http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12543,605627,00.html

SHOULD WE BE TREATING NONMEDICAL CONDITIONS WITH EXPENSIVE AND POTENTIALLY HARMFUL THERAPIES? WHAT ARE THE ETHICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF THESE THERAPIES? ANY OTHER EXAMPLES YOU ( Read more... )

"Educators in the schools using MI express beliefs that all children can learn, all children can succeed, and, that all children have strengths. Children bring these strengths or gifts to school, and it is the educators' job to enable these gifts to be fully realized. For example, Chris Mann, the head of the Jessie Wowk School, commented that with ( Read more... )

"This scholarship program is administered by Scholarship Management Services, a department of Scholarship America. Scholarship America is a national nonprofit educational support and student aid service organization that seeks to involve and assist the private sector in expanding educational opportunities and encouraging educational achievement. ( Read more... )

Yes. I know. I should be working on the project for tonight. And I have worked on it for about an hour already this morning, and will complete what is expected of me.

But at the moment, I'm removing my focus from it to return clear. And I'm reading about Jung's Thoughts on Life After Death. Which I find fascinating, because I'd been told by a ( Read more... )

http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312238/cgi-bin/view.cgi?url=disorders_migraines"Compared to other conditions, migraines are rather benign and can be treated through simple practices. As stress is a substantial contributor to the cause of ( Read more... )

Wayway back in my first quarter at IADT, there was An Ugly Incident.

I was calmly sittin' in telecom class. (Jeff Keir taught it.) And when we came back from break one night, he mentioned that in the classroom nextdoor, they were showin' The Wizard of Oz. His suggestion was that we should go press our faces against the glass and maybe they'd ( Read more... )

A few months ago I came across an article about smoking where the author - stating no supporting studies, only that they exist - suggested smoking can cause mental illness. (I bitched about it hereIf the health problems involved in smoking are being mentioned, comment that, on the other hand, it helps prevent Alzheimer's. I can predict with at ( Read more... )

Jumped over to Science Daily:
New Research Suggests That When Children Ask 'What Is This?' They May Seek An Object's FunctionIn the way magic eye posters simultaneously hide and reveal the main point of the picture, new research suggests that children might well be asking more than their simply-worded questions seem to indicate ( Read more... )

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Takin' a break from the LAN project.
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