Yet this study doesn't seem to support that. It would be interesting to see a similar study done that draws a distinction based on the exact reason for rejecting the theory of evolution.

I've been saying for years that not accepting the theory of evolution doesn't mean a person can't perform scientific work. Now there's some scientific evidence to back it up. I wonder if people will be scientific about this now and drop the idea that those who do not accept the theory of evolution are somehow hindering scientific progress.

I read the entire article and still don't know what Amazon wants. Apparently they just like to be mean, according to the author.

Way to go injecting politics into the discussion. FTFA:

The other opinion of that is that Crimea has the right to secede and receive help from Putin or anybody they please. Thank you for making it harder for me to listen to you objectively by dropping a political dispute into this.

You might also be interested in the very thought-provoking rules and procedures Arthur Robinson used with his children. You might not want to do things at all his way, but you still might like to think about what he has to say, especially about math.

http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/view/rc/s31p59.htm

http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/view/rc/s31p60.htm

Here are an algebra book and a geometry book that I thought were very good. In 7th grade I went to a summer math program that used these. For the upper courses they used all the other books in the series that contains the algebra book, but I haven't checked those out yet.

http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-I-Expressions-Equations-Applications/dp/0201860945/ref=pd_sim_b_5/002-3278004-1006461 http://www.amazon.com/Geometry-McDougal-Littell-Jurgensen/dp/0395977274/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=156P3DE9N61MT1DC9G5D

Oddly enough the geometry book was from a different series. My public school used that series for both algebra and geometry, and I did not think highly of the algebra book.

A better resource for you might be to check out a homeschool bookfair if you can. Go now while your child is 4, just to look. Go back next year with a little money, and as your child gets older, go back with more and more money (and you'll have lots of knowledge by then about what you want to buy!)

I had a pre-calculus and calculus teacher in high school who spent most of her time bragging on how enlightened our school's calculus education methods were. This was remarked on all the time - we skipped a lot of stuff that was supposed to be bad ways of teaching, and we now permitted graphing calculators, and I don't know what all else was supposed to make it wonderful.

Now our school was actually a Texas "Blue Ribbon" math school, which means on some level we were considered to have a superior math education program. But personally I read all the material in our textbook that was skipped, and I helped a lot of my friends who were struggling - and I did it by reteaching them the same thing from different points of view until they got it, utilizing both the "modern" teaching we'd received in class and the skipped book material. (I believe at one point I even borrowed my dad's college Calculus text from the 1960s as well.)

For all the noise that was made about how great our teaching was, there were a lot of people struggling, and they benefited from hearing the "bad" instructional methods that we were bragging we were skipping.

My kids are homeschooled, and one of the first things I started doing when we made this decision was accumulating a math textbook library. The thought of being able to teach kids math myself instead of throwing them to the mercy of whatever educational fads are being bragged about in a few years was part of what made the homeschooling decision so appealing.

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No smart anything. Just 1080p or 2196p, various sizes. Good prices. Good picture. No camera. No mic. No spyware. No need to hook it to the internet. A TV, not a computer, at least not the kind of computer the others want you to have. A 4K 30fps 39 inch display/TV for $499? Bit more for more screen space. Why not? Good enough for movies.

No one. But the blame isn't the CEO's, which is all that matters.

And bosses love employees who live in terror of losing their jobs at any time. Keeps the complaints and wages down. And you still get to sack them, in the end. And get a bonus and a raise.

The problems which ensue are the cloud company's problem, so win-win-win-win for the MBAs.

The decision will be made by MBAs. Sanity has little to do with it.

I have a mental image of the cloud servers being managed by a gaggle of nearly-homeless sysadmins the IT manager picks up in an unmarked van every morning at five in front of the local Home Depot.

I replace the word "cloud" with mainframe. 'Cause that's what a mainframe is. Amazing to think that the Hollywood movie script writers are getting it right by accident now.

And yup, it means a lot of people are out of jobs. Nope, it doesn't mean they work for the mainframe companies, as they obviously don't require as much staff. And a boon for the NSA, FBI, IRS and other Three Letter Names, as now we are all nicely lined up like humans in a Matrix power tower, oblivious to the complete exposure of our data to any schmuck with power who wants to access it.