Friday, May 12, 2017
Young, Gifted & Black 14-Year-Old Physics Graduate
From the Huffington Post -
This 14-Year-Old Is Already Graduating College With A Physics Degree
Oh, and his 11-year-old brother is also a freshman at the university.
By Lilly Workneh
While most 14-year-old students are about to enter high school, Carson Huey-You is ready to graduate from Texas Christian University with a physics degree.
Carson, who also completed a double minor in math and Chinese, enrolled in the school as a freshman at the age of 11 and is set to graduate Saturday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-14-year-old-is-already-graduating-college-with-a-physics-degree_us_59148dcae4b066b421720e2f?kjh
This 14-Year-Old Is Already Graduating College With A Physics Degree
Oh, and his 11-year-old brother is also a freshman at the university.
By Lilly Workneh
While most 14-year-old students are about to enter high school, Carson Huey-You is ready to graduate from Texas Christian University with a physics degree.
Carson, who also completed a double minor in math and Chinese, enrolled in the school as a freshman at the age of 11 and is set to graduate Saturday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-14-year-old-is-already-graduating-college-with-a-physics-degree_us_59148dcae4b066b421720e2f?kjh
Planet-Saving Inventions
From CNN -
5 cool inventions that could save the planet
By Tricia Escobedo
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/tech/ecosolutions-5-ways-tech/index.html
5 cool inventions that could save the planet
By Tricia Escobedo
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/tech/ecosolutions-5-ways-tech/index.html
Thursday, May 11, 2017
He's a Lousy Poker Player
From the NY Times -
The Easy Tells of Comey’s Canning
By Bret Stephens
Tell: After the president publicly impugned his own F.B.I. director, it meant Rosenstein’s memo was a pro forma, pretextual exercise.
Tell: When the president boasts about his great campaign, you know he’s less than sure about just how great it really was.
Tell: When the president calls news “fake” or a story “phony,” you know the truth quotient is likely to be high. And, again, you know he knows you know it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/opinion/comey-firing-donald-trump.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
The Easy Tells of Comey’s Canning
By Bret Stephens
Tell: After the president publicly impugned his own F.B.I. director, it meant Rosenstein’s memo was a pro forma, pretextual exercise.
Tell: When the president boasts about his great campaign, you know he’s less than sure about just how great it really was.
Tell: When the president calls news “fake” or a story “phony,” you know the truth quotient is likely to be high. And, again, you know he knows you know it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/opinion/comey-firing-donald-trump.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
Familiarity Breeds Contempt
I hope this is not true because if it is, he comes off as a first class jerk.
You decide.
http://www.thewrap.com/steve-harvey-bizarre-email-to-employees-do-not-open-my-dressing-room-door/
You decide.
http://www.thewrap.com/steve-harvey-bizarre-email-to-employees-do-not-open-my-dressing-room-door/
A Tough Job
An excerpt from the NY Times -
An Open Letter to the Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein has more authority than anyone else
to restore Americans’ confidence in their government.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Dear Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein:
Few public servants have found themselves with a choice as weighty as yours, between following their conscience and obeying a leader trying to evade scrutiny — Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus, who behaved nobly in Watergate, come to mind. You can add your name to this short, heroic list. Yes, it might cost you your job. But it would save your honor, and so much more besides.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/opinion/deputy-attorney-general-open-letter.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0
An Open Letter to the Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein has more authority than anyone else
to restore Americans’ confidence in their government.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Dear Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein:
Few public servants have found themselves with a choice as weighty as yours, between following their conscience and obeying a leader trying to evade scrutiny — Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus, who behaved nobly in Watergate, come to mind. You can add your name to this short, heroic list. Yes, it might cost you your job. But it would save your honor, and so much more besides.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/opinion/deputy-attorney-general-open-letter.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Where There's Smoke, There's Fire
