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U.S. State Science Standards Are “Mediocre to Awful”
“A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute paints a grim picture of state science standards across the United States. But it also reveals some intriguing details about exactly what’s going wrong with the way many American students are learning science.”
http://www.lookdumbass.com/2012/02/02/scavenger-hunt-is-this-your-mcdonalds-pink-slime-meat/
Turns out they don’t know where the photo came from, so they don’t know what it actually is? i think it’s interesting (but still very gross that whatever it is exists.
OMG I literally sent these 2 links to so many people yesterday.
http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/msm.asp
Picture^
http://www.snopes.com/business/market/allbeef.asp
McDonald’s 100% Beef^
BEFORE YOU BELIEVE IT, SNOPES IT.
Spitzer Discovers Largest Ring Around Saturn
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn – by far the largest of the giant planet’s many rings.
The new belt lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system, with an orbit tilted 27 degrees from the main ring plane. The bulk of its material starts about six million kilometers away from the planet and extends outward roughly another 12 million kilometers. One of Saturn’s farthest moons, Phoebe, circles within the newfound ring, and is likely the source of its material.
Saturn’s newest halo is thick, too – its vertical height is about 20 times the diameter of the planet. It would take about one billion Earths stacked together to fill the ring. The ring itself is tenuous, made up of a thin array of ice and dust particles. Spitzer’s infrared eyes were able to spot the glow of the band’s cool dust.
The ring would be difficult to see with visible-light telescopes. Its particles are diffuse and may even extend beyond the bulk of the ring material all the way in to Saturn and all the way out to interplanetary space. The relatively small numbers of particles in the ring wouldn’t reflect much visible light, especially out at Saturn where sunlight is weak.
Spitzer was able to sense the glow of the cool dust, which is only about 80 Kelvin (minus 316 degrees Fahrenheit). Cool objects shine with infrared, or thermal radiation; for example, even a cup of ice cream is blazing with infrared light. By focusing on the glow of the ring’s cool dust, Spitzer made it easy to find.
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"He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it."
Franz Kafka (via kafkaesque-world)
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"You can tell them that maybe it’s good they don’t “get” Kafka. You can ask them to imagine his stories as all about a kind of door. To envision us approaching and pounding on this door, increasingly hard, pounding and pounding, not just wanting admission but needing it; we don’t know what it is but we can feel it, this total desperation to enter, pounding and ramming and kicking. That, finally, the door opens … and it opens outward — we’ve been inside what we wanted all along."
David Foster Wallace, “Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed”
Read it here.
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Nine Inch Nails - Into the Void
"Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."
Ecclesiastes 1:2 (NIV)
(Source: armageddon-in-retrospect, via absurdreasoning)
chairolyn replied to your post: “PHIL 3616 - Leibniz: Unicorns to Universes” Sign…
real?! real.
Oh yes, it’s real.
“PHIL 3616 - Leibniz: Unicorns to Universes”
Sign me up, please.
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Eyedea - Here For You
