Another Reason For High School Civic Education | Future Majority

If we had comprehensive civic education in high schools, then we could focus on actually persuading and informing citizens about specific issues that take a bit of expertise to understand. Bookmark/Search this post with: …

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First video ad to appear in Entertainment Weekly | csmonitor.com

Innovation: The Christian Science Monitor’s innovation section.

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U.S. Health-Care Not to Blame for Lower Life-Expectancy – NRO …

Its low ranking is often blamed on a poor performance by the health care system rather than on behavioral or social factors. … We find that, by standards of OECD countries, the US does well in terms of screening for cancer, …

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The Seventh Sense: How The Internet Sees You

It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you. Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for …

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Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom – CSUN …

A recent 93-page report on online education , conducted by SRI International for the Department of Education , has a starchy academic title, but a most intriguing conclusion: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed …

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Worst Science Article of The Week: Women Are Evil, and Want Your …

Worst Science Article of the Week | Oh Lord. From the Telegraph, we’d expect this. But New Scientist?From a piece posted earlier this week:Women: do you have a man?

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Destructoid – Eidos: Used games have no benefit to publishers

No sh*t?Eidos life president Ian Livingstone has attacked the pre-owned sales market, becoming one in a long line of people who have suddenly decided capitalism is bad, despite all the exploitati…

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Health Care Reform Gets Religion | Indecision Forever | Comedy Central

In the fight to stop fighting about health care reform, Barack Obama has sided with some powerful new allies: a group of faith leaders who are gonna pray us out.

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