RELIGION: In Atheists we distrust

An explanation for the distrust and dislike  of atheists

COMPUTING: Resources for learning programming

So You Want to Learn to Program?

EVOLUTION A Turning point in understanding evolution

Epigenetics = A Tuning point in understanding Heredity

EDUCATION: Impact of teacher excellence

The difference between a strong teacher and a weak teacher lasts a lifetime.

EDUCATION: Online schools have rapid growth

Why Is Public Education Being Outsourced to Online Charter Schools?

OPED: The Real Republicans

Worker's of the World, Unite!

MILITARY: Panetta to Offer Strategy for Cutting Military Budget

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 budget, 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.

UNEMPLOYMENT: Tje impact of personal technology on the workplace

The Year of the Multitaskers’ Revenge

THE UNEMPLOYMENT DIVIDE The overall unemployment rate 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.
Consider, too, that less than 30 percent of the United States population age 25 or older has a bachelor’s degree or higher. Large groups of Americans will continue to be unemployed or underemployed unless more training and educational opportunities become available.

 

EDUCATION: Illegal Religion continues in Public Schools

Battling Anew Over the Place of Religion in Public Schools

The Hormone Surge of Middle Childhood

VIEWED superficially, the part of youth that the psychologist Jean Piaget called middle childhood looks tame and uneventful, a quiet patch of road on the otherwise hairpin highway to adulthood.

PSYCHOLOGY: Bullying a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon

The Origins of Bullying | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network:

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COMPUTING: IBM gets closer to making a computer into a brain

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.

EDUCATION: Classroom Analytics new tool for college success

The use of granular data regarding student performance is enhancing the college learning experience.

NEUROSCIENCE: Seeking, wanting mechanisms linked to neurotransmitters

An explanation of the Seeking and Wanting mechanisms as linked to Dopamine vs, opioids. Important implications for Education

EDUCATION: The failure of standardized testing

A successful adult with demonstrated problem solving ability fails a reading/math test given to 10th graders.

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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