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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

[folk.livejournal.com]

Although I couldn't get to the article you linked (O MSNBC, my MSNBC), I find the US insistence on a nationally standardised cursive script almost incredible. I could never do it as a kid, and although I can now (with some limited aspects of consistency), I had to have remedial handwriting lessons when I moved to the UK schooling system at the age of 11, because the chicken-scratch printing that ended up being my primary writing method was that bad. I also quite like the diversity of writing that British people end up with, actually.