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Comment Re:Users. (Score 1) 210

by ClayTapes (#31612854) Attached to: Millions Continue To Click On Spam
Using mass media to educate the masses is an idea that I find truly horrifying. Orwellian nightmare. Humans have a right to be ignorant. It's easy to see how the slippery slop argument might go here. If people are educated by a single source, they all do things the same way, lack of individualism and inoovation etc. etc.
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Student Arrested For Classroom Texting 1246

Posted by samzenpus from the the-strong-arm-of-the-education-system dept.
A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after she refused to stop texting during a high school math class. The girl denied having a phone when confronted by a school safety officer, but a female cop found it after frisking her. The Samsung Cricket was recovered "from the buttocks area" of the teenager, according to the police report. The girl was banned from school property for a week, and is scheduled for an April 20 court appearance for a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. I applaud the adults involved for their discretion and temperance in this heinous case of texting without permission.
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Submission + - Autism Reversed at MIT Lab (bbc.co.uk)

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ClayTapes writes: "It seems that scientists at MIT have been able to reverse the effects of autism and some forms of mental retardation in mice caused by fregile X chromosomes. They do so by targetting an enzyme that changes the structure of connections between brain cells. The treatment actually repairs these structural abnormalities which suggests that it may be possible to reverse the effects in children who already show symptoms. Article here."

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