Is the U.S. Education System Producing a Society of “Smart Fools”? June 2nd, 2017 Via: Scientific American: Tests like the SAT, ACT, the GRE—what I call the alphabet tests—are reasonably good measures of academic kinds of knowledge, plus general intelligence and related skills. They […]
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Paris, Brussels, Nice, Berlin, Manchester… The Role of “Massive Casualty Producing Events”. The Roadmap to a Police State?
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Jay Z Producing Documentary Series on ‘Race’ After Trump Election
Jay Z Producing Documentary Series on ‘Race’ After Trump Election Breitbart April 21, 2017 National Geographic Channel announced a new collaboration Thursday with The Weinstein Company and Jay Z called Race, a six-part documentary series that will offer a stark and provocative look into systemic injustices in America. According to Variety, the project will feature […]
Russian plane loaded with relief aid arrives in Damascus
The act seeks to enhance Syrians’ steadfastness in facing the terrorist war and the unjust economic embargo imposed on them by some Arab, Regional and world countries. Director of Damascus sector at the Russian center for reconciliation Yuri Zrayev told reporters that the plane is loaded with humanitarian aid including relief materials and requirements for […]
Cloudy with a chance of life: How to find alien life on distant exoplanets
The light shining through an exoplanet’s atmosphere can give us a hint of whether the planet supports life. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) How do you go about hunting for life on another planet elsewhere in our galaxy? A useful starting point is to imagine looking from afar for signs of life on […]
High-tech classrooms aren’t producing higher grades
By Matt RichtelNYT September 4, 2011 The class, and the Kyrene School District as a whole, offer what some see as a utopian vision of education’s future. Classrooms are decked out with laptops, big interactive screens and software that drills students on every basic subject. Under a ballot initiative approved in 2005, the district […]