No, not Kanye.
http://www.christies.com/features/Neal-Cassady-long-lost-letter-to-Jack-Kerouac-comes-to-auction-7393-1.aspx?sid=554654ea10defb39638b510d&wpsrc=newsletter_tis
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Mom's Voice is Magical
From CNN -
Study: Mom's voice works like a charm on your brain
Less than one second. That's how long it takes children to recognize their mother's voice. And that voice lights a child's brain up like a Christmas tree.
A new study from Stanford University School of Medicine studied how children reacted to mom's voice compared to a woman they didn't know. Kids were not only more engaged by mom's voice than a stranger's, scientists found, but this response was noted beyond just auditory areas of the brain.
Parts of the brain related to emotion, reward processing, facial recognition and social functioning are also amped by hearing from mom. In short, a child's ability to communicate socially is in a large way affected by how he or she reacts to mom's voice.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/18/health/mom-voice-study-trnd/index.html
Study: Mom's voice works like a charm on your brain
Less than one second. That's how long it takes children to recognize their mother's voice. And that voice lights a child's brain up like a Christmas tree.
A new study from Stanford University School of Medicine studied how children reacted to mom's voice compared to a woman they didn't know. Kids were not only more engaged by mom's voice than a stranger's, scientists found, but this response was noted beyond just auditory areas of the brain.
Parts of the brain related to emotion, reward processing, facial recognition and social functioning are also amped by hearing from mom. In short, a child's ability to communicate socially is in a large way affected by how he or she reacts to mom's voice.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/18/health/mom-voice-study-trnd/index.html
Sticky Glue for Cars
From Mashable -
Google's self-driving cars haven't hit many things since they first took to the roads in 2015, but its collision avoidance technology isn't perfect. Now, it appears Google is working on some safety provisions in case one of their vehicles hits a pedestrian.
Google's self-driving cars haven't hit many things since they first took to the roads in 2015, but its collision avoidance technology isn't perfect. Now, it appears Google is working on some safety provisions in case one of their vehicles hits a pedestrian.
Google has patented a unique solution that puts a glue-like adhesive on the front end of the self-driving car. The patent, first seen by The Mercury News, describes the sticky covering as a way to catch pedestrians in case of a collision in order to minimize harm.
http://mashable.com/2016/05/19/google-car-stick-glue-adhesive/#rudNsLH.Agq5
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Geez Louise!
An excerpt from the Vox -
The TSA is hard to evaluate largely because it's attempting to solve a non-problem. Despite some very notable cases, airplane hijackings and bombings are quite rare. There aren't that many attempts, and there are even fewer successes. That makes it hard to judge if the TSA is working properly — if no one tries to do a liquid-based attack, then we don't know if the 3-ounce liquid rule prevents such attacks.
So Homeland Security officials looking to evaluate the agency had a clever idea: They pretended to be terrorists, and tried to smuggle guns and bombs onto planes 70 different times. And 67 of those times, the Red Team succeeded. Their weapons and bombs were not confiscated, despite the TSA's lengthy screening process. That's a success rate of more than 95 percent.
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-security
Quote
"Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the age of 68." [Richmond Times-Dispatch]
Relationships in the Digital Age
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/are-you-sure-you-want-to-unsubscribe-from-this-relationship?mbid=nl_160517_Daily&CNDID=27124505&spMailingID=8934576&spUserID=MTE0MzE0NDEyNDUyS0&spJobID=921695380&spReportId=OTIxNjk1MzgwS0
Rugby Recruiting
From Upworthy -
http://www.upworthy.com/these-gay-rugby-players-are-dismantling-stereotypes-one-photo-at-a-time?c=upw1
Monday, May 16, 2016
No Cheating!
From The Atlantic -
Iraq’s Anti-Cheating Campaign: For the second year in a row, Iraq has ordered telecom companies to shut down the Internet in an attempt to prevent cheating among thousands of sixth-graders taking national exams this month. Human-rights activists say Iraq’s test-related blackouts violate citizens’ free-speech rights and can help governments escape scrutiny in cases of abuse. Elsewhere, blackouts or censorship are usually connected to political or military events.
Iraq’s Anti-Cheating Campaign: For the second year in a row, Iraq has ordered telecom companies to shut down the Internet in an attempt to prevent cheating among thousands of sixth-graders taking national exams this month. Human-rights activists say Iraq’s test-related blackouts violate citizens’ free-speech rights and can help governments escape scrutiny in cases of abuse. Elsewhere, blackouts or censorship are usually connected to political or military events.
