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Ten Rules Kids Won't Learn In School

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:14:01 GMT

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Ten Rules Kids Won't Learn In School

via The Prairie Rambler, February 1998

1. Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teenager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 86 times a day.

2. The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as your school does. This may come as a shock.

3. Sorry, but you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone, either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a designer label.

4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss.

5. Flipping burgers is not beneath dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping. They called it opportunity.

6. It's not your parents fault if you mess up. You're responsible! This is the flip side of "It's my life" and "You're not my boss."

7. Before you were born your parents were not boring. They got that way paying your bills and listening to you.

8. Life is not divided into semesters. And you don't get summers off. Not even spring break. You are expected to show up every day for eight hours; and you don't get a new life every 10 weeks.

9. Smoking does not make you look cool. Watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20.

10. Your school may be "outcome-based," but life is not. In some schools, you're given as many times as you want to get the answer right. Standards are set low enough so everyone can meet them. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life—as you will find out.

Good luck! You are going to need it—
and the harder you work, the luckier you will get.

Tags: ten rules kids won't learn in school, parenting, children, reality, life

Julia Child memorialized in giant corn field maze

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:08:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mikesmaze.com

Mike's Maze at Warner Farm

Each year we carve a new design into our cornfield. This year's design features a portrait of Julia Child. Julia was a longtime Massachusetts resident and a graduate of Smith College in Northampton. We hope her delightful spirit will infuse the maze as we carry on our tradition of playing with and in food.

Mike's Maze•413-665-8331•25 South Main Street, Sunderland, Massachusetts 01375

Tags: julia child, chef, cooking, corn, farm, maze, funny, massachusetts

Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:07:22 GMT

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Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft

Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows Programs available for download -- but finding them all is extremely difficult. Until now, thanks to the Road to Know Where!

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Experts warn U.S. is coming apart at the seams

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:32:54 GMT

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Experts warn U.S. is coming apart at the seams

Saturday, August 26, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

By Chuck McCutcheon

Newhouse News Service

WASHINGTON — A pipeline shuts down in Alaska. Equipment failures disrupt air travel in Los Angeles. Electricity runs short at a spy agency in Maryland.

None of these recent events resulted from a natural disaster or terrorist attack, but they may as well have, some homeland security experts say. They worry that too little attention is paid to how fast the country's basic operating systems are deteriorating.

"When I see events like these, I become concerned that we've lost focus on the core operational functionality of the nation's infrastructure and are becoming a fragile nation, which is just as bad — if not worse — as being an insecure nation," said Christian Beckner, a Washington analyst who runs the respected Web site Homeland Security Watch (www.christianbeckner.com).

The American Society of Civil Engineers last year graded the nation "D" for its overall infrastructure conditions, estimating that it would take $1.6 trillion over five years to fix the problem.

"I thought [Hurricane] Katrina was a hell of a wake-up call, but people are missing the alarm," said Casey Dinges, the society's managing director of external affairs.

Tags: us infrastructure, aiport, power, alaska pipeline

You are made of space-time

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:47:47 GMT

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You are made of space-time

LEE SMOLIN is no magician. Yet he and his colleagues have pulled off one of the greatest tricks imaginable. Starting from nothing more than Einstein's general theory of relativity, they have conjured up the universe. Everything from the fabric of space to the matter that makes up wands and rabbits emerges as if out of an empty hat.

It is an impressive feat. Not only does it tell us about the origins of space and matter, it might help us understand where the laws of the universe come from. Not surprisingly, Smolin, who is a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, is very excited. "I've been jumping up and down about these ideas," he says.

The origins of loop quantum gravity can be traced back to the 1980s, when Abhay Ashtekar, now at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, rewrote Einstein's equations of general relativity in a quantum framework. Smolin and Carlo Rovelli of the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, France, later developed Ashtekar's ideas and discovered that in the new framework, space is not smooth and continuous but instead comprises indivisible chunks just 10^-35 metres in diameter. Loop quantum gravity then defines space-time as a network of abstract links that connect these volumes of space, rather like nodes linked on an airline route map.

Tags: space, time, quantum looping, quantum theory, physics, penn state

Scientists have found a way to trick cancer cells into committing suicide.

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:39:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

Synthetic molecule causes cancer cells to self-destruct

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists have found a way to trick cancer cells into committing suicide. The novel technique potentially offers an effective method of providing personalized anti-cancer therapy. Most living cells contain a protein called procaspase-3, which, when activated, changes into the executioner enzyme caspase-3 and initiates programmed cell death, called apoptosis. In cancer cells, however, the signaling pathway to procaspase-3 is broken. As a result, cancer cells escape destruction and grow into tumors.

The work was funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the University of Illinois.

Tags: cancer, medicine, research

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Ten Rules Kids Won't Learn In School

Ten Rules Kids Won't Learn In School

Good luck! You are going to need it— and the harder you work, the luckier you will get.

Julia Child memorialized in giant corn field maze

Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft

Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft

Experts warn U.S. is coming apart at the seams

Experts warn U.S. is coming apart at the seams

You are made of space-time

You are made of space-time

Scientists have found a way to trick cancer cells into committing suicide.

Synthetic molecule causes cancer cells to self-destruct

Good luck! You are going to need it—
and the harder you work, the luckier you will get.