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1 austin_blue  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 5:56:10pm

All that man needs is a kick drum and some cymbals between his knees.

Pretty damn amazing.

2 erik_t  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 5:56:19pm

The much-beloved-and-cursed State of [REDACTED] made me replace my license plates this renewal-period. Printed rather than stamped; a flip between ###-XXX and XXX-###.

IS NOTHING SACRED?!

3 researchok  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 5:57:45pm

First time I've ever see/heard anything like that.

Pretty amazing.

4 b_sharp  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 5:59:48pm

Each of his finger tips has its own brain.

5 freetoken  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:04:55pm

One could also say that high school teachers in this country are "ambidextrous" in a manner:

"An Evolving Controversy"

Will a new generation of science standards improve the teaching of science? Writing in the summer 2012 issue of American Educator, Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer, the Pennsylvania State University political science professors who coauthored Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms (Cambridge University Press, 2010), offer (PDF) their view: "We see a rough road ahead for teachers." Noting that A Framework for K-12 Science Education — on which the Next Generation Science Standards now under development are based — emphasizes the centrality of evolution in the life sciences, they note that evolutionary biology is poised to become "much more salient for many teachers who have never before had to teach it." They add, "Understanding the challenges of teaching evolution has increasing relevance, therefore, across the science curriculum and speaks to more general debates concerning the importance of teachers having deep content knowledge."

After discussing the basis for the scientific consensus on evolution, Berkman and Plutzer review the current public opinion polls on teaching evolution and creationism in the public schools, the religious roots of antievolutionism, and their own national poll of public high school biology teachers, which revealed that only 28% are "clear advocates of evolutionary biology," while 13% are advocates of creationism and 60% are in the "cautious middle," many of whom "do not feel like they have the expertise they need to confidently teach evolutionary biology in a rigorous and unapologetic manner." Emphasizing the importance to society of a sound science education, they express hope that "educators will be supported by their administrators and community members so they can teach evolution, climate change, the antiquity of the universe, and any other socially controversial subject with the same commitment to scientific accuracy as when they teach other topics in science."

The American Educator article by Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer is here. From the conclusion of that article:

Why did we find that completing a college-level evolution course is so strongly related to teaching practices? Part of the answer is that many pre-service teachers who do not accept evolution will not select such a course as an elective. Overall, we have found that teachers who expressed creationist beliefs completed fewer courses in biology , were slightly less likely to major in a scientific field, and were considerably less likely to hold a graduate degree in a scientific discipline. However, for the 85 percent of teachers in the cautious middle who accept evolution, the completion of an evolution class provides content knowledge that translates directly into self-confidence. In many districts, teachers understand that each additional class hour devoted to evolution increases the likelihood of offending a student or getting an angry visit from a parent or local minister. Self-confidence is an important factor in how teachers approach these classes. While evolution can be a highly stressful topic, educational psychologists Joyce Griffith and Sarah Brem have shown it is less stressful for those teachers who are more confident and comfortable with the material. So, taking evolution classes before beginning their teaching careers can directly increase teachers’ self-confidence, which lowers their levels of stress heading into the course, and makes them much more likely to teach in ways that live up to the expectations of the National Research Council (and many other scientific societies).

6 freetoken  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:10:03pm

RIP Mr. Giffith:

MP3 Audio
7 freetoken  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:11:42pm

Andy Griffith dead at 86

8 austin_blue  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:12:14pm

Wow. Education and science appear to work.

Shocka!

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

9 prairiefire  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:20:22pm

Happy 4th, ya'll. My family are at the tents as I type, procuring gunpowder.

10 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:21:22pm

re: #9 prairiefire

Happy 4th, ya'll. My family are at the tents as I type, procuring gunpowder.

Just so long as you're not in a forest fire zone!

11 researchok  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:22:14pm

Andy Griffith in No Time for Sergeants

Youtube Video
12 Stanghazi  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:27:01pm

re: #6 freetoken

RIP Mr. Giffith:

[Embedded content]

Lost it with Don Knotts, now ANGE?

