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[chromodynamics]

• Education
• Cursive writing rapidly becomes passe
  I found the this interesting, as both a representative for our county is quoted, and my son has taken it upon himself to learn cursive (he's in first grade, and I have no idea what sparked him to do this, but reading this article I am glad that he has).
• Gaming
• Burger King orders up Xbox games
  So while McD's is focusing on healthy food choices and excercise for kids, BK has gone with video games that teach kids how to stalk. wtf?
• Just for Fun
• Top Ten Geek Wallets
  Each of these are interesting, though I don't think I would want to actually carry any of them.
• Linguistics
• FBI agents still lacking Arabic skills
  Only 33 with limited proficiency, that is all they have.  (Also they need Urdu and Farsi speakers.)
• Science
• BECs confound at higher temperatures
  This is mainly for me, I'm not sure anyone else would be interested (though it's very cool!).
• Physicits observe subatomic quick-change artist
  Ditto my comment above.
• Scientists teleport two different objects
  Now this you should look at. Teleporting a macroscopic atomic object over half a meter, while converting between light and matter! Awesome!

Comments

[chromodynamics.livejournal.com]

I too had a lot of practice printing (school notes, yes, but by far thanks to all those years of D&D) and so used cursive rarely, except when I was writing essays and had a lot to say in a little time. For me cursive was always faster, just not my default method of writing.

Yes, I thought the historical aspect, and using handwriting for proof of existence/authorship, was very interesting. If cursive continues to decline, will printed signatures be accepted? I would think that printing would be much easier to forge than cursive, but maybe not. Of course, soon we will have microchips in our fingers or retinal scans and never have to sign anything again...