"Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys.
Girls have caught up on test scores, which researchers attribute to more taking higher math classes like calculus.
In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in math in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science.
Parents and teachers persist in thinking boys are simply better at math, said Janet Hyde, the University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher who led the study. And girls, who grew up believing it, wound up avoiding harder math classes.
"It keeps girls and women out of a lot of careers, particularly high-prestige, lucrative careers in science and technology," Hyde said.
That's changing, albeit slowly. Women are now earning 48 percent of undergraduate college degrees in math; they still lag far behind in physics and engineering" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet
yet another attempt by the liberal so-called science to destroy God's natural order. - Tad Donaghe
I was learning math in a time when I was told I was stupid because I didn't get math. - Judy Jones
I think it's just silly that they did a study on this... shouldn't it be obvious by now? - Tad Donaghe
"Welcome to I Dose, the perfect Binaural Beats experience!
Binaural Beats, affects our brainwaves directly, and can simulate various states, such as altering moods, behavior and consciousness.
Sounds crazy? We thought like that too. But guess what? we tried it, and it works!" - felicia via Bookmarklet
The 12-15 minute audio streams are not quite what I expected, but I am completely fascinated by this. - felicia
Too many complaints.. not enough know the hide-fu - Bwana McCall
Thanks Bwana. Although I am not afraid to hide stuff, I went through a similar culling process recently. - J. Phil
I'm of the friendfeed strict constructionist school and think the Friendfeed service should be for sharing stories, not for status updates. So I thank you, Bwana! - Mark Trapp
People use FriendFeed without knowing how to hide? Wow... - John
That's a sobering thought... If it weren't for the Hide button, I'd have had a psychotic episode by now. - Derrick Burns
I would be interested to know exactly how you have things set up, Bwana. - Rahsheen Porter
I've removed all status update services except identi.ca. My ping.fm setup hasn't changed except it doesn't post to FriendFeed anymore. So the only status updates you get from me are from identi.ca (for now). You shouldn't see any duplication. - Bwana McCall
My preferred noise-reducing technique is the "create a room" school of thought. To solve complaints about my recently played tracks filling up my feed, I created a separate room (lastfmfeeds) for that. I've also created odiogofeeds and pandorafeeds (although the latter can't do what I want it to do). Eventually I'll probably create twitterfeeds, flickrfeeds, youtubefeeds, and the rest, and my own feed will have no content. :) - Ontario Emperor
I don't get why people use ping.fm. Why have multiple status/mini-blog accounts and just post the exact same content to each one? Why not just stick to one and use that? - Nathaniel Payne
@Derrick - and that's why FriendFeed will never be mainstream - Jason Carreira
@Jason: Possibly; I think this gets at the root of an essential rift in user-experience ideology: do you give users access to a firehose and a wrench, letting them adjust the flow as they see fit (as @Akiva advocates above, and I favor), or do you instead hand them glasses of water? The choice is ultimately in the hands of the users, and since you're probably always going to have users who fall into both camps, no information flow is ever going to suit everyone. - Derrick Burns
Good post, Hank. So bad at PR, so good at Marketing. Are the two inversely correlated? Certainly not in every dimension, but Apple's secrecy regarding product launches and future developments is a big part of their marketing strategy. And they seem to be unwilling or unable to abandon this secrecy in other parts of their communication (MobileMe problems, iPhone SDK). - Ole Begemann
I've wondered the same thing. How can they be so good at marketing but suck at handling their image after the sale? - Yolanda
Its funny, I am waiting to see how long it takes for the crazed fanbois to attack over this. it seems to always happen. - Hank Williams
The other disadvantage (in the UK at least) is their repair service. 7-10 days return to base. Buy a similar machine from Dell at around the same total cost and you get 3 year, next-business-day, on-site repairs. - Russ
“I refuse to think I have had nothing interesting to say for the last few days, but I am getting absolutely no action from Friendfeed. No conversation. I am trying to feed, but friends are nowhere to be seen.”