Print Your Own T-Shirts
For the adventurous do-it-yourselfer.
http://www.wired.com/2016/05/burn-silkscreen-print-shirts-home/?mbid=nl_51616
http://www.wired.com/2016/05/burn-silkscreen-print-shirts-home/?mbid=nl_51616
Janitor Gets Degree
An excerpt from CNN -
Custodian picks up degree from college he cleaned for almost a decade
Michael Vaudreuil is used to picking things up at school. He's a custodian at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
But over the weekend, he picked up something he'll definitely want to keep: a college degree.
Vaudreuill, 54, graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from the same place where he's cleaned and emptied the trash for the past eight years.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/us/custodian-graduates-from-college-he-cleaned-trnd/index.html
Custodian picks up degree from college he cleaned for almost a decade
Michael Vaudreuil is used to picking things up at school. He's a custodian at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
But over the weekend, he picked up something he'll definitely want to keep: a college degree.
Vaudreuill, 54, graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from the same place where he's cleaned and emptied the trash for the past eight years.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/us/custodian-graduates-from-college-he-cleaned-trnd/index.html
Tea Remedies
An excerpt from Little Things -
Eight Cozy Cups Of Tea To Soothe Your Every Affliction
By Rebecca Endicott
By Rebecca Endicott
Headache And Poor Circulation: Cinnamon Tea
Heeral Chhibber for LittleThings
Cinnamon is another cozy, warming spice that might conjure up images of Christmas cookies or your morning oatmeal.
This flavorful and familiar bark isn’t just good in mulled cider, though; soaking cinnamon sticks in hot water yields a rich, strong tea that can help cure a stubborn headache.
Because of its strong anti-inflammatory properties, cinnamon improves circulation and helps to reduce head pain, which is most often caused by minor swelling of the sinuses and of the facial muscles.
http://www.littlethings.com/tea-home-remedies/?utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange
Sunday, May 15, 2016
99 Cent Rentals
iTunes is offering 99 cent rentals of hit movies, including Chi-Raq and The Butler.
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
A Heavy Burden Multiplied
An excerpt from The Washington Post -
The invisible tax on black teachers
By John King May
John King is U.S. education secretary.
Research conducted recently by the American Federation of Teachers found that, while more teachers of color are being hired than in the past, they also are leaving the profession more quickly than white teachers.
Improved compensation and working conditions can help address this, of course. But one factor in teachers’ decisions to leave deserves special attention: the “invisible tax.”
According to some African American male teachers, the “invisible tax” is imposed on them when they are the only or one of only a few nonwhite male educators in the building. It is paid, for example, when these teachers, who make up only 2 percent of the teaching force nationally, are expected to serve as school disciplinarians based on an assumption that they will be better able to communicate with African American boys with behavior issues.
It is also paid when they have to be on high alert to prepare their students for racism outside of school. “Every time I take my students to an engineering competition, or to speak with industry partners, or to tour colleges, I have to have the code-switching talk,” explained Harry Preston, an African American physics teacher in Baltimore. “That is a mental tax I personally pay as an educator.”
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Sharif El-Mekki, principal of the Mastery Charter School’s Shoemaker campus in Philadelphia, has noted that the African American teachers he speaks with are of two minds about these extra duties. “They feel honored and appreciated that they are asked,” he said, “but when so many different people are asking them for help, it becomes a burden.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-invisible-tax-on-black-teachers/2016/05/15/6b7bea06-16f7-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
The invisible tax on black teachers
By John King May
John King is U.S. education secretary.
Research conducted recently by the American Federation of Teachers found that, while more teachers of color are being hired than in the past, they also are leaving the profession more quickly than white teachers.
Improved compensation and working conditions can help address this, of course. But one factor in teachers’ decisions to leave deserves special attention: the “invisible tax.”
According to some African American male teachers, the “invisible tax” is imposed on them when they are the only or one of only a few nonwhite male educators in the building. It is paid, for example, when these teachers, who make up only 2 percent of the teaching force nationally, are expected to serve as school disciplinarians based on an assumption that they will be better able to communicate with African American boys with behavior issues.
It is also paid when they have to be on high alert to prepare their students for racism outside of school. “Every time I take my students to an engineering competition, or to speak with industry partners, or to tour colleges, I have to have the code-switching talk,” explained Harry Preston, an African American physics teacher in Baltimore. “That is a mental tax I personally pay as an educator.”
