{"id":4176,"date":"2009-10-19T06:50:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T06:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/19\/links-for-2009-10-19\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T06:50:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T06:50:47","slug":"links-for-2009-10-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/19\/links-for-2009-10-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-10-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/15\/AR2009101503477.html?referrer=facebook\">Patrick Welsh &#8212; To Explain the Achievement Gap, Examine the Parenting Gap &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;My students knew intuitively that the reason they were lagging academically had nothing to do with race, which is the too-handy explanation for the achievement gap in Alexandria. And it wasn&#8217;t because the school system had failed them. They knew that excuses about a lack of resources and access just didn&#8217;t wash at the new, state-of-the-art, $100 million T.C. Williams, where every student is given a laptop and where there is open enrollment in Advanced Placement and honors courses. Rather, it was because their parents just weren&#8217;t there for them &#8212; at least not in the same way that parents of kids who were doing well tended to be. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/race\">race<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/diversity\">diversity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/vandal-from-outer-space\/article1327607\/\">Meteorite smashed family&#8217;s SUV &#8211; The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;For two weeks, the rocks sat on a beige plastic table outside the Garchinskis&#8217; front door. It wasn&#8217;t until she watched the news a couple of weeks later that Ms. Garchinski connected the object to the bright fireball that lit up the night sky the evening before the windshield was smashed.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/highclearing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/10\/18\/10118\">Ash Nazg Thrakatuluk \u00c2\u00a7 Unqualified Offerings<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;So I walked out [after an opera] tonight saying &#8220;Wow, I solved so many equations tonight!&#8221; while everybody else was critiquing the vocalists.  But  it&#8217;s true, I did solve some equations.  In fact, I think I may be very close to a major result in my research, a result that will settle a lot of issues.  This was so good for me that my wife and I have resolved to start going to musical performances a lot more often. &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/music\">music<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/unqualified-offerings\">unqualified-offerings<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/visualfunhouse.com\/uncategorized\/the-invisible-man-optical-illusion.html\">Optical Illusions by Visual Fun House : Blog Topic : The Invisible Man Optical Illusion<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The Invisible man is a specular optical illusion. Unlike the original invisible man this guy actually painted himself using body paint to match his surrounding. The first one below is one of my favorites, at a glance you would completely miss him!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/art\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pictures\">pictures<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Welsh &#8212; To Explain the Achievement Gap, Examine the Parenting Gap &#8211; washingtonpost.com &#8220;My students knew intuitively that the reason they were lagging academically had nothing to do with race, which is the too-handy explanation for the achievement gap in Alexandria. And it wasn&#8217;t because the school system had failed them. 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