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Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? 1010

Posted by samzenpus from the no-math-for-you dept.
Capt.Albatross writes "Andrew Hacker, a professor of Political Science at the City University of New York and author of Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids — and What We Can Do About It, attempts to answer this question in the negative in today's New York Times Sunday Review. His primary claim is that mathematics requirements are prematurely and unreasonably limiting the level of education available to otherwise capable students ."
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Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious 625

Posted by samzenpus from the why-are-you-different? dept.
bs0d3 writes "According to this article printed in tagesspiegel.de, not having a Facebook account could be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.(German) As examples they use Norwegian shooter Anders Breivik, who used MySpace instead of Facebook and the newer Aurora shooter who used adultfriendfinder instead of Facebook. They already consider those with Facebook accounts, who lack friends to be suspicious, but now they are suggesting that anyone who abstains from Facebook altogether may be even more suspicious."

Comment Re:Now see, it's hyperbole like this (Score 1) 462

by spidercoz (#40776391) Attached to: Is There Still a Ray of Hope On Climate Change?
People like you are the reason we can't have reasonable discourse in this country anymore.

"Democrat delenda est" Really? I'd tell you to go fuck yourself dickhead, but clearly your head is so far up your ass it would be redundant. Try cutting the inflammatory rhetoric bullshit and actually LISTENING for once. Maybe actually think about viewpoints that disagree with your own. Open your fucking mind.
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Is There Still a Ray of Hope On Climate Change? 462

Posted by Soulskill from the let-the-kids-deal-with-it dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "David Leonhardt writes in the NY Times that even as the U.S. endures its warmest year on record (the 13 warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998), the country seems to be moving further away from doing something about climate change, with the issue having all but fallen out of the national debate. But behind the scenes, a different story is emerging that offers reason for optimism: the world's largest economies may be in the process of creating a climate-change response that does not depend on the politically painful process of raising the price of dirty energy. Despite some high-profile flops, like ethanol and Solyndra, clean-energy investments seem to be succeeding more than they are failing. 'The price of solar and wind power have both fallen sharply in the last few years. This country's largest wind farm, sprawling across eastern Oregon, is scheduled to open next month. Already, the world uses vastly more alternative energy than experts predicted only a decade ago,' writes Leonhardt. Natural gas, the use of which has jumped 25 percent since 2008 while prices have fallen more than 80 percent, now generates as much electricity as coal in the United States, which would have been unthinkable not long ago. Thanks in part to earlier government investments, energy companies have been able to extract much more natural gas than once seemed possible which, while far from perfectly clean, is less carbon-intensive than coal use. The clean-energy push has been successful enough to leave many climate advocates believing it is the single best hope for preventing even hotter summers, concludes Leonhardt, adding that while a cap-and-trade program faces an uphill political battle, an investment program that aims to make alternative energy less expensive is more politically feasible. 'Our best hope,' says Benjamin H. Strauss, 'is some kind of disruptive technology that takes off on its own, the way the Internet and the fax took off.'"

Comment Re:Hey Apple (Score 0, Redundant) 377

Yes, shame on them for actually producing a product that is a threat to the Apple monopoly. Hundreds of tablets on the market that until recently have been largely garbage and have sold as such. Then one comes along that can actually compete. Well fuck that. Kill it with lawyers.

I'd be willing to bet that defense lawyer couldn't tell the difference between a Mac and a PC either.

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I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"

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