The nieces are with their dad during the break.

[conuly]

Which gives me a week to sneak clean their rooms!

Once I get the dried egg off the kitchen floor, and no, I'd rather you didn't ask.

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A strategy that narrows academic achievement gap by 63 percent

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-strategy-narrows-academic-gap-percent.html

Thousands of zoo animals killed in Europe yearly

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-thousands-zoo-animals-europe-yearly.html

South African rescuers try to reach over 200 illegal miners

http://reut.rs/1cMu8CS

One-Child Policy Is One Big Problem for China

http://bit.ly/1avSfdL

Phone sends smelly calls and texts.

People have been talking up computer transmission of smells for about as long as I can remember and still no dice. I'll get excited if and when this hits the market, and then for only as long as it takes for them to be banned in public places due to one too many stink bombs.

http://bit.ly/1nE2nBu

1 out of 4 Americans don't know the earth revolves around the sun.

http://bit.ly/1b3CB9A

“As a patriot, as a guy who grew up in the U.S., if we raise a generation of students who are scientifically illiterate, we’re not gonna have the next iPhone,” Nye explained to Maher. “We’re not gonna have the next innovation.”

http://bit.ly/1jrM22h

How Dark Money Flows Through the Koch Network

http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch

Comments

[waterfall8484]

Thank you!

Looking at 1, 4, 6, and 7.

The one-child policy article is a really interesting read; from an outside, objective viewpoint the ramifications are fascinating to follow.

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

One-Child Policy Is One Big Problem for China

Hm, what's a less sexist term for 'pearl-clutching'?

[conuly]

I... I'm not sure there is one.