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My mistake, forgot to include the link: https://vimeo.com/97270099

Watched a great documentary on the Barkley awhile back. I've done a city full and a trail half marathon, but its mindblowing to comprehend just how rough this race is. For those no…

Have to agree here... my company even develops primarily for Win8, so its not as if I'm not used to using it, but I still vastly prefer Windows 7.

Wish a Windows version was incoming as well. Alas, I'll have to make do with Googling various phrases whenever I want to try and find a webpage I recall seeing and want to find aga…

Thanks for pointing that out; I didn't mean to imply that only people with serious advantages get left behind "you might just come from a social/family background that encourages y…

DARE and a lot of programs like it have been shows, time and again, to be fairly ineffective. Hell, the DARE program was, in 2001 (curriculum may have changed since then, I don't k…

That, unfortunately, kind of comes with the territory of a site where most users likely don't face those issues on a daily basis. I, fortunately, can say that I'm privilaged enough…

Clearly you've never dealt with an addiction before. For some people cigarettes aren't just an expensive 'vice', they're a physical need due to chemical dependency. It certainly do…

Looking at the actual situation in countires, though, this is kind of a false argument. Take Africa. Given that there were only two uncolonized countries, the sample size there is …

I haven't actually poured through the data set linked in the article, but skimming it gives the impression that it includes a variety of images from 1964-70, which seems to me like…

I do think, though, that as lake99 pointed out there could be TREMENDOUS value in this. Extending our image record a full 17 years is has enormous scientific value. It gave example…

Always found that strange as well. I've always loved being a runner in Seattle because its generally cool, cloudy, and often light rain. To me that's the perfect weather for a run …

"and therefore making every worker's skill and experience important, instead of them being just a replaceable cog" Problem with this is that most workers don't have the skills and …

I wholeheartedly agree that strong moderation does a LOT to foster strong communities, and frankly very positive ones. Both of my favorite subreddits do this very well, as does my …

Big problem with this. Particularly with dining plans, many of which don't refund at the end of the term/academic year and are required for the dorms. You want to be thrifty and on…

Crows as well. One radio report I recall discussed how they not only recognize human faces but can inform others about individuals that threaten them. The researcher who was featur…

As I said, maybe one since the Cold War. I knew South Sudan, but didn't think about Timor-leste. So if you take out the various eastern bloc states breaking up that's only two new …

I'm not surprised at all... It's not every day that a country democratically permits succession. There has only been, what? One new country since the end of the Cold War? Further, …

One of the big issues with the testing argument is that, the way common core is implemented at least, it produces no real meaningful change from past failed testing initiatives lik…

Exactly this. From what I recall, and from what I hear from several relatives and acquantances who have been teaching for years, is that traditionally the ratio was roughly 70-30 '…

I've read interviews previously where Gates has spoke wonders of the benefits of the school allowing kids more freedom for things like coding, of a well-rounded background in thing…

"To his bafflement and frustration, he has become a remarkably polarizing figure in the education world." There's kind of a reason for this. If you're going to spend hundreds of mi…