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random and unrelated things
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/11/gripes-of-roth-nobel-prize-literature - hah, hah, Roth doesn't deserve it anyway ( Read more... ) -
new about the marshmallow test
http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=4622
still, it doesn't explain the lower SAT and other results for the "eat right away" group in the previous study. too bad there's no way to assess the stability of their environments by going back in time. -
since I obsess about school vs. packed lunches, this euro news bit pissed me off to no end
http://www.thelocal.se/43656/20121006/
A lunch lady at a school in central Sweden has been told to stop baking fresh bread and to cut back on her wide-ranging veggie buffets because it was unfair to students at other schools...
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arts = "leftist hobbies"... don't they have it backwards?
I really don't understand politics anymore. Did the right and left switch places at some point, and I didn't notice?
The populist Freedom Party who lent their support to the coalition dismissed the arts as "leftist hobbies". It is a phrase that caught on and many feel has damaged public perception of the value of culture in the Netherlands. ( Read more... ) -
about law professors
Anti-obesity: The new homophobia?
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/28/anti_obesity_the_new_homophobia/
Telling fat people they ought to be thin is about as helpful as telling gay people they should be straight
By Paul Campos
Paul Campos is a professor of ( Read more... ) -
this is not The Onion?
Is Algebra Necessary? By ANDREW HACKER
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-necessary.html?_r=2&smid=fb-share
Making mathematics mandatory prevents us from discovering and developing young talent. In ( Read more... )
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