EDUCATION: OpEd Where the schools fall short

The writer has finally put to words what everyone already knows -- kids are hugely unprepared for college requiring major remediation

MEDICINE: Back from Brain Dead

Ambien and other meds can sometimes move vegetative patients to improved levels of consciousness.

UNEMPLOYMENT: Few return to desirable jobs

Only 7% have returned to jobs offering compensation and benefits equal to or better than those they previously held.

POLITICS: OpEd -- Gail Collins: Pardoning Romney's Flip-Flopping?

Taking a humorous look at the Flopper-in-Chief, as performed by this uptight Mormon Robot

CRIME: Comonalities of Pedophiles

Cases reveal commonalities in tactics of Pedophiles: Trusted in the community, groom their victims.

EVOLUTION: Wonder how the creationist would deal with this

Awfully tough to saddle a dinosaur when the two species were millions of years apart as represented by this clock:

EDUCATION: Virtual schools -- issues and development

Virtual schools are multiplying, but some question their educational value - The Washington Post:

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UNEMPLOYMENT: The superfluous worker

The Age of the Superfluous Worker - NYTimes.com:

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EDUCATION: add Higher Ed to the failure list

Our unprepared graduates - NewsTrust.net:

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ECONOMY: Boomerangs slow recovery

As Graduates Move Back Home, Economy Feels the Pain - NYTimes.com:

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PSYCHOLOGY: The deification of a Nobody - Coach Joe Paterno

Why Penn State Students Rioted—They Deify Joe Paterno: Scientific American:

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BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS: The influence of Daniel Kahneman

The Anatomy of Influence - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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SCOTUS: The 4tth Amendment in a GPS World

The Supreme Court has a chance to keep Big Brother at bay - NewsTrust.net:

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PSYCHOLOFY: The Paterno Scandal |

The Paterno Scandal | Psychology Today:

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EDUCATION: The sickness of American worship of athletics

There's a lesson in Paterno's downfall, but few will heed it - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com:

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RESEARCH: Pew Current Affairs IQ Test

What the Public Knows – In Words and Pictures | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

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EDUCATION; Thr plagiarism problem in Higher ED

Escalation in Digital Sleuthing Raises Quandary in Classrooms - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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UNEMPLOYMENT: Analysis of Dismal numbers

At this rate, full employment is 12 years away - Rex Nutting - MarketWatch:

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ETHICS: Investigation of professional fraud by Psych Professor

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NEUROSCIENCE: Interior color combinations of fact gender differences differentially

Color Matters: Color and Brain: The Meaning of Color for Gender:

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EDUCATION: Increased acting out by boys linked to lower college enrollment

School Suspensions Among Boys May Be Linked to Lower College Attendance - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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NEUROSCIENCE: Software enables writing to control virtual helicopter

Subjects Move Virtual Chopper with Thoughts: Scientific American Podcast:

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PSYCHOLOGY: Milgram's work revisited 50 years later

BPS Research Digest: Milgram's obedience studies - not about obedience after all?:

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY: David Brooks wants life stories to guide young and stupid

The Life Report - NYTimes.com:

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BIOGRAPHY: Steve Jobs - Unpleasant Nut Case coupled with genius

The Limits of Magical Thinking - NYTimes.com:

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PSYCHOLOGY: Who is really "Open Minded?"

Does Liberal Truly Mean Open-Minded? | Psychology Today:

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OPED: Obama Selects wrong strateguy

The Fighter Fallacy - NYTimes.com:

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EMPLOYMENT: Will the Machines do everything?

Economists See More Jobs for Machines, Not People - NYTimes.com:

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BIOGRAPHY: Steve Jobs - the final story

Steve Jobs opens up about adoption, loves, faith in new biography - The Washington Post:

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POLITICS: George H. W. Bush proves bigotry against atheists

Documents Prove Bush Questioned Citizenship of Atheists:

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MATHEMATICS: Trivia - calculating day of the week, for any date

What Day Is Doomsday? How to Mentally Calculate the Day of the Week for Any Date: Scientific American:

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ECONOMY: Decline in housing value explains broken consumer confidence

Economic Outlook in U.S. Follows Home Prices Downhill - NYTimes.com:

