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Truth: Our Education System is Broken
When Students cheat on exams it’s because our School System values grades more than Students value learning. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 14, 2013 Share/Bookmark
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Tagged Education, grades, Neil deGrasse Tyson, school, schools, science, testing, Twitter
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Spring
The Vernal Equinox (start of spring) was at 07:02 EDT this morning; it sure didn’t look or feel like spring. Share/Bookmark
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Tagged 2013, bridge, Photo, Snow, Spring, Vernal Equinox, Woods
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We Stopped Dreaming
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Good Morning
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Posted in Photos
Tagged 2013, Blizzard, Hill, Johnston, Nature, Photo, Rhode Island, Road, Snow, Sunrise, Winter, Woods, Yellow House
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Ingress
For the love of FSM give me an invite! Share/Bookmark
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Tagged Android, Google+, Ingress, Ingress Invite, NianticLabs
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Newport, Rhode Island: From then to now
My grandfather was an instrumental figure in the redevelopment of Newport after the Navy pulled out and nearly crippled the city. He authored this book (though hasn’t sent it to an actual publisher yet). Great facts and photographs! Download a … Continue reading
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Tagged City, Government, NAVY, Newport, Redevelopment, Rhode Island, Tourism, Urban, William H. Leys, William Leys
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November Morning…
Good morning… Share/Bookmark
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Tagged Autumn, Good Morning, Morning, November, Photo, Sunrise, Vintage
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Why Explore?
Unlike other animals, humans are quite comfortable sleeping on our backs. This simple fact affords us a view of the boundless night sky as we fall asleep, allowing us to dream about our place in the cosmos and to wounder … Continue reading
Posted in Space
Tagged NASA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, science, Space, Space chronicles: facing the ultimate frontier
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WMI – Weapon of Mass Instruction [cartoon]
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Posted in Health, News
Tagged Education, Malala Yousufzai, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism, terrorists, Weapon of Mass Instruction
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AT&T’s Massive Failure
Yesterday AT&T found it’s DNS infrastructure the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) which crippled it’s service. The multi-hour attack began Wednesday morning West Coast time and at the time of this writing, eight hours later, does … Continue reading
