University of Texas .. Are the Top 7% from low income schools as able as the 7% from high income schools? (Cross Post from The-Ave.US) This is a phenomenal article on an effort at the University of Texas to assist students from economic, as opposes to racial, minorities. M[...]
Archive for May, 2014
May 15th, 2014 - 12:56 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
UT Austin shows that income disparity is the major obstacle to kids success in college
May 15th, 2014 - 11:20 am § in Misc.
EGYPT: Reconciliation
The Man Who Wants to Fix Egyptian Society Mohammed el-Mahdi is Egypt’s new minister for reconciliation. He’s fighting to create a new country, even as society fragments. It’s an uphill task in a land where the military is expanding its power and younger generations are digging th[...]
May 15th, 2014 - 4:25 am § in Misc.
Five Months to Scots Independence Day
Scotland may be just four months from a referendum to separate itself from what will then become a Lesser Britain or perhaps just plain England. A poll reported last month in The Scots man reports that the No vote has declined from 46 per cent to 42 per cent in April. The Yes vote has remaine[...]
May 15th, 2014 - 4:11 am § in Politics
Is Rubio Chanelling Mr. Spock?
Rubio: I am Ready To Be President, Climate Change Caused by Man, Clinton Mrs. Gets an ‘F’ By LUCY MCCALMONT | 5/11/14 12:00 PM EDT Article Comments (0) <span class=”mceItemHidden” data-mce-bogus=”1″> &amp;lt;a href=”http://ad.doubleclick.ne[...]
May 15th, 2014 - 4:01 am § in The Ave Scene
Death, slow death, of the Seattle Times
My wife and I cancelled our subscription to the Seattle Times a couple of years ago when we realized we were only buying it for the Wednesday food ads. What little reading was left outside of the QFC and Safeway pages was rehash of news we had already read online or in our subscriptions to [&helli[...]
May 14th, 2014 - 11:46 am § in Misc.
AAUP: Why don’t Seattle’s Wealthy Provide Scholarships?
Robert, this idea leaves me with a taste of Dickens’ England. It seems to me that there is a much better chance that Seattle’s uber wealthy could be encouraged to create a scholarship for Washington’s best students just as their colleague Phil Knight in Oregon supports the best O[...]
May 14th, 2014 - 10:45 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Gas weapons still in use by Syria!
Syrian Regime Hasn’t Abandoned Chemical Weapons Despite its pledge to eliminate chemical weapons, the Assad regime is attacking towns and villages with chlorine gas bombs. SPIEGEL visited the communities hit by the most recent bombings to interview victims, doctors and eyewitnesses. By Christo[...]
Russia Rejects US as Tenant for the International Space Station
Russia to ban US from using International Space Station amid Ukraine crisis Under current plans, the international Space Station is to be decommissioned in 2020. The US has moved to extend that to 2024, but with the end of the US shuttle program, extending the life of the ISS is dependent on Russi[...]
May 14th, 2014 - 3:46 am § in Uncategorized
Will Age Do The UK In … Or Will Immigration Save The Brits?
Ageing population pushes welfare bill to crisis point – Telegraph This is an excellent and MUST READ article from the Telegraph, citing latest research from the the OECD. via Ageing population pushes welfare bill to crisis point – Telegraph… 178 more words[...]
A Devout Catholic Runs America’s Biological Research
Does Religion Matter? Francis Collins is the director of the National Institutes of Health. Collins has been controversial among scientists because he has held this position while also being an outspoken believer in te literal truth of the Christian Bible and, apparently, a fervent supporter of the[...]