13 Stanghazi  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:27:45pm

re: #9 prairiefire

Happy 4th, ya'll. My family are at the tents as I type, procuring gunpowder.

Where??

14 prairiefire  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:28:32pm

re: #10 Interesting Times

Just so long as you're not in a forest fire zone!

No, plenty of concrete to use for a fire proof area. The three of them will probably spend a total of 9 hours at it after it is all over.

15 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:28:57pm

re: #9 prairiefire

Beware the KABOOM!
Happy 4th to you!

16 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:28:59pm
Gay couples in France will legally be able to marry as well as adopt children beginning in 2013, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Tuesday in a speech before Parliament.

"In the first half of 2013, the right to marriage and adoption will be open to all couples, without discrimination. Our society is evolving, lifestyles and mentalities are changing. The government will respond to that."

France24 reports that the speech was interrupted several times, both due to heckling from conservative lawmakers and because one member of parliament suddenly fell ill and had to be helped from the chamber with a cane.

17 erik_t  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:30:03pm

re: #16 goddamnedfrank

They can't adopt yet!?

18 prairiefire  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:31:24pm

re: #15 Dancing along the light of day

Beware the KABOOM!
Happy 4th to you!

*Waves* You, too!

19 freetoken  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:32:04pm

Awaiting the " adaptive redesign for LGF":

Will it feel like a new haircut?

20 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:33:57pm

re: #17 erik_t

They can't adopt yet!?

Too many bigoted old people with canes. They're working on that by making them physically ill with unwelcome news of equality.

21 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:34:14pm

Evening Lizardim. The previous article on Joe Walsh (Dipshit-IL) really set my wife and I off. I just don't understand how someone, LET ALONE someone elected to high office, could say something about a genuine American hero. I mean, what the hell, seriously.

22 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:36:54pm

re: #19 freetoken

Yer gonna get a buzz cut! LOL!

23 prairiefire  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:37:04pm

re: #13 Residence: Hopeandchangeistan 2012

Where??

[Link: mingle.kansascity.com...]

People can make a huge profit selling those things if they buy in bulk. It's dangerous to handle, however. My daughter calls it the Hillbilly Holiday.

24 prairiefire  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:37:28pm

re: #22 Dancing along the light of day

Yer gonna get a buzz cut! LOL!

I bet he already has one.

25 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:38:21pm

re: #23 prairiefire

Moonshine too?

26 freetoken  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:39:39pm

re: #24 prairiefire

I keep my hair shorter as I grow older. Every time I get my hair cut it's like taking 5 years off.

27 erik_t  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:41:38pm

What systemic health care problems?

[NY-27 R candidate] Collins also argued that modern healthcare is expensive for a reason.

"People now don’t die from prostate cancer, breast cancer and some of the other things," Collins said. "The fact of the matter is, our healthcare today is so much better, we’re living so much longer, because of innovations in drug development, surgical procedures, stents, implantable cardiac defibrillators, neural stimulators -- they didn’t exist 10 years ago.

Laugh? Cry? Laughcry?

28 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:43:05pm

re: #19 freetoken

"Adaptive" means the web application automatically adapts itself to the device that's viewing it, and changes the way you interact with it to provide the best experience.

29 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:43:06pm

The Caliphate will be frog friendly
New 'Frog Fatwa': Amphibians Sacrosanct, Croaking Praises Allah

Following the presidential victory of the Muslim Brotherhood's Muhammad Morsi, the very first fatwa to appear by Egypt's highest fatwa council addresses—not social, political, or economic issues in Egypt—but rather frogs. Specifically, it bans Muslims from hunting and killing frogs to sell to those nations that dine on the amphibians. As the fatwa explains, according to Islam's prophet Muhammad as recorded in a hadith, a frog's "croaking is praise [to Allah]." Accordingly, "a number of jurists [fuqaha] have relied on this [hadith] to forbid the eating of frogs, under the notion that 'that which is banned from being killed, is forbidden from being eaten.'"

30 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:43:35pm

re: #21 thedopefishlives

So I shared the Joe Walsh article with my Facebook friends. I guess that means I'm officially out of the closet as a moderate. Sigh. I guess I should be prepared to get disowned.