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BIOGRAPHY: Persi Diaconis and teh mathematics of Magic:

The Magical Mind of Persi Diaconis - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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BIOGRAPHY: Persi Diaconis and the mathematics of Magic:

The Magical Mind of Persi Diaconis - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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BIOGRAPHY: Persi Diaconis and teh mathematics of Magic:

The Magical Mind of Persi Diaconis - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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POLITICS: When Crazies become a weapon of the Rich

How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99% | Occupy Wall Street - NewsTrust.net:

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EDUCATION: Application to improve reading speed

ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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EDUCATION: Effect of evolution on classroom learning

Primal Brain in the Modern Classroom:

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TECHNOLOGY: Legal issues arising from police and citizen use of video

Police Using Body-Mounted Video Cameras - NYTimes.com:

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OCCUPY WALL ST.: A failed attempt to explain the purpose

Why Corporate Elites Should Be Petrified of Occupy Wall Street | | AlterNet:

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INTERNET New efforts for prediction of large events, underway

U.S. Intelligence Unit Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’ - NYTimes.com:

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POLITICS: Congress remains unprepared for terrorist attack

Congress still may be unprepared for a terrorist strike - The Washington Post:

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EDUCATION: Guess the easiest college major.

Top 10 Easiest and Hardest College Degree Majors:

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UNEMPLOYMENT: Hard to be sympathetic when there are jobs available!

What Happened to the American Work Ethic? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com:

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ECONOMY: "Over," but not that anyone believes it

Recession Officially Over, U.S. Incomes Kept Falling - NYTimes.com:

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DATA MINING: Campus Threat Assessments

Mining Student Data Could Save Lives - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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UNEMPLOYMENT: Not much hope from future projections

The Depression - If Only Things Were That Good - NYTimes.com:

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EDUCATION: Classroom Software Effective? Not so Much.

A Classroom Software Boom, but Mixed Results Despite the Hype - NYTimes.com:

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OPED KRUGMAN: Evaluating the occupation

Confronting the Malefactors - NYTimes.com:

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BIOGRAPHY: Steve Jobs - Some truth for a change

Steve Jobs, Enemy of Nostalgia - NYTimes.com:

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UNDEREMPLOYMENT: No solution in sight!

More Bleak Job Numbers - NYTimes.com:

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SCOTUS: Judges bring comedy

Breyer and Scalia unintentionally make the case for cameras in the courtroom. - Slate Magazine:

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BIOGRAPHY: Steve Jobs, an explanation for his Rock Star status

Why does Steve Jobs inspire this kind of reaction? - The Washington Post:

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OPED: Brooks NYT innovation stagnation

Where Are the Jobs? - NYTimes.com:

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POLITICS: Occupy Wall Street --Total waste, or not?

Occupy Wall Street Should Beware of the Old Guard - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com:

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BIOGRAPHY: Steve Jobs - The End

With Time Running Short, Steve Jobs Managed His Farewells - NYTimes.com:

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EDUCATION: Girls in Gender Gap by increasing margin

Saving the 'Lost Boys' of Higher Education - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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EDUCATION: Twitter teacher sites

Cybraryman Internet Catalogue:

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EDUCATION: Higher Ed Failure

Our unprepared graduates - NewsTrust.net:

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EDUCATION: Political persuasion is possible

A Pedagogical Success? A Supply Side Young Republican Meets the Human Face of the Great Recession - NewsTrust.net:

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PSYCHOLOGY:Lie detection by increasing cognitive load

The Burden of Lying: Scientific American:

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TECHNOLOGY; Linking gait to identifying criminals

Something in the Way You Move: Cameras May Soon Recognize Criminals by Their Gait [Video]: Scientific American:

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POLITICS: Results of being surrounded by Ignorance

The Rise of the Pro-Ignorance Right Wing Puts us All In Danger - NewsTrust.net:

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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: the mysteries of patternicity

Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise: Scientific American:

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OPED -Atlantic: Geny - Lost Generation?

Are Today's Youth Really a Lost Generation? - NewsTrust.net:

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PHYSICS: Light Speed limit broken?

