Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
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.
Saw that on the news this morning.
Haven't read further, but from the broadcast, what struck me about how they came up with their results was that they didn't focus on trying to evaluate some nebulous "self-esteem" but showed that the kids in the US (as opposed to Korea) were actually rating themselves as "excellent" at things like math where they clearly weren't.
It says you can dress as a burrito OR a taco, or a salad, or a burrito bowl.
And I would have typed all that, too, only I was too busy drinking my precious bean juice.
I am so not letting pepper near my nostrils. Having tried to cauterise one with vinegar already, I'm all nasal condimented up, thanks.
ita the only thing that has worked reliably for you is drinking the night before, and whatever it is they give you in ER? Does morphine not work?
kids in the US (as opposed to Korea) were actually rating themselves as "excellent" at things like math where they clearly weren't.
Or we could just wait for them to get to college to find out they're not....
I am reminded of the Toothpaste for Dinner guy doing experiments with a Neti Pot. Pretty funny when he moves past water...
struck me about how they came up with their results was that they didn't focus on trying to evaluate some nebulous "self-esteem" but showed that the kids in the US (as opposed to Korea) were actually rating themselves as "excellent" at things like math where they clearly weren't.
It seems like that could measure expectation more than "self-esteem". If a kid does great on every math test, then there isn't any reason he or she shouldn't rate themselves excellent. A problem I'm seeing with our kid's school is that getting poorer preforming students to score well enough on tests is much more important that challenging better performing students. I can't really blame the school that much, that's how the game is rigged.
yoiks. I'm still afraid of the neti pot, but now that I have a nebulizer, I don't ever need to think about having one.
We've been doing fun nebulizer experiments (on me, not Noah). .10ml of Vicks Vapor with 5 ML of saline is just about enough to quicko open the sinuses.
ALSO, did I say thank you to everyone who funded K's proposal was funded! So EXCITING. So thank you!
The video is here: [link]
Why yes, I should be working, but I'm sort of obsessed with the NY Times today. I'm floored that the Manhattan Project actually had sites in Manhattan.
In “The Manhattan Project” (Black Dog & Leventhal), published last month, Dr. Norris writes about the Manhattan Project’s Manhattan locations. He says the borough had at least 10 sites, all but one still standing. They include warehouses that held uranium, laboratories that split the atom, and the project’s first headquarters — a skyscraper hidden in plain sight right across from City Hall....
Manhattan was central, according to Dr. Norris, because it had everything: lots of military units, piers for the import of precious ores, top physicists who had fled Europe and ranks of workers eager to aid the war effort. It even had spies who managed to steal some of the project’s top secrets....
“That’s amazing,” Alexandra Ghitelman said after learning that the buildings she had just passed on inline skates once held tons of uranium destined for atomic weapons. “That’s unbelievable.”