Assessing Older Students for Hidden Skills
What Every School Can Learn From Preschools The authors argue that non-academic skills aren’t coded into DNA and can be taught, or at least cultivated. ‘Melissa Tooley and Laura Bornfreund of the New...
View ArticleTerrorists Using Social Media to Find Targets
Feds to US Troops: ISIS May Use Social Media to Find You ‘In a joint intelligence bulletin issued overnight by the FBI with the Department of Homeland Security, officials strongly urged those who serve...
View ArticleThe Disgusting “Rich Private School Kids” Snapchat [Photos]
Christmas Tree Made from Dried Grass (see link below) UPDATE: The moderator for the ‘richkidsnaps’ Snapchat account spoke to BuzzFeed and answered our questions about the page controversy. ‘There is a...
View ArticleFinally, the First Hi-Tech US President
Obama Becomes First President to Write a Computer Program ‘Earlier today, to help kick-off the annual Computer Science Education Week, Obama became the first president ever to write a computer program....
View ArticleSharing Facebook post 200,000 times leads to arrest
‘Jeremiah Malfroid was wanted for allegedly downloading and distributing child pornography. The 33-year-old surrendered Monday to local authorities in Oroville, Calif. ‘On Dec. 9, a post appeared on...
View ArticleThe $30,000 Apple Watch for the Filthy Rich
‘If you thought $5,000 was too much for a luxury Apple Watch, then this show of excess really ought to smack your gob: Mervis Diamond Importers just opened pre-orders for its diamond-flanked Apple...
View ArticleNow It’s Criminal Robots
Robots are starting to break the law and nobody knows what to do about it ‘The Random Darknet Shopper, an automated online shopping bot with a budget of $100 a week in Bitcoin, is programmed to do a...
View ArticleAnnual Physical Check-ups Worthless
‘Around 45 million Americans are likely to have a routine physical this year — just as they have for many years running. A poke here, a listen there, a few tubes of blood, maybe an X-ray, a few...
View ArticleThe Swedish 666 Office
‘Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of the tenants, arrives at the front door and holds his hand against it to gain entry. Inside he does the same thing to get into the office space he rents, and...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn’t Hand an iPad to Your Toddler
‘Study finds that for children too young, mobile devices can harm Researchers with the Boston University School of Medicine have now weighed in on those questions in a new set of recommendations...
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