without following the link, i would assume that she means to eliminate live dissections in high school classes. i think everyone(i would hope) recognizes that while such dissections are important for students studying medecine, they're not necessary for first year bio students. technology these days has provided us with computer simulations of dissections that are more cost-effective in the long-run, anyway.
count me in as someone with no sense of humor. seeing real-life people get angry and confrontational isn't funny to me. it just makes me uncomfortable.
who the hell am i supposed to talk to now? what i got out of this article is that i'd better be better off being a lesbian if i want to hold a discussion with my partner.
what an interesting and insightful article. coming from south carolina, we usually blame our 50% drop-out rate on poverty. per this article, parental involvement seems to have more influence than monetary status, but i'd be interested to learn the educational levels of the parents in question. an immigrant who recieved secondary or higher education in their home country may be more likely to encourage their kids to succeed. in this state, many of the kids dropping out of school have parents that dropped out, and their parents before them dropped out, etc, etc.
i still think viacom needs to be slapped with a class action lawsuit. they're supposed to notify every single user whose data they're looking at, according to the original law the judge tweaked to allow youtube to fall under rules for places like blockbuster.
a lot of this has to do with poverty, especially in the south. healthy food is more expensive than food that's bad for you. healthy food also takes more time to prepare. perhaps when these issues are addressed, we'll see obesity drop. until then, all the trans fat bans in the world won't stop people from getting fat.
i have a huge problem with these laws, because they don't adress the real problem: talking on the phone while driving is distracting. period. having two free hands doesn't change that one whit. in college, i was almost ran over four or five times by people on cell phones who were blatantly ignoring traffic laws(running lights, not yielding to right of way traffic, etc). again, having an extra free hand isn't going to keep these people from running a light. we need to just face the fact that engaging in other activities while you are driving is dangerous.
i'm not having this problem. i've never been able to read long articles on the internet, because i don't like staring at the screen that long, or with that much focus. regular books though...i read them at the same rate i always have, one every week or so. i much prefer a real book to the internet, so i can't imagine not being able to read a book.
the only thing i've noticed in this vein is that it's hard for me to sit down and watch whole movies in one sitting. i just don't have the attention span, so i watch them in bits and pieces. so i can see that the internet certainly affects that in a person, but that shouldn't translate over to books because you can put them down whenever you want.
what's up with the foam-like substance? i 've read several articles about this, but haven't seen any explantion.
what's truly frightening for parents is that the signs can be so easy to misread: extreme exhaustion, behavioral changes...sounds like that could describe a typical little kid after a full day of swimming to me.
i think it's equally likely that people prone to schizophrenia are more likely to try drugs. i bet you could prove that, too, if you spent the money on a study. hell, if i find that most teenagers prone to mental illness like bacon, does that mean bacon is dangerous?
good point rich. he's not threatening to harm them. he's threatening to call the police, which is perfectly lawful (unlike just shooting someone) the last time i checked. i don't understand the problem.
LOL at devil's advocate. i think the name says it all. and in all fairness, the person he quoted did walk right into that one with the "how can you tolerate people with no tolerance" statement.
the only thing i've noticed in this vein is that it's hard for me to sit down and watch whole movies in one sitting. i just don't have the attention span, so i watch them in bits and pieces. so i can see that the internet certainly affects that in a person, but that shouldn't translate over to books because you can put them down whenever you want.
what's truly frightening for parents is that the signs can be so easy to misread: extreme exhaustion, behavioral changes...sounds like that could describe a typical little kid after a full day of swimming to me.