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POPSFuture 'Top 10' Hot Careers in 2012 5) Simulation Engineering By 2012, an increase in processing power and rich data will make simulations more realistic, and user-friendly. Simulation engineers will be working on bringing us closer to “Star Trek’s” Holodecks—the ultimate total immersion simulation. Simulations will be in every industry and every engineering field, 6) Boomer Caregiving 7) Genetic Counseling 8) Brain Analysts 9) Space Tourism 10) Roboticists
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POPSMOVE OVER, BUBBA, YOU'VE BEEN DETHRONED 2. "OK, I slept with her. But I did not love her." Slippery John said that last night on "Nightline" - as if denying affection for the woman who shared his bed, while his wife still breathed, makes him less of an ogre. It doesn't. Answer: He loves no one but himself. It's true. 3. "Rielle's kiddie might look like me. But she's not my daughter." How can you know a child's paternity if you haven't taken a test? How can one ever learn the truth from a guy who admits he lied, repeatedly - to his wife, his mistress, and to the nation - about where he spent his sweaty nights? Answer: Undetermined. You decide. 4. "I told my wife of the affair back in 2006 - and she said OK!" What a complete jerk. Answer: Are you kidding me? 5. "Before I did the nasty with Rielle, I made sure that my wife was in remission from cancer!"
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POPSPhysics Proves It: Everyone Should Shoot Granny-Style Judging by mechanics alone, just about every foul shot should be a winner. “There’s nothing simpler in basketball, because you can take all the time you want to make it, and there’s nobody waving his arms in front of you trying to block you,” says Peter Brancazio, a physics professor emeritus from Brooklyn College and author of SportsScience: Physical Laws and Optimum Performance. “It’s like bowling. You do exactly the same thing over and over and over again.” Yet while Barry can easily sink 9 out of 10 shots, other players fall far short. The late Wilt Chamberlain, for instance, could shoot a basket from just about anywhere on the court—except when he toed up to the line 15 feet from the hoop. There, the legendary “Big Dipper” sank barely 5 of 10 shots, one of the lowest percentages in professional basketball.
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POPSNewsweek: Education system is broken As a former NYC teaching fellow (similar program to Teach for America), I agree: 1. The educational system is broken. 2. The impact of an uneducated populace cannot be underestimated. However, I strongly disagree that teachers are the single most important factor in student achievement. As a teacher in a crisis school (and now a parent), I strongly believe that PARENTS are the single most important factor in student achievement. Quality teachers ARE correlated with student achievement, because the best teachers find the highest job satisfaction in working with families that embrace the responsibility of learning. Schools with responsible, engaged parents CAN and do attract and retain good teachers. The key to solving the educational crisis is to engage and equip parents LONG before their children reach school age, since the first 5 years are the most critical years of development. For one creative way to do just that, check out tumblon.com.
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POPSWould you like to know your gender? i like it, mainly because i believe that through observations of patterns one may discover many things... BTW i am 84% male and 16% female (or was it the other way around ?-)-- try it.
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POPSExternalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone’s Kids kids exposed to kids exposed to domestic violence also have lower test scores and more disciplinary infractions. Around 70 percent of the classes in their sample have at least one kid exposed to domestic violence. The authors compare the outcomes of that kid’s classmates with their counterparts in the same school and the same grade in a previous or subsequent year — when there were no kids exposed to family violence — finding large negative effects. ...
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POPSSomeone needs a trip to Teleprompter's Are Us and Some Remedial Math
Properly inflating your tires can improve gas mileage by 3%. Let's be generous and assume that one-half of the total possible savings would be realized if we all inflated our tires properly. Americans drive approximately 2,880 billion miles per year. If we average 24 mpg, we use around 120 billion gallons of gasoline in our vehicles. If, through perfect tire inflation, we improved our collective fuel efficiency by 1.5%, that would be 1.8 billion gallons. A barrel of oil produces around 20 gallons of gasoline, so the total savings available through tire inflation is approximately 90,000,000 barrels of oil annually. How does this stack up against "all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling?" ANWR: 10 billion barrels Outer Continental Shelf: 18 billion barrels Oil shale: 1 trillion barrels So, on the above assumptions, it would take only 11,308 years of proper tire inflation to equal "all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling."
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POPSNumbers show girls as good at math as boys "Decades ago, girls took fewer advanced math and science courses, and those who did posted lower scores. The old line of thinking seemed to say: Girls, who don't like math and aren't good at it, should shy away from those brainy courses."
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POPSCrude Senatorial Loggerheads Part of what's confusing Reid and his ilk is the distinction between speculation and manipulation. Speculation isn't a bad thing. Indeed, it's a very good thing. Without speculators, you'd only have natural hedgers participating in commodity futures markets. Prices would be much less stable and market participants with unwanted inherent exposure to those prices (including farmers, airlines, manufacturers, retailers, and shareholders and customers of the whole lot) would have a much harder time offloading that undue risk. In short, speculators are a crucial part of a robust marketplace that moves us toward a more optimal allocation of risk. Without them, the liquidity and efficiency of the marketplace suffers and so does every participant in that market (which definitely includes you) Market manipulation involves deceptive and distortive practices intended to take unfair advantage of other market participants.
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POPSNo Gender Differences In Math Performance Thirty years of teaching taught me that all students have strengths. Find them and let them develop, was my hope with each kid. Gender just isn't a factor, except for these incorrect precepts based on the fact that religions won't allow that most women are anything but evil and should not be educated.
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POPSObama gets his history wrong... again His knowledge of history is just as faulty as his knowledge of math, geography, and languages... those who don't know history are bound to repeat it and that is the problem...
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