31 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:45:45pm

Image: 197.jpg
"Safe from the forces of jihad."

32 freetoken  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:50:06pm

Pope taps German theologian to head orthodoxy post

The pope named Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller to head the Vatican's all-important orthodoxy office Monday, tapping a German theologian like himself to head the congregation he presided over for nearly a quarter-century enforcing Catholic doctrine.

The 64-year-old Regensburg bishop replaces American Cardinal William Levada, who turned 76 last month and is retiring after seven years at the helm of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the former Holy Office.

[...]

Naming Mueller as lead negotiator in reconciliation talks certainly can't have come as a welcome development by the society. Yet in a bid to nudge the process forward — and perhaps blunt any negative reaction to a Mueller appointment — Benedict last week tapped a trusted colleague to be the congregation's key No. 2 negotiator.

[...]

It strikes me as the supreme example of double speak, to call The Inquisition's leaders "negotiators".

33 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:50:28pm

If anybody needs me, I'll be in the bunker, sulking. Damn Teabaggers, look what you made me do.

//

34 Stanghazi  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:50:34pm

re: #16 goddamnedfrank

France24 reports that the speech was interrupted several times, both due to heckling from conservative lawmakers and because one member of parliament suddenly fell ill and had to be helped from the chamber with a cane.

Sacre bleu!!

Amazing it's all becoming normal!!

35 prairiefire  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:58:02pm

re: #34 Residence: Hopeandchangeistan 2012

Sacre bleu!!

Amazing it's all becoming normal!!

Panetta ~ repeal of "Don't ask Don't Tell" going well:[Link: www.csmonitor.com...]

36 freetoken  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:59:43pm

I've had this "Letter to the editor" open in a tab since Sunday, pondering:


Mandatory health care? No thanks, Obama

I have not had health insurance since I lost my job five years ago. I cannot afford to pay the premiums of $1,040 a month. Instead, I average $200 a month for doctor's visits, lab work, and drugs. I also take care of myself a lot better than when I had insurance.

In the ever-increasing chance that I suffer a deathly illness, my plan is to die. I have lived a wonderful life, and know that I will live on after my body dies. I do not want my grandchildren to pay for my health care.

Obama likened Obamacare's cost to buying auto insurance. It is not. It is like forcing pedestrians to buy auto insurance. I'd rather pay for the health care I want, and not pay for the health care others want.

David Forthoffer
Eureka

It strikes me as the strongest counter-argument to universal health care initiatives (through whatever methods.) Yet I can understand why the anti-ACA campaigners wouldn't want to be so blunt.

37 b_sharp  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 6:59:46pm

Charles needs to add a twitter timeline to the white space of LGF so we can twitter and comment without leaving the place.

38 erik_t  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:04:05pm

re: #36 freetoken

I've had this "Letter to the editor" open in a tab since Sunday, pondering:

Mandatory health care? No thanks, Obama

Complete rejection of the very concept of a social contract. Par for the course.

39 b_sharp  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:06:12pm

re: #36 freetoken

I've had this "Letter to the editor" open in a tab since Sunday, pondering:

Mandatory health care? No thanks, Obama

It strikes me as the strongest counter-argument to universal health care initiatives (through whatever methods.) Yet I can understand why the anti-ACA campaigners wouldn't want to be so blunt.

Health insurance costs $1040 a month?
Isn't the purpose of the fees to increase the number of users thereby decreasing cost?

This guy figures his best move is to set himself adrift on an ice flow, and that's a good idea?

I question the cost. I question his value system (not everyone who gets sick is old).

40 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:08:44pm

re: #39 b_sharp

Health insurance costs $1040 a month?
Isn't the purpose of the fees to increase the number of users thereby decreasing cost?

This guy figures his best move is to set himself adrift on an ice flow, and that's a good idea?

I question the cost. I question his value system (not everyone who gets sick is old).

I don't question the cost. Depending on the quality of the plan, it can easily cost that much or more.

41 freetoken  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:15:52pm

re: #39 b_sharp

This guy figures his best move is to set himself adrift on an ice flow, and that's a good idea?

