Can Computers Enable Students to Teach Themselves?
Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University and visiting professor at M.I.T., talks about how his Hole in the Wall Experiment helped poor children in the slums of Hyderabad, India teach themselves English. Giving them access to tools like computers, Mitra showed that uneducated, non-English speaking children could work in small groups and with the help of computers, teach themselves how to speak and read.
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Talking Monkeys In Space: New Telescope to Take First-Ever Black Hole Photo
A group of astronomers are meeting this week to plan out an ambitious and unprecedented project — capturing the first-ever image of a black hole.
The researchers want to create an Earth-size virtual instrument called the Event Horizon Telescope, a worldwide network of radio telescopes…
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Fuck you Prozac
Seriously, go fuck yourself, Prozac. I hate you.
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.
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A patient gets a unique gift from a nurse: a kidney
“…here was this young man right in front of me who needs help—today, and I am in a position to help him—today.” - Nurse Allison Batson
Nurses often go above and beyond the call of duty to help patients, but they usually don’t go to the lengths Allison Batson did. She donated a kidney to one.
The recipient is 23-year-old Clay Taber, who had been treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for kidney failure in 2010. The Auburn University graduate was diagnosed with Goodpasture’s syndrome, a rare autoimmune disease that can result in severe damage to the kidneys and lungs.
Taber eventually would up in the transplant unit at Emory, where Batson, a transplant nurse, was working. “Immediately when Clay came onto our unit, he became a special patient that everyone just gravitated to,” she said in a news release. “Here was this young man with everything in his life ahead of him, and he was fighting for his life. He quickly became friends of many of the staff, and really was just a tremendous inspiration to us all.”
Source: Los Angeles Times
There's nothing like religion to justify threatening a 16 year old girl with violence, rape and death.
It’s stories like these that make me glad I don’t live in America.
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