Mark Trapp's 5 secrets to Friendfeed action: 1) Make sure Twitter is not the majority of your feed. It should be no more than 1/3 of what you share. 2) When sharing using the Friendfeed service, use pictures and a clear title. 3) Unless it's your blog, you will never break a social media story, and chances are, everyone's already seen the story you're sharing. Expand your sharing to other topics. 4) Unfollow anyone who is an a-lister unless they follow you back. They give a distorted impression of interestingness on Friendfeed. 5) If you see someone interesting in FoaF, immediately follow them and find out what they like and why they're interesting to you. You'll become a better sharer. - Mark Trapp
Hide hide hide. Get rid of the junk so you it doesn't push down the interesting stuff. - Shey
Yah .. hide things to find the good stuff. No offense to the people who do it but I get a lot of things like RECENTLY PLAYED TRACKS and other "noise" feeds. Block those out. I know some people like seeing new music but it's just not for me. A bit of work and you'll eventually get a nice setup going. - Bartek Gniado
I understand where you are coming from. I am still trying to understand this crazy FF world. Sometimes I wonder if I should comment/like people I don't know, like I am bugging them or something. Then again, I feel like if I don't do that, I am missing out on what this whole things is about. (and thanks Mark for the tips) - Aden
Aden, a huge amount of value comes from discovery and interacting with those discoveries. Absolutely "like" and "comment" on things that interest you, even if the person doesn't know you or you don't know the person: the more active you are, the more people notice you. It's name recognition, and people aren't going to get to know you (and you're not going to get to know them) if you don't participate. - Mark Trapp
Aden, definitely comment and like. If people didn't want anyone else to see what they've shared, they'd hide their feed. And like Mark said, how else will people know you if you don't chime in? - Yolanda
Great thread - Mark thanks for those comments, they're very insightful - nathan
“Yes Mark, Thanks! I have posted before regrading the desire NOT to be part of the echo chamber. I don't want to break stories. I also don't want the only way to participate in FF to be dedicating 4 hours a day. Theres gotta be balance. Great tips.” - Adam Helweh
I think they saw a LOLcat on the other side :p - zoblue
I tumbled this a week or so ago. Great picture! Happy dogs! - J. Phil
J. Phil: Do you have the original photographer and/or a better source than Pixdaus? I like to give credit and/or link to people's websites. Thanks! Also, Pixdaus (or the Pixdaus posters) often downgrade the photo quality. I'm trying to put together some cool slideshows & desktop pictures. - Mitchell Tsai
@Corvida ... could you ping me on GTalk when you havea minute please - Steven Hodson
I really hope your post is some sort of joke. Here is what I see: 1/ it doesn't matter that me and others got screwed, as long as they have $12mil in their account, 2/ it is ok to start it from scratch over and over again 3/ you don't care that me and others lost all our connections, as long as you still have thousands. Conclusion: it is a VERY BIG DEAL, as they have lost my data. If they would have lost their own data, I would have said nothing. But for the moment, it is my data they screwed. Have good traffic! - Alex Popescu
I rarely joke on my site Alex. It's just another perspective and far from a joke. I don't have thousands and you should be backing up those connections elsewhere anyways! That's not Twitter's fault that you didn't take the opportunity to move those connections off of Twitter and on to somewhere like your damn phone let alone your email contact book. Twitter didn't screw anyone. This is a possible price to pay for putting all you eggs in one basket that's been having issues since its inception. - Corvida
Corvida, I like the take in your post. I like your comment above even more : ) I'd understand Alex's rage if he was paying $20/mo. for the service, but he isn't. Disappointment and frustration with a free service, sure, ok. Rage? Not so much. - Robert Seidman
Twitter is a free service. You get what you pay for... especially if you didn't export your connections to Plurk, FriendFeed, or another service. - Bill Sodeman
Your exactly right Robert. It's a free service and that changes the rules a bunch. It's frustrating yes, but I don't believe it's something that can be thrown entirely on Twitter. - Corvida
But don't forget to factor in that because of the "free" users, funding is able to be obtained and the service can be adapted for paid models. Many services are free now because users won't pay for something that doesn't work if there's a free alternative, so who's going to be the first to charge and take that chance? The idea that hey, it's free, don't complain could be the downfall of an otherwise promising company. - Ro (Lilyhill)
You can't really be angry at Twitter just because it's unstable and ate your followers. They made you no promises and took none of your money (that I am aware of). What you CAN do is either stop using it, or protect yourself from future mishaps by backing up your contacts. - Rahsheen Porter
The fact that the service is free is not the point. Sites that collect data and provide a service have an implied responsibility to it's users. If Google was to suddenly lose peoples emails would folks have the right to feel pissed? Of course they would. If you can't provide the service intended then you shouldn't be providing it, no matter how cheaply. I'm good. I got my 3 followers back. And I am glad that the folks who run Twitter got things back in order in a reasonable amount of time. Kudos! - chartreuse
You say that because it's free it promises you nothing, but what if Gmail suddenly obliterated 1/2 of everyone's e-mails, including yours? Would you be singing the same tune? While there is not an explicit promise that comes with an exchange of money, there is, I think, an implicit promise that, in exchange for your attention and data, this free service will not totally make your life difficult. Letting companies that do this off the hook because they are free is not what good consumer behavior is about. - Dan Kaplan
Continued. The good news is that this was a temporary thing, but if it hadn't been...damn. - Dan Kaplan
Dan, G-Mail is at least monetized with advertising so it's a little different. Plus, by the time it launched in beta all those years ago Google was already a very profitable, stable and big company. If G-Mail went out for even half a day, there'd probably be little else on TechMeme. But for now, e-mail remains a much bigger deal than Twitter (perhaps not with you, but with the world) - Robert Seidman
