Daily Archives: November 13, 2003

Educating Our Kids

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At a school district near you:

Due to the projected increase in workload in the coming years due to the new master schedule and the No Child Left Behind Act, the district has decided that it can no longer afford for you to take time out of your busy schedule to go to the restroom.
Instead, to increase teacher efficiency the district has gone to considerable expense to remodel your classroom over the summer to accommodate your restroom needs starting in August.
See classroom layout.

Freedom?

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I wonder how soon we can expect this form of freedom in the US?

BAGHDAD, Nov. 11 � American soldiers handcuffed and firmly wrapped masking tape around an Iraqi man’s mouth as they arrested him on Tuesday for speaking out against occupation troops.
Asked why the man had been arrested and put into the back of a Humvee vehicle on Tahrir Square, the commanding officer told Reuters at the scene: ”This man has been detained for making anti-coalition statements.”
He refused to say what the man said.

Via Electrolite.

When you love someone

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Scientists continue to dissect our most intimate and magical feelings:

There are some differences between love-struck men and women, says Fisher. Women in love show more emotional activity earlier on in a relationship. They also seem to quiz their memory regions as they look at pictures of their partner, perhaps paying more attention to their past experience with them.
For men, perhaps unsurprisingly, love looks a little more like lust, with extra activity in visual areas that mediate sexual arousal.

What’s next? Perhaps a handy portable brain activity scanner to test our veracity when we say ‘I love you.’

Technorati Lagging

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Regular Technorati users may have noticed it getting increasingly behind.
James Joyner has the scoop including news of an infrastructure upgrade. Hey, given the number of weblogs and links Technorati is tracking I’m amazed it is staying within a couple days:

1,219,785 weblogs watched.
60,013,930 active links.
101,059,393 links tracked.