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Hehe! - Kol Tregaskes

"Many 4-year-olds cannot count up to their own age when they arrive at preschool, and those at the Stanley M. Makowski Early Childhood Center are hardly prodigies. Most live in this city’s poorer districts and begin their academic life well behind the curve. But there they were on a recent Wednesday morning, three months into the school year, counting up to seven and higher, even doing some elementary addition and subtraction. At recess, one boy, Joshua, used a pointer to illustrate a math concept known as cardinality, by completing place settings on a whiteboard. “You just put one plate there, and one there, and one here,” he explained, stepping aside as two other students ambled by, one wearing a pair of clown pants as a headscarf. “That’s it. See?” For much of the last century, educators and many scientists believed that children could not learn math at all before the age of five, that their brains simply were not ready. But recent research has turned that assumption on its head —... more... - RAPatton

"“Teaching is an ancient craft, and yet we really have had no idea how it affected the developing brain,” said Kurt Fischer, director of the Mind, Brain and Education program at Harvard. “Well, that is beginning to change, and for the first time we are seeing the fields of brain science and education work together.” This relationship is new and still awkward, experts say, and there is... more... - RAPatton

"Over the past four years, the couple has tested Building Blocks in more than 400 classrooms in Buffalo, Boston and Nashville, comparing the progress of children in the program with that of peers in classes offering another math curriculum or none at all. On tests of addition, subtraction and number recognition after one school year, children who had the program scored in the 76th... more... - RAPatton

Perfect!!!!! - Emre BAHADIR

woawowl :O - sedef tenim

The power of prayer has long been controversial, but a new study in a leading psychological journal finds some of the first scientific evidence that it truly works - at least on the person doing the praying. - Shey, Jamaican of FF from Bookmarklet

I knew that without the study, but right on. - Josh Haley

I think this will be my next phone. - Matthew Gifford

"It used to be that computer viruses attacked only your hard drive. Now they attack your dignity. Malicious programs are rampaging through Web sites like Facebook and Twitter, spreading themselves by taking over people’s accounts and sending out messages to all of their friends and followers. The result is that people are inadvertently telling their co-workers and loved ones how to raise their I.Q.’s or make money instantly, or urging them to watch an awesome new video in which they star. “I wonder what people are thinking of me right now?” said Matt Marquess, an employee at a public relations firm in San Francisco whose Twitter account was recently hijacked, showering his followers with messages that appeared to offer a $500 gift card to Victoria’s Secret. Mr. Marquess was clueless about the offers until a professional acquaintance asked him about them via e-mail. Confused, he logged in to his account and noticed he had been promoting lingerie for five days. “No one had said anything... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

I feel that a majority of the people I communicate with on Twitter and Facebook would find it odd enough to avoid anything I post if I suddenly started touting free underpants. - James Ferguson

"The Queen is to hand over a substantial part of her public duties to Prince William to help him prepare for the day when he becomes King, according to a confidential document obtained by The Mail on Sunday. Secret papers reveal that plans to ease the strain on the 83-year-old monarch and her 88-year-old husband, Prince Philip, are at an advanced stage. The disclosures come despite months of denials from the Palace that the Queen was planning to step back from her official work in favour of her 27-year-old grandson." - Jason Huebel from Bookmarklet

Yep, he's been losing his hair since about 21. - cecily

Not so secret anymore :) - Steve Borgman

"The new research may help explain why large galaxies tend to have super-massive block holes at their cores. Astronomers have long wanted an answer to the chicken-and-egg question of what comes first, a super-massive black hole or the stars surrounding it. A new observation of a far away object five billion light years from Earth may now help to solve the riddle. The object is a quasar, a powerful source of energy believed to mark the location of an active giant black hole. Nothing that gets close enough to a black hole can escape its powerful gravity. However, material swirling around the edge of a black hole can radiate enormous amounts of energy. Radiation from the quasar was being emitted when the universe was little more than a third of its present age." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"To their surprise, the astronomers found that unlike most quasars, this one was ''naked'' and not situated at the centre of a galaxy. However, there was a companion galaxy close to it creating new stars at a frantic rate equivalent to about 350 suns per year. The galaxy was effectively ''under fire'' from jets of high energy particles and fast moving gas shooting out of the quasar, the... more... - RAPatton

cool - echostreamer

"Working on these points can help you get better quicker. You do not have to use all of these points. Using just one or two of them whenever you have a free hand can be effective." - Anna Haro from Bookmarklet

