HS teachers given list of suggestions on how to dumb-down tests to improve state test grades

Seeded on Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:34 AM EDT (Reddut,cin)

They talk and talk about improving our state test grades, but once the news cameras are gone this is how they really want us to run our classes - make them so easy everyone can pass without doing any work at all.

education, high-school, state-test

FarmVillains

Seeded on Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:04 AM EDT (sfweekly.com)

Interviews conducted by SF Weekly with several former Zynga workers indicate that the practice of stealing other companies' game ideas — and then using Zynga's market clout to crowd out the games' originators — was business as usual.

technology, games, farmville, sf-weekly, zynga

Religious Search Engines Yield Tailored Results

Seeded on Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:29 AM EDT (NPR)

Some Jews, Muslims and Christians are abandoning Yahoo and Google and turning to search engines with results that meet their religious standards.

google, technology, search-engine

Update on the Colbert Rally: Let's show our strength and help a good cause

Seeded on Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:53 PM EDT (Reddut,cin)

The drive to organize a Stephen Colbert rally continues to snowball. The community wants to show that it's not just another lame Internet petition.

politics, reddit, colbert-rally

Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by WikiLeaks

Seeded on Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:06 AM EDT (Wired News)

A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed.

iraq, defense-department, world-news, wikileaks

"Obamacare" worked today

Seeded on Wed Sep 1, 2010 11:08 AM EDT (Reddut,cin)

My mom has been trying to get health care for years. She's 57 years old, has rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and congestive heart failure. As bad as that may sound, these are all very treatable conditions if you have insurance.

politics, healthcare, health-insurance

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Nearly one million children in U.S. potentially misdiagnosed with ADHD

Seeded on Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:37 AM EDT (Science Daily)

Nearly 1 million children in the United States are potentially misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder simply because they are the youngest -- and most immature -- in their kindergarten class, according to new research by a Michigan State University economist.

health, children, adhd, medication, ritalin

Swedes Protect WikiLeaks, Hire Assange as Columnist

Seeded on Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:54 AM EDT (mathaba.net)

Julian Assange's visit in the Swedish capital achieved several things. Assange will be writing for Aftonbladet and WikiLeaks will be applying for full source protection under Swedish constitutional law.

media, politics, press, aftonbladet, wikileaks, julian-assange

US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign

Seeded on Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:22 AM EDT (tamunews.tamu.edu)

Texas A&M University researchers... have found that not fully understanding the "equal sign" in a math problem could be a key to why U.S. students underperform their peers from other countries in math.

education, math

WikiLeaks War Logs Turned Into Illustrated Afghan Meltdown

Seeded on Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:59 AM EDT (Wired News)

It's one thing to read about individual Taliban attacks in WikiLeaks' trove of war logs. It's something quite different to see the bombings and the shootings mount, and watch the insurgency metastasize.

afghanistan, taliban, politics, war, wikileaks

Logging Off: The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World

Seeded on Mon Aug 9, 2010 11:21 AM EDT (SPIEGEL ONLINE)

They may have been dubbed the "Internet generation," but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the majority of children and teenagers are not the Web-savvy digital natives of legend.

technology, web-2-0, internet, blogging, facebook, social-web, net-generation

Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games

Seeded on Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:34 AM EDT (jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)

This blog post is about the bright side of software piracy. It's about the times when not only is it OK to steal my games, but, in fact, I get something out of it. Perhaps an unusual topic for a blog post from a game developer.

technology, piracy, video-games, software-developer

FBI May Get Easier Access To Everyone's Internet Activity

Seeded on Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:41 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.

fbi, internet, homeland-security, justice-department, obama, us-news, national-security-letter

Should Microsoft cut out the middlemen and build its own phones?

Seeded on Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:23 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

Microsoft has a long and illustrious history of operating system sales. The model has served the company well on the PC, but if it wants to make money in the phone market, it needs to start thinking like a consumer electronics company. That means selling Microsoft phones.

technology, phones, microsoft, windows, windows-mobile, operating-systems

Livingston, Louisiana, School Board might OK teaching creationism

Seeded on Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:47 AM EDT (2theadvocate.com)

The Livingston Parish School Board will begin exploring the possibility of incorporating the teaching of "creationism" in the public school system's science classes.

evolution, education, louisiana, school, creationism, livingston-parish-school-board

Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:11 AM EDT (gothamist.com)

It seems the Empire has fallen on hard times. Presumably to get finishing funds for his latest Death Star, Darth Vader—or a man pretending to be Darth Vader?—was reduced to robbing a bank on Long Island this morning.

bank, odd-news, long-island, bank-robbery, chase-bank

The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer... Served Inside a Squirrel

Seeded on Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:09 PM EDT (asylum.com)

Our old buddies BrewDog have done it again. Not content with winning back the "strongest beer in the world" title last February with its Sink the Bismarck!, they've now upped their game with a new brew that is 55 percent alcohol by volume and carries a $765 price tag.

odd-news, beer, taxidermy, brewdog

Possibilities for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

Seeded on Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:42 AM EDT (theoildrum.com)

Pick up almost any book about nuclear energy and you will find that the prevailing wisdom is that nuclear plants must be very large in order to be competitive. This assumption is widely accepted, but, if its roots are understood, it can be effectively challenged.

science, nuclear-power, nuclear-reactor

Google bows to China's censorship demands

Seeded on Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:34 AM EDT (The Sydney Morning Herald)

China renewed Google's internet licence after it pledged to obey censorship laws and stop automatically switching mainland users to its unfiltered Hong Kong site, an official said.

google, technology, china, internet, censorship, search-engine

National guardsman faces 16 years in jail because he videotaped police pulling a gun on him during a traffic stop

Seeded on Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:42 AM EDT (ABC News)

That Anthony Graber broke the law in early March is indisputable. He raced his Honda motorcycle down Interstate 95 in Maryland at 80 mph, popping a wheelie, roaring past cars and swerving across traffic lanes.

police, law, national-guard, us-news, youtube, videotape

Microsoft Tries to Pay Content Providers to 'De-index' from Google

Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:45 AM EST (OSNews)

It is no secret that Microsoft is doing whatever it can to eat away at Google's immense market share of the search market, with Bing being its most ambitious effort yet.

google, technology, internet, microsoft, rupert-murdoch, news-corp, search-engines

Germany refuses to hand over murderer to France. Father of the girl kidnaps the killer and leaves him tied up in front of French court.

Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:51 AM EDT (The Age)

A GERMAN doctor who went on the run after poisoning his lover's 14-year-old daughter more than 27 years ago has been found, bound and gagged, outside a French court. The girl's father has been arrested on suspicion of kidnap.

germany, france, murder, world-news

"The key to success apparently is getting Jon Stewart to bad-mouth your product."

Seeded on Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:32 PM EDT (grandforksherald.com)

On his Feb. 25 show, Stewart slapped a jar of Baconnaise on his faux news desk during his commentary about President Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress.

business, television, jon-stewart, the-daily-show

Capitalist Case For Nonprofit Health Insurance

Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:58 PM EDT (Forbes)

If you want to know what went wrong with our health care system and the best way to fix it, all you have to do is look back a few decades to a time when health care was a community concern, considered as essential as any public utility.

politics, health-care, health-insurance, nonprofit