r we getting dummer?
At the rate things are going, in three thousand years or so we'll be a planet of imbeciles. Imbeciles without coffee. Enjoy life while you can, humans!
It helps that he has a model figure
72 year old Chinese grandpa models girls' clothing for his granddaughter's shop. "Modeling for the store is helping my granddaughter and I have nothing to lose," he said "I’m very old and all that I care about is to be happy."
So I come to school with my shirt inside-out
...after going to my early morning community meeting, also with my shirt inside-out. But the day was only starting. So I was in my office and I decided to take a break and read Gawker but just as I pulled the page up a student walked in to ask about registering for a class, and when …
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Not usually a fan of rage comics, but I liked this illustration of linguistic differences.
Internet dating. It’s like being a kid in a candy store. A candy store full of poisonous snakes.
Fake profile of horrible person attracts swarms of suitors. (However: She's cute). Any evolutionary psychologists want to weigh in on how it's time for the human race to die out already? "It's riddled with typos. This girl clearly lacks the ability to read and write. In the opening paragraph, she kind of quotes Katy Perry …
Coffee makes us happy
A study from Ruhr University in Germany, finds that "caffeine enhances the neural processing of positive words, but not those with neutral or negative associations." It takes about 200 mg of caffeine, or 2-3 cups of coffee, to get those rose-colored glasses onto your brain.
Grades and ethics
Jane Robbins at Inside Higher Ed asks, Is Grade Integrity a Fairness Issue? "It seems that when we stop looking at our own (internal) interests for raising grades [getting better evaluations, making our students look good to employers, avoiding fights with parents and grade appeals from students] it becomes harder to justify grade inflation because …
eBay’s War on Spelling
I hate when that happens.
You know, when you're out playing a round of golf and a shark falls from the sky.
Go to eBay. Search clown doll.
Let the nightmares commence.
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