An excerpt from Salon -
Americans are witnessing a slow-motion coup
Rule of law be damned, President Trump was mad as hell and casting around looking for a reason to fire James Comey
By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
How incredibly clueless is Trump that he would think this would work? Did he really expect them to endorse his obvious cover-up? Who came up with this insane strategy? Do they really think when the man who is under investigation fires the guy investigating him that people are going to buy it? Do they think nobody remembers when former President Richard Nixon fired the special prosecutor Archibald Cox? Watergate isn’t water under the bridge; it’s history. And there are still people in Washington who know that Archibald Cox wasn’t a character on “The Simpsons” and the night Nixon fired him was called the Saturday Night Massacre. Trump’s pathetic political naïveté is coming into focus. If this is his best game, it’s the fourth quarter: He’s down by double digits; he’s the quarterback and his name isn’t Brady.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/10/americans-are-witnessing-a-slow-motion-coup/
Americans are witnessing a slow-motion coup
Rule of law be damned, President Trump was mad as hell and casting around looking for a reason to fire James Comey
By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
How incredibly clueless is Trump that he would think this would work? Did he really expect them to endorse his obvious cover-up? Who came up with this insane strategy? Do they really think when the man who is under investigation fires the guy investigating him that people are going to buy it? Do they think nobody remembers when former President Richard Nixon fired the special prosecutor Archibald Cox? Watergate isn’t water under the bridge; it’s history. And there are still people in Washington who know that Archibald Cox wasn’t a character on “The Simpsons” and the night Nixon fired him was called the Saturday Night Massacre. Trump’s pathetic political naïveté is coming into focus. If this is his best game, it’s the fourth quarter: He’s down by double digits; he’s the quarterback and his name isn’t Brady.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/10/americans-are-witnessing-a-slow-motion-coup/
A Damn Shame! 2
From CBS News & the Associated Press -
Tuskegee syphilis study descendants speak about tragedy, seek healing
Decades later, it's hard to grasp what the federal government did to hundreds of black men in rural Alabama. Especially if you're among their descendants, who continue to gather in memory of their fathers and grandfathers.
For 40 years starting in 1932, medical workers in the segregated South withheld treatment for unsuspecting men infected with a sexually transmitted disease simply so doctors could track the ravages of the horrid illness and dissect their bodies afterward.
Finally exposed in 1972, the study ended and the men sued, resulting in a $9 million settlement. Twenty years ago this May, then President Bill Clinton apologized for the U.S. government.
But it did not mark the end of the study's ugly legacy.
Relatives of the men still struggle with the stigma of being linked to the experiment, what's commonly known as the "Tuskegee Syphilis Study." For years they have met privately to share their pain and to honor the victims.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tuskegee-syphilis-study-descendants-speak-about-tragedy-call-for-action/
Tuskegee syphilis study descendants speak about tragedy, seek healing
Decades later, it's hard to grasp what the federal government did to hundreds of black men in rural Alabama. Especially if you're among their descendants, who continue to gather in memory of their fathers and grandfathers.
For 40 years starting in 1932, medical workers in the segregated South withheld treatment for unsuspecting men infected with a sexually transmitted disease simply so doctors could track the ravages of the horrid illness and dissect their bodies afterward.
Finally exposed in 1972, the study ended and the men sued, resulting in a $9 million settlement. Twenty years ago this May, then President Bill Clinton apologized for the U.S. government.
But it did not mark the end of the study's ugly legacy.
Relatives of the men still struggle with the stigma of being linked to the experiment, what's commonly known as the "Tuskegee Syphilis Study." For years they have met privately to share their pain and to honor the victims.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tuskegee-syphilis-study-descendants-speak-about-tragedy-call-for-action/
A Damn Shame!
