Sep 20 2008
Archive for the 'Education' Category
(TREND HUNTER) Don’t screw around with Mother Nature, and especially not with her oceans. She’ll bury you under tons of water! Global warming will have a dramatic effect on our ecosystem and none is more pronounced than… [More]
10 Giant Waves Caused by Global Warming (VIDEO)Jul 18 2008
Free Textbooks Coming to Colleges
In the U.S. the buying and selling of textbooks is almost hated as much as a 7:30 a.m. class. Flat World, a company in New York says it is launching a pilot project to give away texts on 15 campuses. They have a goal of demolishing the $5.5 billion text publishing industry. Nobody involved in the class book project is happy, authors, faculty or students. All the books have been peer reviewed and promise to deliver high quality. A former exec with the largest text publisher says “why not try something different?”
It’s the distribution method — via the Internet — that is a radical change. Video and audio clips are embedded in most texts, often adding timely examples from real-life practitioners. Plus, the texts are produced on an open-source platform, meaning they can be updated easily and professors can customize each textbook to match a particular lesson plan. Those are major advantages over paper editions, says Dana Lanham, an advertising professor at University of North Carolina in Charlotte. “Being online lets the content be so dynamic,” says Lanham, who will teach some 70 students using Flat World texts this fall. “Usually textbooks are out of date as soon as you print them.” (time)
Jul 18 2008
Hookers and Priests Give Gas Cards. Plus 126 Ways to Avoid Rising Fuel Costs
Giving away gas cards with purchases of goods is fairly new. But now people are going to extremes to fuel up their vehicles. David Partin said he would name his kid Dixon Willoughby Partin after two radio station hosts in exchange for $100 gas card. The hookers at the Shady Lady Brothel are giving away gas cards, a priest is having a drawing for those who attend mass, comparing giving gas to Jesus creating wine.
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Jul 17 2008
Too Many Flags at Half-Staff; Only President Can Ordered Them Lowered.
The United States Flag Code (a law) says that only the President and sometimes a governor can order a flag to half staff, but all over, mayors, county officials, fire chiefs, police chiefs, sanitation chiefs, are ordering the flag be flown “like a broken kite, half way up the staff.”
It’s wrong - the flag should fly proudly everyday at full staff - this video carefully and hopefully gently explains why it is wrong to fly it half-staff for “ordinary” citizens.
