleHeadline">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/technology/flaws-in-videoconferencing-systems-put-boardrooms-at-risk.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">Cameras May Open Up the Board Room to Hacker</a>s</span></h1>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-23089354286274267662012-01-17T11:04:00.001-08:002012-01-17T11:04:56.031-08:00RELIGION: In Atheists we distrust<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=In+Atheists+We+Distrust&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a">An explanation for the distrust and dislike of atheists</a>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-13830139801576864732012-01-17T06:06:00.000-08:002012-01-17T06:06:51.875-08:00COMPUTING: Resources for learning programming<a href="http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/2012/01/16/so-you-want-to-learn-to-program/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en">So You Want to Learn to Program?</a>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-58224497873783008382012-01-16T12:39:00.000-08:002012-01-16T12:39:44.180-08:00EVOLUTION A Turning point in understanding evolution<a href="http://links.email.scientificamerican.com/ctt?kn=61&ms=Mzg3MTMyNTAS1&r=NTM5NzIzNTI2NAS2&b=0&j=MTI3Mjc4MTcxS0&mt=1&rt=0">Epigenetics = A Tuning point in understanding Heredity</a>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-61731532520537923322012-01-12T06:00:00.000-08:002012-01-12T06:00:45.948-08:00EDUCATION: Impact of teacher excellence<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/opinion/kristof-the-value-of-teachers.html">The difference between a strong teacher and a weak teacher lasts a lifetime</a>.</span>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-60346372590723790692012-01-09T09:24:00.000-08:002012-01-09T09:25:09.454-08:00EDUCATION: Online schools have rapid growth<h1>
<a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/8504295/toolbar?ref=nlm&utm_campaign=mynews_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=20120109_listing"><span style="font-size: small;">Why Is Public Education Being Outsourced to Online Charter Schools?</span></a><span id="goog_295319033"></span><span id="goog_295319034"></span></h1>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-8112863425539839502012-01-03T06:47:00.000-08:002012-01-03T06:48:42.477-08:00OPED: The Real Republicans<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/opinion/workers-of-the-world-unite.html"><span style="font-size: small;">Worker's of the World, Unite</span>!</a>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-30129763236011891522012-01-03T05:47:00.000-08:002012-01-03T06:51:05.633-08:00MILITARY: Panetta to Offer Strategy for Cutting Military Budget<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/us/pentagon-to-present-vision-of-reduced-military.html">Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is set this week to reveal his strategy that will guide the Pentagon in cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from its budge</a>t, and with it the Obama administration’s vision
of the military that the United States needs to meet 21st-century
threats, according to senior officials.The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-79165259203926530522012-01-01T06:22:00.000-08:002012-01-01T06:22:16.343-08:00UNEMPLOYMENT: Tje impact of personal technology on the workplace<h1 class="articleHeadline"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/jobs/for-multitaskers-2012-may-be-a-year-of-revenge.html"><span style="font-size: small;">The Year of the Multitaskers’ Revenge</span></a></h1><strong>THE UNEMPLOYMENT DIVIDE </strong>The overall <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf" title="Link to unemployment report.">unemployment rate</a> is 8.6 percent, but break down the number by educational attainment and the picture looks different. Those with college degrees are the lucky ones: the jobless rate for them is 4.4 percent. That compares with 8.8 percent for those with only a high school diploma and 13.2 percent for those with no diploma at all. <br />
Consider, too, that less than 30 percent of the United States population age 25 or older <a href="http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html" title="Link to Census report.">has a bachelor’s degree</a> or higher. Large groups of Americans will continue to be unemployed or underemployed unless more training and educational opportunities become available. <br />
<h1 class="articleHeadline"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-90597476474737870292011-12-28T08:13:00.000-08:002011-12-28T08:13:38.038-08:00EDUCATION: Illegal Religion continues in Public Schools<h1 class="articleHeadline"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/us/battling-anew-over-the-place-of-religion-in-public-schools.html?pagewanted=all"><span style="font-size: small;">Battling Anew Over the Place of Religion in Public Schools</span></a></h1>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-10198555459251566772011-12-27T07:21:00.000-08:002011-12-27T07:21:02.141-08:00The Hormone Surge of Middle Childhood<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/science/now-we-are-six-the-hormone-surge-of-middle-childhood.html?pagewanted=all">VIEWED superficially, the part of youth that the psychologist Jean Piaget called middle childhood looks tame and uneventful</a>, a quiet patch of road on the otherwise hairpin highway to adulthood.The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-90010441584639070922011-12-16T15:06:00.000-08:002011-12-16T15:06:53.079-08:00PSYCHOLOGY: Bullying a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon<a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/12/15/the-origins-of-bullying/?WT_mc_id=SA_DD_20111216">The Origins of Bullying | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network</a>:<br /><br /><a style="font-size:13px" href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk">'via Blog this'</a>The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-52255169635053419522011-12-12T09:32:00.000-08:002011-12-12T09:37:25.554-08:00COMPUTING: IBM gets closer to making a computer into a brain<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2011/12/09/cognitive-computing-when-computers-become-brains/">By moving from the clock driven model of current computing, to one more like the synapse based human brain, IBM is moving toward far more "intelligent," computing</a>.The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-35266827030273854942011-12-12T06:11:00.000-08:002011-12-12T06:25:05.070-08:00EDUCATION: Classroom Analytics new tool for college success<a href="http://bit.ly/rBamcm">The use of granular data regarding student performance is enhancing the college learning experience</a>.The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-6738566998622566492011-12-06T08:09:00.000-08:002011-12-06T08:11:32.088-08:00NEUROSCIENCE: Seeking, wanting mechanisms linked to neurotransmitters<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/8GLmbp/www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/08/seeking.single.html">An explanation of the Seeking and Wanting mechanisms as linked to Dopamine vs, opioids</a>. Important implications for EducationThe_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-53401135653131391612011-12-06T06:33:00.000-08:002011-12-06T06:33:19.540-08:00EDUCATION: The failure of standardized testing<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/when-an-adult-took-standardized-tests-forced-on-kids/2011/12/05/gIQApTDuUO_blog.html?tid=ts_carousel">A successful adult with demonstrated problem solving ability fails a reading/math test given to 10th graders</a>.The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-67660278812025139412011-12-05T10:38:00.000-08:002011-12-05T10:38:26.722-08:00EDUCATION: OpEd Where the schools fall short<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7664418024913671596">The writer has finally put to words what everyone already knows </a>-- kids are hugely unprepared for college requiring major remediationThe_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-57200877373894172782011-12-04T06:04:00.000-08:002011-12-04T06:04:11.660-08:00MEDICINE: Back from Brain Dead<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/can-ambien-wake-minimally-conscious.html?pagewanted=all">Ambien and other meds can sometimes move vegetative patients to improved levels of consciousness</a>.The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664418024913671596.post-14991023450826794822011-12-02T05:45:00.000-08:002011-12-02T05:45:20.754-08:00UNEMPLOYMENT: Few return to desirable jobs<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/business/for-jobless-little-hope-of-full-recovery-study-says.html?pagewanted=all">Only 7% have returned to jobs offering compensation and benefits equal to or better than those they previously held</a>.The_Icemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16673849101474242482noreply@blogger.com0