Particles faster than light: Revolution or mistake? - The Washington Post:

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EDUCATION: Who cheats? And infographic answer

Cheaters | Online Masters Degree:

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NEUROSCIENCE: Teen risk taking

Teenage Brains - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine:

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MILITARY:ROBOTICS: When humans are no onger necessary

A future for drones: automated killing - The Washington Post:

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COMPUTERS; 3 sites that teach programming to beginners

ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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EDUCATION: Verbal skills show marked decline

How to Stop the Drop in Verbal Scores - NYTimes.com:

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OPED: America looking for a moron for a president? Dowd

Egghead and Blockheads - NYTimes.com:

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EMPLOYMENT: international relationship to education

Employment and education - NewsTrust.net:

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LOPED: Death, and whatever happened to compassion?

Let's Talk About Death - NYTimes.com:

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OPED - KRUGMAN: Scrooge "Let then die and decrease the surplus populatio!"

Free to Die - NYTimes.com:

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POLITICS: THE Palin no one knew until now

Palin ‘took drugs and cheated on husband’ - Books | Tonight | IOL.co.za:

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TECHNOLOGY: The rise of the 3-D printer

A Machine That Gives Shape to Your Ideas. - Graphic - NYTimes.com:

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EDUCATION:Vviral video says college is a Scam!

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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PERCEPTION: illusions of the eyes

perception The Eyes Have It: Scientific American:

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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: Testosterone levels drop as males become fathers

Children Sap Their Fathers’ Testosterone Levels, Study Shows - The Washington Post:

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HOMELAND SECURITY: Potential Terrorist Technologies

The Next Attack? Terrorists' Attempts to Hijack Technology: Scientific American:

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NEUROSCIENCE: Explaining Out of Body/Near Death Experience

Peace of Mind: Near-Death Experiences Now Found to Have Scientific Explanations: Scientific American:

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CELEBRITIES: Michale Moore Combats Death threats

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LEGAL: Law developing on right to insult employer

Yes, insults on Facebook can still get you fired | Politics and Law - CNET News:

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POLITICS: Early polling rejects Perrry

What we know so far about Rick Perry’s electability - The Fix - The Washington Post:

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CRIME: An Academic Examination of The Killings of Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper's Interdisciplinary Rap Sheet - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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MILITARY TECHNOLOGY: Advancements in lasers, exoskeletons, and nonlethal weapons

Post-9/11 Technology Brings Exoskeletons, Laser Cannons to 21st-Century U.S. Military [Slide Show]: Scientific American:

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CRIME: Anatomy of Rioting

Freedom to Riot: On the Evolution of Collective Violence | The Primate Diaries, Scientific American Blog Network:

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EDUCATION: Clickers the new cheating enhancers

Cheating Is Now Only a Click Away, So Professors Reduce Incentive - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

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POLITICS: 2012 Cadidate positions to be clarified this month

2012 presidential race begins in earnest this month for Obama and Republican slate - The Washington Post:

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MILITARY: Iraq Deployment Duration in Question

Mission for Md. soldiers unclear with Iraq exit in limbo - The Washington Post:

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EDUCATION:: College Rankings Disputed

U.S. News college rankings are denounced but not ignored - The Washington Post:

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EDUCATION: In Depth analysis Atlanta School Cheating

Cheating report confirms teacher's suspicions - CNN.com:

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EDUCATION: Good Grades for teachers -- Why!

MinnPost - Americans adore teachers and think schools are doing quite well:

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MILITARY: Top Secret America

Top Secret America: Who is TSA? | washingtonpost.com:

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‘MILITQRY: The JSOC Srory

‘Top Secret America’: A look at the military’s Joint Special Operations Command - The Washington Post:

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MILITARY: CIA Counter Terrorism Drone War

CIA shifts focus to killing targets - The Washington Post:

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IMMIGRATION: If nothing else, Republicans dead on, RE: Illegal Immigration

Illegal immigration is flash point for Republican White House hopefuls - The Washington Post:

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ECONOMY: Hiring a big fat zero in August 2011

Hiring grinds to halt in August, U.S. data show - Economic Report - MarketWatch:

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EDUCATION: Nw Jersey implements major anti-bullying legislation

Bullying Law Puts New Jersey Schools on Spot - NYTimes.com:

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