Category: Education
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Bulletproof Whiteboards?
In December, George and his young son were watching the horrific details of the Sandy Hook Elementary School murders on television and when he saw the fear in his son’s eyes, his engineering brain kicked in. He said to his son, “We can fix this. We have to do something.” via TheBlaze.com. Very cool concept.…
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A Few Thoughts On Gun Control « Eudaimonia
This will be detailed and thorough, and I apologize in advance for its length. I also need to clarify that I am not a statistician, lawyer, political analyst, or sociologist. I am merely curious, capable at finding information, and trained in scientific analysis. If there are errors in this, they are not intentional. via A…
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Local Vet Vocal at Anti-Gun Rally
This is a local vet who had some interesting things to say to a professor who didn’t think the Constitution was relevant anymore. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C44B55YYLQ] More to the story can be found here.
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A Marine Writes Sen. Feinstein
Senator Dianne Feinstein, I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who…
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Armed Guards at Schools… Common
Nationwide, at least 23,000 schools — about one-third of all public schools — already had armed security on staff as of the most recent data, for the 2009-10 school year, and a number of states and districts that do not use them have begun discussing the idea in recent days. via NYTimes.com. NRA proposal not…
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Getting Serious About School Security
Treat like a fire. “Come with me to the library at Columbine High School,” Grossman said. “The teacher in the library at Columbine High School spent her professional lifetime preparing for a fire, and we can all agree if there had been a fire in that library, that teacher would have instinctively, reflexively known what…
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New Faces Of Meth
Eight years ago, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office launched a campaign called “the Faces of Meth” to address Oregon’s methamphetamine problem. The images showed the jarring effects of meth on addicts’ faces through before-and-after pictures from their arrest records. Rehabs.com recently followed suit with this infographic. Warning: these images are disturbing. via Business Insider. Ugh.
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A General Lack of Regard for Einstein’s Brain
There’s a story about Einstein’s brain over at the Washington Post. It’s your basic nature vs. nurture about how this guy got to have this unique piece of gray matter between his ears. It appears quite a few Wash. Post readers don’t think much of Ol’ Albert or his accomplishments. One particular genius wrote: He…
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US Out Of The Top 10 In World Prosperity Index
The Legatum Prosperity Index assessed and ranked the prosperity of 142 countries based on eight sub-categories: economy, entrepreneurship and opportunity, health, governance, education, safety and security, personal freedom, and social capital. via Business Insider. We are now 12th. Embarrassing. No wonder people are leaving in droves.