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Post reblogged from When The Evening Pulls The Sun Down
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Photo reblogged from When The Evening Pulls The Sun Down
I think this is on everyone’s minds now…
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Shows how quick information moves through social networking sites and how these sites are becoming the news.
Good find Danny
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Turn off the TV and Take the 2011 Gawker Media Census and Win an iPad 2After last year’s census, we discovered that 45% of you, our favorite schadenfreude-ers, spend 7+ hours a week in front of the boob tube, and that 79.3% regularly watch TV comedies. Seriously, how many Two and a Half Men reruns can you possibly sit through? JK! We’re sure you’re watching the good stuff, like all those super-hilarious episodes of Frontline, right? We kid because we love you. And since you love Gawker, would you take ten minutes to share what things besides TV watching you’re into this year?
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Quote reblogged from Art and Craft of WritingWhenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.Mariah Carey (via svarghese)
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Photo reblogged from When The Evening Pulls The Sun Down
Submitted by trulylovely
Effy is one of the best teen characters I’ve seen on TV (British TV mind you).
(Source: bluelist)
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Why couldn’t our McDonald’s commercials be this awesome?
Note the advertising techniques at work here…kids screaming about Sponge Bob toys. Simple as that.
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America’s alarm about international rankings of students overlooks some critical components of our education system, Vivek Wadhwa says
America has an inferiority complex about its education system. You hear the sirens every year, when the OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) releases its annual test results. Finland, South Korea, and Singapore usually come out on top; we start blaming our K-12 teachers for not teaching enough mathematics and science; we begin worrying about the millions of engineers and scientists China and India graduate.
This year the big surprise was that Shanghai garnered first place in the PISA rankings. Then The Wall Street Journal ran a story on the home page of its website titled “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.” The Journal article claimed that Chinese (and Korean, Indian, etc.) parents raise “stereotypically successful kids”—math whizzes and music prodigies. They do this by not allowing their children to attend sleepovers; have a playdate; be in a school play; complain about not being in a school play; watch TV or play computer games; choose their own extracurricular activities; get any grade less than an A; not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama. The article went on to recount as typical a series of acts that would be considered child abuse in the U.S. (and aren’t the norm in India and China).
More here: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2011/tc20110112_006501.htm
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Egypt Sentences Blogger to 3 Years
By LIAM STACK and ETHAN BRONNER
Published: April 11, 2011
CAIRO — An Egyptian blogger was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for criticizing the military in what human rights advocates called one of the more alarming violations of freedom of expression since a popular uprising led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak two months ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/world/middleeast/12egypt.html
