The price for take-out is the same as the price for dining in. There is no extra charge for allowing you to stay, so the implied contract does not preclude the restaurant from throwing you out.
There are over 50 million school-aged kids in the US and hour of code is only trying to reach 10 million of them. K-12 is just shorthand for grade school. It doesn't mean that they're trying to teach kids in kindergarten how to code before they learn to read. They're putting it out there and it's up to teachers to decide whether it's appropriate for their classes.
Aside from that, if you'd looked at the Angry Birds example given, you'd have also seen that you don't actually write anything in Javascript, Ruby or any other programming language. Zuckerberg's example has absolutely nothing to do with that exercise and isn't going to confuse the kids going through it.
The submitter wrote an ill-informed rant (probably more because hating Zuckerberg is cool these days than any genuine anger) and went directly to "think of the children" to distract from the fact that the hour of code is not about teaching kids to code (you can't do that in one hour). The goal is to introduce make it clear that coding is an important skill to learn and show that the basic concepts of coding are easy to learn.
tl;dr The submitter is a moron and you believed everything in his idiotic rant.
"Science has a much publicized reproducibility problem" links to an article that says "as many as 17â"25% of such findings are probably false", but a group reproducing 10 out of 13 experiments (23% not replicable) is striking a blow for reproducibility?
Eh... the problem is that "art" has nothing to do with the students' improvement and the title of the article makes it sound as if that were the claim. "Art" and "art education" are not the same thing and art education is what actually benefited the students.
One group of students was taken to an art museum and given a tour which, if you've ever been on a school trip to a museum, is basically a way of teaching critical thinking skills. The other group was not given that lesson.
What a surprise that the former group would then do better when evaluated on critical thinking skills.
Art, in and of itself, doesn't do much for students. The benefit comes from the teacher who teaches students the critical thinking skills involved in analyzing and interpreting art. The same skills can be taught in other ways, but interpreting art is a very convenient way to teach them since art interpretation doesn't require a lot of prerequisite skills (though you do need the cultural background, thus the emphasis on art from western cultures in the US).
That's some range there. But I guess since it "binds tightly to soil", it will not leach into ground water. Oh wait, it does. Maybe it just washes out and does not "bind tightly to soil" as claimed, which explains that massive, massive range.
My point is that the summary is written as if all of those treatments are completely impossible without antibiotics. That's a lie. Without antibiotics, there would be a higher rate of death from infections, but that doesn't mean we can't treat a kid who falls out of a tree (one of the specific examples given by the summary).
Antibiotic resistance is a serious issue, but a lot of the summary is hysterical nonsense.
Dialysis patients are more susceptible to infections, but dialysis doesn't require antibiotics. Even if all antibiotics disappeared tomorrow, they would still go on having dialysis. The possibility that they might get an infection that kills them is far less than the absolute certainty that they would die without dialysis.
In the same vein, surgery, implanted devices and treatment for accidents also don't require antibiotics, even though they are usually given proactively to prevent infection. Nobody is going to let someone bleed to death rather than risk causing an infection by suturing a wound.
Yes, antibiotic resistance means more people dying from infections, but it's not some enormous apocalypse that prevents all medical treatment and automatically infects and kills everyone in the hospital.
It also tends to accentuate the fact that the author of the article is doing little more than reciting a press release from an insurance company since only the marketing department would willingly choose seconds as a unit in order to say they have a trillion of them.
Well, you've demonstrated what I said; DDT is still in use globally.
As for the rest of what you're trying to imply, here's an article which points out all of the factors that combined to cause both the increase and decrease in malaria in South Africa that your article leaves out: http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2005/09/28/ddt-use-in-south-africa/
Yeah, that's the point where you really proved that you don't know what you're talking about.
DDT was not banned from the world, only the US. The US does not have millions of deaths from malaria.
In point of fact, DDT is still in use around the world. Unfortunately, mosquitoes have developed resistance to it and humans haven't. The decline is DDT usage is not due to the US banning it, but rather due to the fact that it's not working very well anymore and the health problems it causes for humans are beginning to outweigh the benefits.
Wow. You didn't even manage to read through to the second sentence of the summary: "The screeners, who earn up to $30,000 annually, have not requested to carry guns themselves, but they do want an armed security officer present at every checkpoint."
Further down, there's a similar question that shows a number, a group of pennies and an empty box that asks for the missing part. The kid drew in the missing pennies to make the number of pennies equal the given total.
In question one, the cup takes the place of the box and it would hold the missing pennies required to add up to the given number, so the total in the cup is one, not six.
You have the right answer, but interpreted the question incorrectly. If you, as an adult, were confused by the question, why would you expect five year olds to not be confused and make mistakes?
every time you fertilize your garden and some rain falls, it'll set off the alarm.
Not true.
The storm drains don't empty into the sewer drains in any modern city with sewerage treatment. Rain water doesn't need to be treated like sewerage and nobody needs sewerage tainted water overflowing the treatment plant every time there's a heavy storm.
The sensors are a bad idea for many other reasons, but fertilizing your garden isn't one of them.
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The price for take-out is the same as the price for dining in. There is no extra charge for allowing you to stay, so the implied contract does not preclude the restaurant from throwing you out.
There are over 50 million school-aged kids in the US and hour of code is only trying to reach 10 million of them. K-12 is just shorthand for grade school. It doesn't mean that they're trying to teach kids in kindergarten how to code before they learn to read. They're putting it out there and it's up to teachers to decide whether it's appropriate for their classes.
Aside from that, if you'd looked at the Angry Birds example given, you'd have also seen that you don't actually write anything in Javascript, Ruby or any other programming language. Zuckerberg's example has absolutely nothing to do with that exercise and isn't going to confuse the kids going through it.
