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Today Storyline peeks in at a town that blocked child immigrants. Also, the site seems to be featuring more story lines today which gives me a sad.
The NY Times asks, Why Do Americans Stink at Math? To which it's editorial page responds, Don't Teach Math, Coach It. I blame the lack of computer programming courses in our elementary skills - kids don't know how to think!
iO9 wants to know how Christians would deal with extraterrestrial life if it were discovered. It's especially problematic if it's intelligent life. Although I suppose about 30% of Christians would just deny extraterrestrial life exists citing a lack of biblical evidence.
Speaking of Christians who would have no problems with extraterrestrial life, Jason Jones reviews The Fifth Element and remembers to bring his multi-pass. Did I say reviews? Well, offers some constructive criticism may be more accurate. Read it anyway. And then all his other movie and game reviews.
The Daily Dish's book club this month is a book about the essays of Montaigne. Andrew Sullivan posts some reader feedback, specifically about the fear of dying. You can find the book club archive here.
Children don't like to eat healthy things. I'm pretty sure this has been know sine forever. Listen up parents! Your the boss of your children. Don't let them eat shitty food. You have that control. Fight them! Yes, I know they're genetically programmed to seek fat, salt, and sugar. Yes, I know you're genetically programmed to love them and make them happy. But you have to make them healthy too.
Andrew Prokop was at The Christian Science Monitor breakfast. A White House aid was genuinely worried that the House may impeach the president.
Pay - for - performance is a myth in corporate America. It really makes the gender-wage gap less defensible. Also, if people aren't paid more for being smarter and better than everyone else, how will we know who's best? Last, if this is the case, why do we want to emulate pay-for-performance in schools?
In the journal Personality and Individual Differences, a study looks at internet trolls.
Newsweek covers Valdimir Putin's life. The dude is pretty cool in a shirtless crazy power mad dictator kind of way. Also, how are these guys a superpower?In two online studies (total N = 1215), respondents completed personality inventories and a survey of their Internet commenting styles. Overall, strong positive associations emerged among online commenting frequency, trolling enjoyment, and troll identity, pointing to a common construct underlying the measures. Both studies revealed similar patterns of relations between trolling and the Dark Tetrad of personality: trolling correlated positively with sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, using both enjoyment ratings and identity scores. Of all personality measures, sadism showed the most robust associations with trolling and, importantly, the relationship was specific to trolling behavior. Enjoyment of other online activities, such as chatting and debating, was unrelated to sadism. Thus cyber-trolling appears to be an Internet manifestation of everyday sadism.
How Big of a Problem is Harassment at Comic Conventions? Very Big.
Why Captain America Should Stay Black Forever. Because a Black President isn't enough.
John Oliver and Clickhole. Fake news in opposite directions. I highly recommend pirating Oliver's show if you can't afford a $60 + $15 per month cable and HBO subscription. He's really come into is own and is far more biting than Stewart.
The New Yorker tells a 'guy walks into a bar' joke. Archives are fun.
I'm not saying Reason magazine published a Holocaust denial issue in 1976, but Reason magazine published a Holocaust denial issue in 1976. Also, they're super racist.
How many molecules of ink are used to print a single 12pt numeral?
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