Look at F. Makes sense that so many people rub /pinch right there when they are frustrated. - Heather Solos

haha thats great!! - Sandra Rode

this picture is "total" :) - Laurentiu

Some of these are great!! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

The photo with the pole in the driveway looks like it was designed that way. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

LOL! - Kol Tregaskes

Bumping some old good posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Wow!! - Kol Tregaskes

Bumping some old good posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

hahahaha - Anna Haro

i do this, & the "nod" :) - chaz2b

"Two Japanese submarines designed to carry bombers to strike U.S. coastal cities in World War II have been found on the seabed off Hawaii. They had been captured by the U.S. Navy when Japan surrendered in 1945 but were sunk deliberately the following year after the Soviet Union demanded access to them. This was because the U.S. had learned a vast amount of information from the submarines and did not want the technological secrets falling into the hands of the Soviets, their former ally." - RAPatton

It is fascinating how they invented this incredibly high-tech submarine aircraft carrier, and the weapon is still basically the same as it was a thousand years ago: catapulting rotting corpses and pest infested rats over the city wall. - Eivind

via Bicentennial (Franc) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

ok I just watched the fourth time and I am still laughing. What's wrong with me? I wonder if I'd still laugh two years later - because I am no longer amused with the 2007 Miss America video. This will now resume the #1 position. :) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

عکس اول :)) - mehdis85

:) - Mary

"A virtually unlimited supply of rare cells can now be produced in the laboratory to fight diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis in mice. Crucially, these cells, which dampen down the body's immune response, have been engineered so that they target damaged tissue yet don't leave the rest of the body open to infection. Vaccines have long harnessed the body's natural ability to fight disease. Therapies that boost our natural immune response to cancer are also in the works (see Autoimmune disease cells harnessed to fight cancer). But in autoimmune disease – in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's own tissue – the opposite is needed. So immunologists have long eyed up the cells that dampen down the immune response, known as regulatory T-cells or T-regs, for their potential to treat autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes and multiple sclerosis." - RAPatton

"The team starts by extracting ordinary T-cells – immune cells that are common in the blood – from mice and using a virus to insert two genes into these cells. One gene, FOXP3, transforms the ordinary T-cells into T-regs. The second gene codes for a receptor for a substance called ovalbumin. Next the researchers injected ovalbumin into mice with rheumatoid arthritis, which is caused by... more... - RAPatton

"Stauss says that a similar T-reg therapy could be developed to target autoimmune diseases that strike other parts of the body, by adding genes for receptors specific to molecules found there. Alexandre Corthay of the University of Oslo in Norway warns of the unpredictable nature of T-regs, which regularly turn back into normal T-cells in the body. Stauss admits that this is a risk but... more... - RAPatton

"That's where the tree gives each leaf a push, leaving it increasingly dangling. "So with that very slender connection, they're sort of ready to be kicked off," says Raven, and then a breeze comes along and finishes the job. So the truth is, the wind isn't making the leaves fall. It's the tree. The tree is deeply programmed by eons of evolution to insist that the leaves drop away. Why? Why not let the leaves stick around? Why drop? Raven explains that leaves are basically the kitchen staff of a tree. During the spring, summer and early fall they make the food that helps the tree grow and thrive and reproduce. When the days get short and cold, food production slows down, giving the tree an option: It can keep the kitchen staff or it can let it go." - Melissa from Bookmarklet

Cool. I'm always amazed at how tenacious leaves are in the wind. We get huge storms and leaves whip around like in a sky sized blender yet they stay on. This makes a lot of sense as to why. - Todd Hoff

Neglected for decades, the quince seems an improbable candidate for revival today, when consumers demand sweet, ready-to-eat fresh fruit. Why is it, then, that in recent years three books of quince recipes and lore have appeared, the fruit increasingly is featured at high-end restaurants, and half a dozen of these have even been named after it? - chaz2b from Bookmarklet