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Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges. Yale University, in New Haven, Conn., is building two new residential colleges as it prepares to increase the size of its freshman classes, in part to accommodate growing international demand.

Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges

The number of incoming foreign students at the elite school rose 46 percent from 2004 to 2014. (Stan Godlewski/For The Washington Post) NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A major increase in international enrollment in recent years has intensified the competition for entry to America’s top private colleges and universities, as ever-growing numbers of applicants angle for the limited supply of seats.

Japanese Wood Joinery without Nails. Survive an apocalypse? Sounds pretty sweet to me! From clay to hand. SSRI Withdrawal Effects Are Brutal and Long Lasting – Citizens Commission on Human Rights, CCHR. Psychiatrists are being forced to face the evidence that SSRI withdrawal symptoms are indeed long lasting and damaging to physical and mental health.

SSRI Withdrawal Effects Are Brutal and Long Lasting – Citizens Commission on Human Rights, CCHR

The descriptions written by patients who stopped taking these drugs tell the true story. SSRIs are a class of compounds typically used as antidepressants in the treatment of depression, anxiety disorders, and some personality disorders. Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Prozac Story. Editorial Note: Over two years ago we posted Antidepressant Withdrawal: V’s story.

Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Prozac Story

It has close to 100 comments making it one of the topics that has attracted the most interest. Right now the New York Times is running a series on Breaking up with my Meds that is attracting a lot of comment. The UK is about to wield unprecedented surveillance powers — here’s what it means - The Verge. The UK is about to become one of the world’s foremost surveillance states, allowing its police and intelligence agencies to spy on its own people to a degree that is unprecedented for a democracy.

The UK is about to wield unprecedented surveillance powers — here’s what it means - The Verge

The UN’s privacy chief has called the situation "worse than scary. " Edward Snowden says it’s simply "the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. " legalizing the bulk collection of data while adding new powers The legislation in question is called the Investigatory Powers Bill. A little getaway... Rewire Anxiety Into Confidence By Changing Your Outlook of Your Future. Four Ways to Handle Interview Questions You Don't Know How to Answer. An optimistic view of bot driven automation on the future of jobs. Are bots and other technologies taking over the world and relegating us humans to third-rate status?

An optimistic view of bot driven automation on the future of jobs

Before you get your knickers in a knot, remember this is typically the result of automation. Automation does eliminate some jobs but maybe that’s not a bad thing. As we contemplate what to do with the greater freedom the digital disruption will provide, let’s also consider lessons from earlier automation eras. If you believe Elon Musk and his ilk, then it’s just a matter of time before a bot or other automation replaces you. Musk and many others suggest that some form of universal basic income or UBI, is just around the corner. What It's Like Teaching '1984' After Trump's Election. My classroom becomes a totalitarian state every school year toward the end of October.

What It's Like Teaching '1984' After Trump's Election

In preparation for teaching 1984 to seniors, I announce the launch of a new program aimed at combating senioritis, a real disease with symptoms that include frequent unexplained absences, indifferent reading, and shoddy work. I tell each class that another class is largely to blame for the problem and require, for a substantial participation grade, that students file daily reports on another student’s work habits and conduct; most are assigned to another student in the same class. We blanket the campus in posters featuring my face and simple slogans that warn against the dangers of senioritis and declare my program the only solution to the school’s woes.

Last year, my program was OSIP (Organization for Senior Improvement Project); this year, it’s SAFE (Scholar Alliance For Excellence). When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens? Education and the Commercial Mindset by Samuel E.

When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens?

Abrams Harvard University Press, 417 pp., $39.95 School Choice: The End of Public Education? An Alarm Designer on How to Annoy People in the Most Effective Ways. When the cockpit recorder transcript from Air France Flight 447 was leaked to the public in 2011, many startling details emerged.