The submitter wrote an ill-informed rant (probably more because hating Zuckerberg is cool these days than any genuine anger) and went directly to "think of the children" to distract from the fact that the hour of code is not about teaching kids to code (you can't do that in one hour). The goal is to introduce make it clear that coding is an important skill to learn and show that the basic concepts of coding are easy to learn.
tl;dr The submitter is a moron and you believed everything in his idiotic rant.
"Science has a much publicized reproducibility problem" links to an article that says "as many as 17â"25% of such findings are probably false", but a group reproducing 10 out of 13 experiments (23% not replicable) is striking a blow for reproducibility?
Police in monster trucks will be allowed to drive over top of anyone caught texting while driving.
Eh... the problem is that "art" has nothing to do with the students' improvement and the title of the article makes it sound as if that were the claim. "Art" and "art education" are not the same thing and art education is what actually benefited the students.
One group of students was taken to an art museum and given a tour which, if you've ever been on a school trip to a museum, is basically a way of teaching critical thinking skills. The other group was not given that lesson.
What a surprise that the former group would then do better when evaluated on critical thinking skills.
Art, in and of itself, doesn't do much for students. The benefit comes from the teacher who teaches students the critical thinking skills involved in analyzing and interpreting art. The same skills can be taught in other ways, but interpreting art is a very convenient way to teach them since art interpretation doesn't require a lot of prerequisite skills (though you do need the cultural background, thus the emphasis on art from western cultures in the US).
Hey Neighbor,
I chewed up some sweet potatoes, spit them into a pot and left it sitting for a week or so. Wanna come over and have some? ...
And somehow this is now a tradition.
That's some range there. But I guess since it "binds tightly to soil", it will not leach into ground water. Oh wait, it does. Maybe it just washes out and does not "bind tightly to soil" as claimed, which explains that massive, massive range.
No, it doesn't. You're actually just making shit up to explain a number you don't understand. Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Environmental_fate
There are lots of problems with glyphosate usage, but Monsanto isn't lying when they say it binds tightly to soil.
Just send rabid ones, then. They're going to die anyway. At least they'll do some good before they do.
My point is that the summary is written as if all of those treatments are completely impossible without antibiotics. That's a lie. Without antibiotics, there would be a higher rate of death from infections, but that doesn't mean we can't treat a kid who falls out of a tree (one of the specific examples given by the summary).
Antibiotic resistance is a serious issue, but a lot of the summary is hysterical nonsense.
Dialysis patients are more susceptible to infections, but dialysis doesn't require antibiotics. Even if all antibiotics disappeared tomorrow, they would still go on having dialysis. The possibility that they might get an infection that kills them is far less than the absolute certainty that they would die without dialysis.
In the same vein, surgery, implanted devices and treatment for accidents also don't require antibiotics, even though they are usually given proactively to prevent infection. Nobody is going to let someone bleed to death rather than risk causing an infection by suturing a wound.
Yes, antibiotic resistance means more people dying from infections, but it's not some enormous apocalypse that prevents all medical treatment and automatically infects and kills everyone in the hospital.
It also tends to accentuate the fact that the author of the article is doing little more than reciting a press release from an insurance company since only the marketing department would willingly choose seconds as a unit in order to say they have a trillion of them.
Well, you've demonstrated what I said; DDT is still in use globally.
As for the rest of what you're trying to imply, here's an article which points out all of the factors that combined to cause both the increase and decrease in malaria in South Africa that your article leaves out:
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2005/09/28/ddt-use-in-south-africa/
I prefer my carp (and all other fish) to be unburned.
millions of deaths from malaria
Yeah, that's the point where you really proved that you don't know what you're talking about.
DDT was not banned from the world, only the US. The US does not have millions of deaths from malaria.
In point of fact, DDT is still in use around the world. Unfortunately, mosquitoes have developed resistance to it and humans haven't. The decline is DDT usage is not due to the US banning it, but rather due to the fact that it's not working very well anymore and the health problems it causes for humans are beginning to outweigh the benefits.
Well, no. The Sun God laid back and chilling out, thus the low level of activity.
Every thinks a virus will cause the Zombie Apocalypse
You're out of date. We've moved on to the idea that it will be a fungus from the Cordyceps genus.
I think you dictionary is broken
I think you grammar is broken.
The solution would be to host it with a commercial host instead of using the univervisities systems.
I guess you didn't bother to look at the link to the blog: http://csufacultyvoice.blogspot.com/
blogspot.com is not the universty's server.
8-bit porn music starts playing.
Maybe use money improve English education too.
"The screeners ... have not requested to carry guns themselves"
Wow. You didn't even manage to read through to the second sentence of the summary:
"The screeners, who earn up to $30,000 annually, have not requested to carry guns themselves, but they do want an armed security officer present at every checkpoint."
Further down, there's a similar question that shows a number, a group of pennies and an empty box that asks for the missing part. The kid drew in the missing pennies to make the number of pennies equal the given total.
In question one, the cup takes the place of the box and it would hold the missing pennies required to add up to the given number, so the total in the cup is one, not six.
You have the right answer, but interpreted the question incorrectly. If you, as an adult, were confused by the question, why would you expect five year olds to not be confused and make mistakes?
every time you fertilize your garden and some rain falls, it'll set off the alarm.
Not true.
The storm drains don't empty into the sewer drains in any modern city with sewerage treatment. Rain water doesn't need to be treated like sewerage and nobody needs sewerage tainted water overflowing the treatment plant every time there's a heavy storm.
The sensors are a bad idea for many other reasons, but fertilizing your garden isn't one of them.
Can I expect to be able to access my collection of e-books in 40 years? I highly doubt that
The first ebook was made available in 1971. Here we are 42 years later and it's still available.
Your doubts are unfounded. Stop spreading FUD.