{"id":5820,"date":"2011-08-17T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/17\/is-rick-perry-a-sucker\/"},"modified":"2011-08-17T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T08:00:20","slug":"is-rick-perry-a-sucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/08\/17\/is-rick-perry-a-sucker\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-08-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/slacktivist\/2011\/08\/16\/is-rick-perry-a-sucker-or-was-he-just-lying\/'>Is Rick Perry a &#8216;sucker,&#8217; or was he just lying? | slacktivist<\/a>\n<p>&quot;Maybe he really believed that. Maybe the single example of &#8220;stifling regulations&#8221; that he chose for his stump speech was some wild rumor that, despite being a state governor, he never bothered to check into or to have an aide check into. Maybe he is as naive and gullible and prone to misplaced knee-jerk indignation as the Facebook fools denouncing stories from The Onion thinking they&#8217;re true.<\/p>\n<p> But for that to be true, Rick Perry would have to be really lazy and really gullible.<\/p>\n<p> It seems far likelier that Rick Perry was just assuming that his audience was that lazy, that gullible, that naive and that prone to misplaced, knee-jerk indignation.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/46885'>China-US neutrino facility opens &#8211; physicsworld.com<\/a>\n<p>&quot;The first major science project in China that has been built through a genuine international collaboration has begun operation. Once fully complete next year, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment &#8211; a partnership between 19 Chinese and 16 US universities &#8211; will begin searching for the final undetermined neutrino &quot;mixing angle&quot;, known as \u00ce\u00b813.<br \/> Neutrinos are difficult to detect because they interact weakly with matter. They come in three &quot;flavours&quot; &#8211; electron, muon and tau &#8211; that change or &quot;oscillate&quot; from one to another as they travel in space. The oscillation strength between different types of neutrino is characterized by three &quot;mixing angles&quot; &#8211; known as \u00ce\u00b812, \u00ce\u00b823 and \u00ce\u00b813 &#8211; with Daya Bay designed to determine \u00ce\u00b813 by measuring the disappearance of electron antineutrinos.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/tfk\/2011\/08\/firing_bad_teachers_doesnt_cre.php?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThoughtsFromKansas+%28Thoughts+from+Kansas%29'>Firing bad teachers doesn&#8217;t create good teachers : Thoughts from Kansas<\/a>\n<p>&quot;I&#8217;m prepared to grant that there are good teachers and bad teachers (though the problem of bad teachers seems massively exaggerated in the policy debate). I&#8217;m prepared to grant that good teachers can be distinguished from worse teachers, and that there really are teachers who &quot;need improvement.&quot; Let&#8217;s assume we have ways to identify those teachers.<br \/> Should a teacher who is judged to persistently &quot;need improvement&quot; for many years be fired? Unless those laws come with funding to provide in-service training to those lagging teachers, and mentoring and review from master teachers, and paid prep time to rework lesson plans and practice and develop new skills, I don&#8217;t see how we can expect those teachers to improve to any significant degree. Assuming that we&#8217;ve got the tools to accurately identify teachers who need some help, that identification has to be matched with some sort of actual help, if we&#8217;re going to attach penalties.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/jobs-content-producer.html'>NOVA | Careers<\/a>\n<p>&quot;WGBH seeks an experienced content producer to create content for NOVA Education&#8217;s innovative new project, NOVA Labs. NOVA Labs will be a virtual research platform for teens to engage in science by working with authentic data and taking part in &quot;citizen science&quot; projects. Individual Labs in a range of STEM research areas will encourage scientific thinking and be supported by NOVA&#8217;s rich media library, explanatory text, interactives, games, a social media platform, and more.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Rick Perry a &#8216;sucker,&#8217; or was he just lying? | slacktivist &quot;Maybe he really believed that. Maybe the single example of &#8220;stifling regulations&#8221; that he chose for his stump speech was some wild rumor that, despite being a state governor, he never bothered to check into or to have an aide check into. 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