From Reading Eagle -
AP WAS THERE: Black men untreated in Tuskegee Syphilis Study
By JEAN HELLER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE: On July 25, 1972, Associated Press reporter Jean Heller broke news that rocked the American medical establishment. The federal government, she reported, had let hundreds of black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis for 40 years for research purposes. A public outcry ensued, and the "Tuskegee Syphilis Study" ended three months later. The men filed a lawsuit that resulted in a $9 million settlement, and then-President Bill Clinton formally apologized years later.
Still, the chilling effects of the study linger to this day — it's routinely cited as a reason some African-Americans are reluctant to participate in medical research, or even go to the doctor for routine check-ups.
http://www.readingeagle.com/ap/article/ap-was-there-black-men-untreated-in-tuskegee-syphilis-study
AP WAS THERE: Black men untreated in Tuskegee Syphilis Study
By JEAN HELLER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE: On July 25, 1972, Associated Press reporter Jean Heller broke news that rocked the American medical establishment. The federal government, she reported, had let hundreds of black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis for 40 years for research purposes. A public outcry ensued, and the "Tuskegee Syphilis Study" ended three months later. The men filed a lawsuit that resulted in a $9 million settlement, and then-President Bill Clinton formally apologized years later.
Still, the chilling effects of the study linger to this day — it's routinely cited as a reason some African-Americans are reluctant to participate in medical research, or even go to the doctor for routine check-ups.
http://www.readingeagle.com/ap/article/ap-was-there-black-men-untreated-in-tuskegee-syphilis-study
Through Our Eyes
Excerpts from the Undefeated -
Here’s why black teachers are so important to education and to our children
‘Through Our Eyes: Perspectives and Reflection From Black Teachers’ reinforces necessity to get more of them in classrooms
BY KELLEY D. EVANS
“Teachers of color bring benefits to classrooms beyond content knowledge and pedagogy.”
This is what a recent study from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes high academic achievement, claims. And it has data to back it up.
~~~~~~~~~~
“The difference I would like to make is a difference that my fifth-grade teacher, an African American woman, made [for] me,” says an elementary teacher from Oakland, California, who is also a Black woman.
She credits that teacher with instilling in her a love of math, but also with fostering the self-confidence that would buoy her when other teachers doubted her ability. Now, she tries to give all her students — and especially her Black students — that same assurance.
https://theundefeated.com/features/black-teachers-are-important-to-education/
Here’s why black teachers are so important to education and to our children
‘Through Our Eyes: Perspectives and Reflection From Black Teachers’ reinforces necessity to get more of them in classrooms
BY KELLEY D. EVANS
“Teachers of color bring benefits to classrooms beyond content knowledge and pedagogy.”
This is what a recent study from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes high academic achievement, claims. And it has data to back it up.
~~~~~~~~~~
“The difference I would like to make is a difference that my fifth-grade teacher, an African American woman, made [for] me,” says an elementary teacher from Oakland, California, who is also a Black woman.
She credits that teacher with instilling in her a love of math, but also with fostering the self-confidence that would buoy her when other teachers doubted her ability. Now, she tries to give all her students — and especially her Black students — that same assurance.
https://theundefeated.com/features/black-teachers-are-important-to-education/
First Word = Idiot
An excerpt from Salon -
Poll: The first word that comes to mind when we think of Trump is . . .
According to a new survey, when most Americans are asked to describe him, they aren''t thinking "president"
By KATIE SERENA
Question 9 of the poll asked, “What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump?”
The word was “idiot” was repeated 39 times, more so than another. The second most cited word? “Incompetent.” In third place? “Liar.”
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/10/the-first-word-that-comes-to-mind-when-we-think-of-trump-is/
Poll: The first word that comes to mind when we think of Trump is . . .
According to a new survey, when most Americans are asked to describe him, they aren''t thinking "president"
By KATIE SERENA
Question 9 of the poll asked, “What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump?”
The word was “idiot” was repeated 39 times, more so than another. The second most cited word? “Incompetent.” In third place? “Liar.”
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/10/the-first-word-that-comes-to-mind-when-we-think-of-trump-is/
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