When this happened yesterday, I was hoping it was a temporary glitch from which they would recover. There's a big difference between losing contacts for a few hours and losing them forever. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Just in case I was confusing, I do not agree that they are free to screw you over because the service is free. I'm just saying there is no point in being angry about it. If a free service/company burns you, all you can really do is move on. It's not like you can get a refund or credit for service. I have ditched Twitter completely. - Rahsheen Porter
I didn't think it was that big of a deal when it happened. Twitter communicated what was going on and now all of my followers are back. - Albert Willis
Eric I was using Ping. but then I always got doubles in my stream in FF... Hated that and it felt like I was poluting the content stream. How do you manage it and do you feel the same way? - Roger Kondrat
i think it's fine as long as you don't post everything to ping. that's annoying especially if you have the same people following you. i've stopped following some people on services because it's obvious they only use ping.fm, yet respond in only one service. - faboo mama
Well, i tested it to twitter and identica and ff, but if you notice, i do not and will not have twitter or identica post here... controlling signal to noise starts with ourselves. (I used to). - Eric Rice
Ping is awesome, just remove all services from FF that u have ping pushing to (minus ping) and dupe issue is resolved. Setting your other services to email u or someway else is good if u don't visit your other services often enough to deal with responses. - adolfo foronda
If you have Identi.ca, Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku, etc. all posting to FF from Ping.fm....you're probably gonna get blocked :) - Rahsheen Porter
Heh Rahsheen, I'm a loudmouth pain in the ass, but not to that extreme ;) - Eric Rice
Very interesting to think about. I think this will be a good thing, as tv advertising tends to be the most toxic. The case for the end of radio seems stronger though. - Paul Buchheit
i guess newspapers should be the first one .... - Raza
If internet TV can produce shows of the quality I'm used to watching (Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Heroes, etc...) then I can consider it. But when I hear stories of Internet Radio dying, I don't get the feeling that Internet TV will fare any better against traditional media. The obituary hasn't been written for newspapers yet. - Ernie Oporto
I agree with Raza. Newspapers are, sadly, already on their way out. It's melancholy for me because I used to work in the industry. - Akiva Moskovitz
I think everything our televisions will be multi-media centers at the home so television has a secure future. - orionstarr
I also want to add that i do agree with the final sentiment of the article: it's the networks that will go away, not the televisions. We'll end up with a la carte broadcasts where you subscribe to television series and will have them available to watch whenever a new episode is released. I, for one, look forward to that. - Akiva Moskovitz
+1 for the notion that it is the traditional broadcast television network, and not necessarily the media itself, that is being outmoded. - Derrick Burns
What about radio? Hasn't that pretty much fallen with the rise of satellite radio and mp3 players? - John
John, maybe in ClearChannel land but independent stations are doing quite well. - Akiva Moskovitz
I miss independent radio stations. A lot. - Derrick Burns
Derrick, kexp.org. Streaming 24/7 all day every day. - Akiva Moskovitz
@Akiva: Thanks for the tip. Am listening right now. Like the look of the playlist a lot. - Derrick Burns
Leaving comments is good all around. Makes the blogger feel appreciated and can generate traffic for your site also. Plus, doesn't it just give you a warm, fuzzy feeling? - Michael Tefft
Indeed, Michael! I have never been especially good at lurking. But I did find it interesting that FriendFeed is causing a change in at least one lurker to tease him out of his shell. - J. Phil
"The Force is still with Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams.
The Star Wars stars are set to reprise their iconic roles as Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian, lending their pipes to the Cartoon Network's Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II.
Seth Green is once again on board to helm the animated sequel, a follow-up to Adult Swim's George Lucas-sanctioned special that not only earned Green an Annie Award for Best Direction but also a recent Emmy nomination for Best Animated Show.
"It doesn't even seem real—getting to make Star Wars twice!" the Robot Chicken mastermind tells the Hollywood Reporter." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
Robot Chicken is excellent. (I used to live next door to Boba Fett in London) - Toby Graham
That Boba Fett skit is my favorite Robot Chicken skit to date. - J. Phil
Commenting just so Jason, world's biggest Robot Chicken fan, will be sure to see it. - Cyndy
Yeah, that was some funny shit right there... Can't wait for the next one! - Jason Carreira
Neat....we should all do something like this...btw I'm reading Book One of The Bartimaeus Trilogy b/c of you, also on a bus on my way to work, and liking it a lot so far. - Snay Trivedi
thanks everyone! I look forward to your videos! - Stefan Hayden
Thanks for the brief but informative introduction, Stefan - TDavid
It was weird turning it in. At first I thought I'd be all "Screw you guys. I'm going home."</cartman> but on my way to my team lead's office, I felt sorta weird. - Harvey Simmons
It took so long, I had this terrible feeling that something went wrong in the background check. I figured they found about my dad running moonshine back in the '50s or something. :) - Harvey Simmons
She probably signed up just to check out FF To Go. All mums like to know what their sons are up to you know... no matter how old they get! ;-) - Tony Ruscoe
Benjamin, if your mom has a smart phone and wants to keep up with FriendFeed, I have an excellent recommendation for her. (And no, it's not MojiPage.) - Ontario Emperor
Wow your Mom rocks. Mine can barely check her email. I can't imagine what FriendFeed would do to her. - Carla Thompson
My mom's on FriendFeed as well. Who can find her account? - Louis Gray
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