I have a nexis sub and can email you the article if you need it Emily.
We're still working on a plan, but so far it involves being sent to prison and becoming somebody's bitch.
Fred ,'Just Rewards (2)'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ChiKat - Jul 21, 2005 8:31:12 am PDT #1821 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Volans - Jul 21, 2005 8:31:29 am PDT #1822 of 10002
move out and draw fire
The Meese Report on Pornography was a famous pre-Internet skewage of stats as well. His hypothesis and coincidentally, what he "proved" with the report was that looking at porn makes people commit rape. How he got there? Went to prisons and asked convicted rapists if they've ever seen Playboy or other porn.
I'll dig for more if I get a chance...
Gudanov - Jul 21, 2005 8:32:45 am PDT #1823 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
If you've heard talk that Joe Wilson claimed that the Vice President sent him to Niger here's the real story:
The RNC cited Wilson's Times op-ed as evidence that he claimed Cheney sent him to Niger. But the op-ed actually noted that it was "agency officials" from the CIA who "asked if I would travel to Niger" to answer questions Cheney's office had about a particular intelligence report:
In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report. While I never saw the report, I was told that it referred to a memorandum of agreement that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake -- a form of lightly processed ore -- by Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's. The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office.
The RNC then distorted Wilson's appearance on CNN's Late Edition by excluding a crucial portion of his remarks in which he noted that "it's absolutely true" that Cheney was unaware that Wilson was traveling to Niger and reiterated that the "CIA, at the operational level, made a determination" to send Wilson to answer a "serious question" posed by Cheney's office.
Additionally, Rove's conversation with Cooper took place on July 11, 2003 -- more than three weeks before Wilson's CNN appearance -- so it is chronologically impossible for Rove to have been refuting a statement that Wilson hadn't made yet, as Salon.com has pointed out.
From the RNC talking points:
Joe Wilson: "What They Did, What The Office Of The Vice President Did, And, In Fact, I Believe Now From Mr. Libby's Statement, It Was Probably The Vice President Himself ..." (CNN's "Late Edition," 8/3/03)
From the August 3, 2003, edition of CNN's Late Edition:
WILSON: Well, look, it's absolutely true that neither the vice president nor Dr. [then-national security adviser Condoleezza] Rice nor even [then-CIA Director] George Tenet knew that I was traveling to Niger.
What they did, what the office of the vice president did, and, in fact, I believe now from Mr. Libby's statement, it was probably the vice president himself --
BLITZER: [I. Lewis] "Scooter" Libby is the chief of staff for the vice president.
WILSON: Scooter Libby. They asked essentially that we follow up on this report -- that the agency follow up on the report. So it was a question that went to the CIA briefer from the Office of the Vice President. The CIA, at the operational level, made a determination that the best way to answer this serious question was to send somebody out there who knew something about both the uranium business and those Niger officials that were in office at the time these reported documents were executed.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 21, 2005 8:33:48 am PDT #1824 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Good lord. I would fail that question because, most of the time, I'd rather wait an extra minute than get into a confrontation with a stranger.
I've gotten into bitter public arguments with people because they stopped to chat excessively with a clerk while a long line of people was waiting behind them. This didn't make the lines move any faster, but at least the guilty party's blood pressure got raised as much as mine did.
Emily - Jul 21, 2005 8:33:53 am PDT #1825 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Nope, don't need the whole article. Thank you, though! I'm going to bookmark some links so that if I actually decide to teach this at some point I can find things.
Thank you everyone for being so helpful! I think this would be an interesting lesson, but I thought that last time and crashed and burned. So I'm trepidatious.
Emily - Jul 21, 2005 8:37:52 am PDT #1826 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Aw, hell. I forgot I was going to need to justify my learning plan by "invoking" the book we read. Also, I should be thinking about the presentation we're giving on Monday and figuring out whether my group should be designing its final unit plan on differential or integral calculus. Did I mention I have about two hours before I leave for class?
tommyrot - Jul 21, 2005 8:47:06 am PDT #1827 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, and the guy who invented the I.Q. test (I think his name was Joe I.Q.) was once asked what intelligence was. He replied, "Intellegence is what my test measures." He was being self-consciously circular to acknowledge the difficulties in defining and measuring intelligence.
Volans - Jul 21, 2005 8:50:19 am PDT #1828 of 10002
move out and draw fire
By the by, an "inquiry-based" lesson plan is one where the students perform an inquiry as their lesson. They come up with tests or experiments (or you come up with the experiments and have them do them) to illustrate the lesson.
So in this case it would be something like conducting a survey of the other students, or of teachers, or whomever, and predicting whether the sample size or composition will give accurate results.
Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 8:58:53 am PDT #1829 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fuck me. I hate feeling crappy, but not actually bad enough to justify leaving work. Stupid low-grade migraine. If I could just close my eyes for a while, everything would be OK.
Instead, I file.
Calli - Jul 21, 2005 9:04:53 am PDT #1830 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Emily, I don't know if it would be at all useful to you, but there are some high school level science lesson plans here. It's a pilot program that the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, the NIEHS Community Outreach and Education Program, and a few universities are doing. Maybe they would have some useful ideas or suchlike.