~~~~~~~~~~
Sharif El-Mekki, principal of the Mastery Charter School’s Shoemaker campus in Philadelphia, has noted that the African American teachers he speaks with are of two minds about these extra duties. “They feel honored and appreciated that they are asked,” he said, “but when so many different people are asking them for help, it becomes a burden.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-invisible-tax-on-black-teachers/2016/05/15/6b7bea06-16f7-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Too Cute!
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| A photo of Lincoln Ball trying to train his new puppy by showing him a YouTube video has gone viral on Facebook. |
http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/boy-makes-puppy-watch-youtube-tutorials-training-adorable/story?id=39126358
A Roaming Mindset
An excerpt from StumpleUpon -
Instead Of Renting An Apartment, Sign A Lease That Lets You Live Around The World
Roam provides short-term apartments with a communal feel, for today's digital work-from-anywhere nomad.
If you can afford the airfare, it's getting easier to be a digital nomad. Roam, a new network of co-living spaces, offers a lease that lets you continually move: After a couple of weeks or months in Madrid, you can head to Miami, or Ubud, Bali. By 2017, the startup plans to have 8-10 locations around the world.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/3cg0MT/:wk0ttLt2:jlSqRSM./www.fastcoexist.com/3059469/instead-of-renting-an-apartment-sign-a-lease-that-lets-you-live-around-the-world
Instead Of Renting An Apartment, Sign A Lease That Lets You Live Around The World
Roam provides short-term apartments with a communal feel, for today's digital work-from-anywhere nomad.
If you can afford the airfare, it's getting easier to be a digital nomad. Roam, a new network of co-living spaces, offers a lease that lets you continually move: After a couple of weeks or months in Madrid, you can head to Miami, or Ubud, Bali. By 2017, the startup plans to have 8-10 locations around the world.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/3cg0MT/:wk0ttLt2:jlSqRSM./www.fastcoexist.com/3059469/instead-of-renting-an-apartment-sign-a-lease-that-lets-you-live-around-the-world
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Greatest Innovation Era?
An excerpt from The New York Times -
What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour
Which was a more important innovation: indoor
plumbing, jet air travel or mobile phones?
By NEIL IRWIN MAY 13, 2016
We’re in the golden age of innovation, an era in which digital technology is transforming the underpinnings of human existence. Or so a techno-optimist might argue.
We’re in a depressing era in which innovation has slowed and living standards are barely rising. That’s what some skeptical economists believe.
The truth is, this isn’t a debate that can be settled objectively. Which was a more important innovation: indoor plumbing, jet air travel or mobile phones? You could argue for any of them, and data can tell plenty of different stories depending on how you look at it. Productivity statistics or information on inflation-adjusted incomes is helpful, but can’t really tell you whether the advent of air-conditioning or the Internet did more to improve humanity’s quality of life.
We thought a better way to understand the significance of technological change would be to walk through how Americans lived, ate, traveled, and clothed and entertained themselves in 1870, 1920, 1970 and the present. This tour is both inspired by and reliant on Robert J. Gordon’s authoritative examination of innovation through the ages, “The Rise and Fall of American Growth,” published this year. These are portraits of each point in time, culled from Mr. Gordon’s research; you can decide for yourself which era is truly most transformative.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/upshot/what-was-the-greatest-era-for-american-innovation-a-brief-guided-tour.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=0
What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour
Which was a more important innovation: indoor
plumbing, jet air travel or mobile phones?
By NEIL IRWIN MAY 13, 2016
We’re in the golden age of innovation, an era in which digital technology is transforming the underpinnings of human existence. Or so a techno-optimist might argue.
We’re in a depressing era in which innovation has slowed and living standards are barely rising. That’s what some skeptical economists believe.
The truth is, this isn’t a debate that can be settled objectively. Which was a more important innovation: indoor plumbing, jet air travel or mobile phones? You could argue for any of them, and data can tell plenty of different stories depending on how you look at it. Productivity statistics or information on inflation-adjusted incomes is helpful, but can’t really tell you whether the advent of air-conditioning or the Internet did more to improve humanity’s quality of life.
We thought a better way to understand the significance of technological change would be to walk through how Americans lived, ate, traveled, and clothed and entertained themselves in 1870, 1920, 1970 and the present. This tour is both inspired by and reliant on Robert J. Gordon’s authoritative examination of innovation through the ages, “The Rise and Fall of American Growth,” published this year. These are portraits of each point in time, culled from Mr. Gordon’s research; you can decide for yourself which era is truly most transformative.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/upshot/what-was-the-greatest-era-for-american-innovation-a-brief-guided-tour.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&src=me&WT.nav=MostEmailed&_r=0
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