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by fiftyfifty 7y ago
There are simply fewer kids, people have been having less children, getting married later or not at all etc: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/12/06/high-school-g...
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I wonder how much e-cigarettes and vaping helped with the drop in smoking and lung cancer in recent years. While still not great for you it's much better than smoking.
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This kind of behavior in single celled organisms leads me to believe that there is a fair amount of complex logic handled by individual neurons in the brain, that is currently not being modeled in the state of the art neural networks. The
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The challenges to the education system go way deeper than just a better curriculum. I was speaking to a local administrator last week in our fairly affluent community and she estimated that about 10% of the kids in our district are functio
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Vast quantities of antibiotics are used by agriculture in the US, with little regulation or control. The stuff is in our water and food supply, whatever additional increases allowing people to purchase/use antibiotics without a prescr
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That doesn't jive with the submitted article in the Washington Post: "Research has consistently shown that ACT and SAT scores are strongly linked to family income, mother’s education level and race. The College Board and ACT Inc.,
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I'm a recent empty-nester, my kids are all in their late teens/early twenties, I wouldn't count myself as elderly either. I wouldn't mind at all if one or more of my kids moved back in with us long term, provided that t
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by fiftyfifty 7y ago
Is this such a bad thing? In places like Japan and Hawaii this has been a common practice for a long time. As long as the younger generation is contributing to the household in someway (working, helping out around the house or helping to
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Maybe this is just the new way of running a company? Companies that are satisfied with big profits, but don't continually re-invest those profits into R & D and growth are going to eventually get steamrolled by companies that do.
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It's crazy to spend so much time and money in school and not have a plan for what kind of career you are going to get when you get out. Parents and educators are failing these young people in not guiding them into realistic jobs and c
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Actually if you download the PlugShare app it has all kinds of charging stations, not just the Tesla Superchargers and I was honestly shocked at the number of chargers there are around the US, they are literally everywhere now. Many of the
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AP definitely doesn't handle construction zones well. That's one of the main differences with human drivers is we look at more than just the road, we can see a construction zone a half mile ahead and read the signs that warn us w
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We just need to reduce or eliminate government backed student loans and the problem will take care of itself. This "crisis" is almost a replay of the housing crisis we just had, government backed loans encourage lenders to lend o
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I have 3 kids in their late teens or early twenties and we have known a lot of other parents with kids in the same age group. I have seen the exact opposite when it comes to outcome, I have seen otherwise good, intelligent people produce d
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Intelligence has been strongly linked with physical fitness, specifically cardiovascular fitness. Is it any surprise as humans have become less active that our intelligence has suffered as well? https://www.psychologytoday.com&#
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The energy in the batteries weighs almost nothing, the batteries are just the storage mechanism, like the gas tank. To make a fair comparison between these cars, you almost need to compare not just the weight of the fuel but the entire syst
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There's a reason Tesla built the Gigafactory and has a second one coming on line in China. None of the other major western car manufacturers have invested in the infrastructure to be able to produce battery packs in volume. There&#x2
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At the very least the host should be chosen based on it's current ability to host the games, not rely on tens of billions of dollars worth of construction projects to get there. LA is probably one of the few places with most of the ve
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The cool thing with USB-C on the Pros is you can charge from any of the USB-C plugs, on both sides! On my old Mac the magsafe plug always seemed to be on the wrong side no matter where I seemed to be (Murphy's law). I wore out multip
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Why do we continue to allow our institutions of higher learning (namely high schools and colleges) to promote this sport? The very organizations charged with making our children smarter sponsor a sport proven to cause brain damage. At som
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This is why economics should be mandatory in most high school and college curriculum: The laws of supply and demand apply to the job market as well. It blows my mind that schools require things like 3 years of foreign language but fail to
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We are headed to the world (universe) depicted in Firefly!
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In addition access to exclusive and expensive sports, if you have the money, some easy tickets into the Ivy League include: fencing, sailing, rowing (crew), lacrosse, golf, tennis and equestrian.
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Amazon is already heading in this direction with Prime Video. In fact they already have different streams you can pay to subscribe to like Starz and HBO and some pretty niche ones like Curiosity Stream that I think is only $1.99/month
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That's exactly what bucket sort is. Don't they teach that in Comp Sci anymore?
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People here seem to think Christensen is saying higher ed is dying, but I don't think that is the point he is making. Flagship state schools and the Stanfords, MITs and Princetons of the world will be just fine, but there are many sma