An Alarm Designer on How to Annoy People in the Most Effective Ways

The plane, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people on board, had been under the control of pilots who were communicating poorly and not realizing one another’s mistakes. The plane’s speed slowed to dangerous levels, activating the stall alarm—the one, in the words of Popular Mechanics, “designed to be impossible to ignore.” It blared the word “Stall!” 75 times. Our last line of defense against antibiotic-resistant bacteria is beginning to fail, says ECDC. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US, every year about two million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to anything we can throw at them and of those, at least 23,000 die.

Our last line of defense against antibiotic-resistant bacteria is beginning to fail, says ECDC

Now the European equivalent to the CDC, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has just reported on how well the EU is doing in the battle to keep deadly bugs at bay. And the news isn't great. This Online Course Is a Good Introduction to Ethical Hacking. Interactive Photo: Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. Read the full story of how Christopher Oakley identified Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg Take a look at the above interactive to see how Christopher Oakley, a former Disney animator, pored over photographs of the dedication ceremony at the Soldiers' National Battlefield, where President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.

Interactive Photo: Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg

There are three images of note, two made by noted Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner and one by David Bacharach. The first screen details an identification of Lincoln made by John Richter, the director of the Center for Civil War Photography. The Stark Contrast Between GOP’s Self-Criticism in 2012 and Democrats’ Blame-Everyone-Else Posture Now. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Democratic Party is in shambles as a political force. Not only did it just lose the White House to a wildly unpopular farce of a candidate despite a virtually unified establishment behind it, and not only is it the minority party in both the Senate and House, but it is getting crushed at historical record rates on the state and local levels as well. Surveying this wreckage last week, party stalwart Matthew Yglesias of Vox minced no words: “The Obama years have created a Democratic Party that’s essentially a smoking pile of rubble.” One would assume that the operatives and loyalists of such a weak, defeated, and wrecked political party would be eager to engage in some introspection and self-critique, and to produce a frank accounting of what they did wrong so as to alter their plight.

In the case of 2016 Democrats, one would be quite mistaken. Graphic: The New York Times. Good night. Well, that escalated quickly! Tesla’s solar roof to cost less than a regular roof – even before energy production, says Elon Musk. Elon Musk made quite the announcement today. During the special shareholders meeting to approve the merger with SolarCity, which they approved by 85%, he said that he was coming back from a meeting with the SolarCity engineering team about the solar roof and that he now feels confident that they could deliver the product at a lower cost than a regular roof – even before energy production. That’s different from what the company was claiming before the meeting today. Guitar strings filmed with rolling shutter. The future of genetic enhancement is in China and India — Quartz. It’s been a tough few days. But while we were distracted by Trumpocalypse 2016, Marvel’s latest cinematic opus, Dr. Strange, crossed the $150 million mark at the domestic box office—and is fast approaching half a billion in revenues internationally.

Whatever its final total, Dr. Strange is clearly going to be another one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s biggest hits, possibly the biggest that doesn’t feature Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man or Chris Evans as Captain America. But for those advocating inclusion, diversity, and authentic representation, whether in politics or pop culture, Dr. New Way of Transforming CO2 Is More Efficient Than What Plants Do. By tinkering with the process that plants use to breathe in carbon dioxide, a team of German scientists has just discovered a far more efficient way to get rid of it. Biochemists led by Tobias Erb at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany, have developed a new, super-efficient method for living organisms to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Plants, algae, and other organisms turn CO2 into fuel. Erb and his colleagues reengineered this process, making it about 25 percent more energy efficient and potentially up to two or three times faster. Joel Mokyr: Progress Isn't Natural - The Atlantic. Uk.businessinsider. The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships so we may get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Shutterstock Editor's Note: This article was originally published on 11/11/2015. We're republishing it today in light of a recent sale. Right now, readers can now take advantage of Udemy's Black Friday deal and enroll in most online courses for just £12. Marrakech climate talks: US accepts petition calling for fossil fuel lobbyists to be excluded.

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