Daily Archives: September 7, 2013
Homework debate: Too much, too little or busy work? – CNN.com
A 2012 study found no relationship between the amount of time spent on homework and grades, but did find a positive link between homework and performance on standardized tests. A 2006 analysis of homework studies found a link between time spent on homework and achievement, but found it was much stronger in secondary school versus… Read More »
Author Argues Colleges Focus More on Professional Training Than Transformation | PBS NewsHour | Sept. 4, 2013 | PBS
JEFFREY BROWN: “If you want an education, the odds aren’t with you, JEFFREY BROWN: You add a larger level. You write: “Midway through the last decade, the 20th century, American higher education changed. Colleges and universities entered a new phase in which they stopped being intellectually driven and culturally oriented and began to model themselves… Read More »
N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web – NYTimes.com
The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents. The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling,… Read More »
Why Wives love to get away with shit behind your back:
People who think they can get away with cheating can lead to a “cheater’s high,” U.S. researchers suggest. Many predicted they would feel bad after cheating, but they didn’t – UPI.com.
What the FAT girls really want from the Skinny Bitches: Their poop
Yes, another great story of fecal transplants solving all the worlds problems. Gut Bacteria From Thin Humans Can Slim Mice Down – NYTimes.com.
BBC News – Sleep ‘boosts brain cell numbers’
BBC News – Sleep ‘boosts brain cell numbers’.
Idiot neuro Surgeons
Idiot neuro surgeons that know better use equipment that was “cleaned” using methods we have know damm well for over 40 years do not work to kill MAD COW DISEASE or CJD in humans just keep charging for killing off their patients. At least with this act of manslaughter the victim lives long enough to… Read More »
Tropical storm Gabrielle fizzles: Why has hurricane season been so calm? (+video) – CSMonitor.com
CAN ANYONE SAY “GLOBAL COOLING”? Tropical storm Gabrielle fizzles: Why has hurricane season been so calm? (+video) Tropical storm Gabrielle was the seventh Atlantic tropical cyclone this season, but no hurricanes have yet formed, which is unusual. Another 10 hurricane-free days would set a record. And here is why: Now go google Landscheidt Cycles and… Read More »