Well, that is what he wants. Using your reference to (the possibly occasional) alleged practice of northern peoples to put their failing elderly on ice to wash out to sea isn't too far off from what the writer proposes. Just let him die when his time comes.

42 prairiefire  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:16:56pm

re: #39 b_sharp

I like that "setting himself adrift on an ice flow" imagery very much. A version of going Gault.

43 freetoken  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:17:35pm

Hot burning question of the day: What kind of statement is Kim Kardashian making with her latest fashion choice?

Hideous Kim Kardashian Dress

Looking closely, I wonder what exactly is going on there.

44 b_sharp  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:20:01pm

re: #41 freetoken

Well, that is what he wants. Using your reference to (the possibly occasional) alleged practice of northern peoples to put their failing elderly on ice to wash out to sea isn't too far off from what the writer proposes. Just let him die when his time comes.

I have no problem if that's what he wants to do, but his action shouldn't be taken as a recommendation, and it isn't a solution to high medical costs.

I admit, I am horribly naive about health costs in the US because of the health system I grew up with, but $1000/month is a shock.

45 Kragar  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:20:31pm

re: #43 freetoken

Hot burning question of the day: What kind of statement is Kim Kardashian making with her latest fashion choice?

Hideous Kim Kardashian Dress

Looking closely, I wonder what exactly is going on there.

Its a homage to her film debut.

46 b_sharp  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:21:11pm

re: #43 freetoken

Hot burning question of the day: What kind of statement is Kim Kardashian making with her latest fashion choice?

Hideous Kim Kardashian Dress

Looking closely, I wonder what exactly is going on there.

Alien invasion of the booty snatchers.

47 freetoken  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:21:55pm

re: #45 Kragar

Its a homage to her film debut.

I suspect some won't grok that reference.

48 Kragar  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:23:28pm

re: #47 freetoken

I suspect some won't grok that reference.

You mean they won't know I meant spooge? Thats disappointing.

49 erik_t  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:27:33pm

re: #44 b_sharp

I admit, I am horribly naive about health costs in the US because of the health system I grew up with, but $1000/month is a shock.

I didn't bat an eye.

It'd be cool if I did.

50 b_sharp  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:28:27pm

re: #47 freetoken

I suspect some won't grok that reference.

I don't want to grok anything about her or the rest of her family, and I doubt her role in a multi-take sex tape is Oscar worthy.

That's a lot of spunk. It must be from an Elephant.

51 Kragar  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:29:59pm

re: #50 b_sharp

I don't want to grok anything about her or the rest of her family, and I doubt her role in a multi-take sex tape is Oscar worthy.

That's a lot of spunk. It must be from an Elephant.

Kanye: "Yo, I'm gonna let you finish..."
Elephant: "Too late. You go right ahead."

52 Stanghazi  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:32:05pm

re: #43 freetoken

Hot burning question of the day: What kind of statement is Kim Kardashian making with her latest fashion choice?

Hideous Kim Kardashian Dress

Looking closely, I wonder what exactly is going on there.

Freak with a boatload off her freakdom.

53 Usually refered to as anyways  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:37:10pm

A day of losses

Ferrari designer Pininfarina dies

The Italian godfather of car design, Sergio Pininfarina, renowned for crafting sleek Ferrari race cars and revolutionising the common auto, has died in Italy's motoring capital Turin at the age of 85.

Pininfarina's design company was behind almost every Ferrari since the 1950s, as well as Maseratis, Alfa Romeos, and Fiats.

Born in 1926 near Turin in the industrial north of the country, Pininfarina designed the Ferrari Testarossa, Fiat 124 Spider and Maserati GranTurismo, among others, during his long career.

Pininfarina had "innate talent", said Italian prime minister Mario Monti, adding that the designer "combined the beauty and the quality of the Italian sprit".

More...

54 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:41:21pm

re: #48 Kragar

So, shall I list you under the "Kardashian Hater" category?

55 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jul 3, 2012 7:57:09pm

Now look what you did, freetoken: Your Kim Kardashian post broke the thread!


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