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Get Comfortable

Look at the last “Age” in this from xkcd: If you are young, have hope, there is life after 55! If you are over 55, don’t be left out! BTW, there are some out there who are com­fort­able admit­ing just how much sex … Con­tinue read­ing

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Why Standardized Testing Is Killing Education

For many years, the com­mon polit­i­cal belief has been that our soci­ety would ben­e­fit by requir­ing pub­lic schools to train stu­dents to pass stan­dard­ized tests. Gen­er­ally this has meant that teach­ers must spend a sig­nif­i­cant, if not a major­ity, of … Con­tinue read­ing

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Assignments or Offered Opportunities

Some­times I feel very much like a stranger in a strange land. I know that there are gen­er­a­tional dif­fer­ences between those of my age and the younger sci­en­tists and engi­neers I work with and advise. But some of them occa­sion­ally … Con­tinue read­ing

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UK Science: Does It Have a Future?

We all knew this was com­ing, but the UK will pay the price for gen­er­a­tions to come. New Sci­en­tist is report­ing: So the axe has not fallen on British sci­ence — at least for now. Unveil­ing the UK coali­tion government’s long-awaited … Con­tinue read­ing

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It Is All Relative

From: xkcd (http://xkcd.com/751/) Swim­suit Issue We all for­get that our kids have a frame of ref­er­ence that is dif­fer­ent from ours. Some­times it is for the good, and some­times it is for the bad. But it is usu­ally dif­fer­ent. What shocks … Con­tinue read­ing

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Misguided Parental Censorship

Amer­i­cans love Free­dom of Speech, Free­dom of Press, that is they love it so long as it does not offend their Puri­tan ethics. Accord­ing to The Orlando Sen­tinel: Long­wood, FL par­ent, Tina Harden, was so dis­turbed by ref­er­ences to sex … Con­tinue read­ing

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Not My Kids

Peo­ple can be so blind to bio­log­i­cal real­ity. When faced with real­i­ties of life that they find incon­ve­nient to believe they just chose to sus­pend logic. As reported be Jes­sica O’Reilly on the site Car­nal Nation, a new study by … Con­tinue read­ing

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When It Is More than Love

Still Here Too has been away vis­it­ing artist friends for a lit­tle over a week (not all that many days but it seems like way too many to me!) Over our many years together, there have been many times that … Con­tinue read­ing

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