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:

'via Blog this'

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.