Category: Links Dump

Children’s early academic and attention skills best predict later school success “Behavior problems, lack of social skills not linked with later achievement.” This is described as “surprising,” and I can’t for the life of me see why. (tags: academia education news) Cocktail Party Physics: the photon has two faces Particle-wave duality, with bonus Paris Hilton… Continue reading links for 2007-11-14

Matthew Yglesias (November 11, 2007) – Journalism as Sadism (Media) Why “Meet the Press” is well-nigh unwatchable. (tags: news politics journalism television US blogs) The Daily Politics John Sweeney continues to show the fine grasp of political calculation that led him to be photographed at a local frat party… (tags: politics US stupid) Easily Distracted… Continue reading links for 2007-11-13

ESPN Page 2 – The Sports Guy: Sore winner Comparing the Pats to the Allied POWs in Victory isn’t over-the-top, is it? (tags: football sports silly movies) The Associated Press: Donors Bid Millions NOT to Rename School The proper way to fend off unappealing naming rights problems (tags: sports academia economics)

The Associated Press: Judge Rules on What Makes a Poem “Keenan’s 79-page decision included legal and literary history. He offered a brief description of Parker — “the famous writer who was a member of the Algonquin Round Table” — and a detailed summary of what constitutes a poem.” (tags: culture literature books law) Two-Proton Correlations… Continue reading links for 2007-11-10

Robert Donoghue – Hunting Vegetarians with Ted Nugent Anthony Bourdain rediscovers Furr’s Law (tags: food blogs computing society silly) Dynamics of Cats : “Rocketeers” – a Review This is exactly rocket science (tags: space books review) NOVA | Intelligent Design on Trial | PBS We’ll see if I remember to watch this (tags: biology education… Continue reading links for 2007-11-09

ABC News: Police: Students Used Cookies to Torture “Ill. College Students Accused of Kidnapping, Battery With Freshly Baked Cookies” The world is a strange and disturbing place. (tags: news stupid drugs) mmcirvin: A strange map: UFO sightings in the US Why don’t people in the South see UFO’s? (tags: space science silly US) The National… Continue reading links for 2007-11-08

The Claim: Zinc Can Help You Beat a Cold – New York Times Old joke: With our product, you can cure a cold in just seven days, but left untreated, it could linger for a week! (tags: medicine science) Tara Parker-Pope on Health – Teenagers and Sex – New York Times “The lesson for public… Continue reading links for 2007-11-07

Gesturing helps grade-schoolers solve math problems Hand-waving is the key to any calculation. (tags: academia education math) Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » In Which I Pick Some Nits A historian reads Novik’s Temeraire books. (tags: books SF) slacktivist: Gay-Hatin’ Gospel (pt. 5) The conclusion of the series: “I think it has very little to… Continue reading links for 2007-11-06

Recommendations of SFWA Copyright Exploratory Committee How… distressingly sensible. Where’s the train wreck I’ve come to expect from SFWA? (tags: SF books) Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Unparadox Contest “[T]he Birthday Unparadox: ‘If you put three people in a room, chances are no two of them will have the same birthday.’” (tags: physics math silly… Continue reading links for 2007-11-05

Children’s friendships matter in the scramble for secondary schools “Until now, work in this area has had little emphasis on children’s own experiences.” Everything that’s wrong with education research, in one short sentence. (tags: education psychology society) Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: New Numbers on Underrepresented… Continue reading links for 2007-11-02