Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School. Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? Democracy Now! Mobile. JUAN GONZALEZ: As children across the nation head back to school, we turn now to a number of recent developments in education news.
Here in New York, nearly 780 employees of the city’s Education Department will lose their jobs by October in the largest layoff at a single agency since Michael Bloomberg became mayor in 2002. I reported in today’s Daily News that those layoffs are going to be hitting particularly hard the poorest school districts in the city. The layoffs stem from budget cuts to schools, which have occurred in each of the last four years. The cuts have cost more than 2,000 full-time public school teachers their assignments and now threaten the job security of more than 400 school aides and 82 parent coordinators. At last month’s "Save Our Schools" rally in Washington, D.C., education author Jonathan Kozol criticized the drive toward fewer teachers and larger classes. Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better.
If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven’t gotten yet?
For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. Newcounter knowledge is the backbone of society’s progress. Great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others’ quests for knowledge have led society to many of the marvels we enjoy today. Watering Can Designed for Fertilizing Plants with Human Urine. When it comes to gardening, the thought of using organic fertilizers that are free from harsh chemicals seems… well, natural!
But did you know that urine is a fantastic source for natural nitrogen-rich food for your plants? The Swedish start-up Guldkanna has designed Towa, a watering can combined with a chamber pot that can be used to collect, securely store, and distribute your “liquid gold”.
Self Edification. Welcome to Attachment Parenting International. ATTACHMENT PARENTING (AP) Raising Awareness: Why We Shouldn't Take It For Granted. A dangerous thing can occur when you start learning about what's really going on in the world.
The problems start to seem so complex, and you're just one person, doubts begin to creep in. Blackstones Commentaries. Undefined Asking Questions: Everyone is talking about Bills of Particulars, Privacy Act Requests and Freedom on Information Act requests.
Each of these are questions asked to government officials or other agencies when they infringe on the lives of the people. If agencies want to accuse someone of a crime or civil penalty, they must answer the questions put before them by the people they are accusing. The question keeps coming up, "Why should they respond? " The answer given is usually, the Statutes say they must, the U.C.C. says they have to, Title Five of the United States Code requires it, etc. TEDxBerlin - Bernard Lietaer - 11/30/09. Assignment 2: A Personal Cyberinfrastructure. Guitar Chords Magic.
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741 Hz Frequency Awakening Intuition. Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world. Ant mill. An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants separated from the main foraging party lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle.
The ants will eventually die of exhaustion. This has been reproduced in laboratories and the behaviour has also been produced in ant colony simulations.[1] This phenomenon is a side effect of the self-organizing structure of ant colonies. Each ant follows the ant in front of it, and this will work until something goes wrong and an ant mill forms.[2] An ant mill was first described by William Beebe in 1921 who observed a mill 1,200 feet (365 m) in circumference.[3] It took each ant 2.5 hours to make one revolution.[4] Similar phenomena have been noted in processionary caterpillars and fish.[5] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Timelines of History, Today in History, World History. Guitar Articles. EMPIRE17.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) Piano Lessons. INTRODUCTORY LESSON - Page 2 Listen to this Lesson (requires RealPlayer G2) The Keyboard is made up of black keys and white keys.
When looking at the keyboard, you will notice that the black keys are in groups of 2's and 3's. (see picture) The grouping of the black keys will help in identifying the white keys on the next page. When moving to the left on the keyboard, you are moving DOWN to the lower keys. Listen to this Activity Using the Left Hand 2nd and 3rd fingers, play the groups of 2 black keys. Listen to this Activity Using the Right Hand 2nd and 3rd fingers, play the groups of 2 black keys.