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We really don’t have any idea what we want…
January 31, 2013 Comments Off on We really don’t have any idea what we want…

The Onion

“Seems like just yesterday she was this creative 7-year-old kid, pretending her Barbie was the first woman president,” Hayes added. “My, they grow into little more than consumer goods so quickly.”

Marvelling at the rite of passage that all females make from girlhood into entirely disempowered objecthood, Hayes expressed confidence that the 17-year-old would one day become a highly prized physical possession for “one lucky guy.”
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Lets hear it for sanity – from the psychological community…
December 26, 2012 1 Comment on Lets hear it for sanity – from the psychological community…

New York Times

I write this despite the so-called Goldwater Rule, an ethical standard the American Psychiatric Association adopted in the 1970s that directs psychiatrists not to comment on someone’s mental state if they have not examined him and gotten permission to discuss his case. It has had a chilling effect.
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May God have mercy on us…
December 16, 2012 Comments Off on May God have mercy on us…

It’s not like any of the bitterly squabbling ideologues will really care that much (or even notice) as they continue to push for or against gun control in the wake of this latest school shooting but this really deserves to be posted…
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Once and for all?
November 17, 2012 Comments Off on Once and for all?

SermonCentral

Confession to trusted friends and to God is healthy. It’s normal and natural to talk about your struggles with people who care about you. The indispensable truth to grasp, however, is that confession does not initiate cleansing in your life. We’ve already been cleansed “once for all” through the onetime blood sacrifice that needs no repeating.
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Let’s hear it for compassion – finally…
March 30, 2012 Comments Off on Let’s hear it for compassion – finally…

Psychology Today: Scared Crooked

There is only one problem: Scared Straight programs don’t work. Actually, it’s worse than that: They do more harm than good. Several well-designed studies have been conducted, in which at-risk youth were randomly assigned to take part in Scared Straight programs or to a control group that did not, and then all the kids were followed to see whether they got into trouble.
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Steal this book – he’s begging you…
March 16, 2012 2 Comments on Steal this book – he’s begging you…

Seth Godin: Stop Stealing Dreams

This is, without a doubt, the best grasp of what needs to be fixed about the mess that passes as our education system I have ever seen. I started reading it just to see what he had to say and ended up not being able to stop reading until I had read the entire book in one sitting.
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HPV vaccination – apparently not the aphrodisiac of legend…
December 13, 2011 Comments Off on HPV vaccination – apparently not the aphrodisiac of legend…

WebMD

Dec. 13, 2011 — Girls and young women who are vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) appear to be no more likely than those who are not vaccinated to engage in sexually risky behaviours, a CDC survey finds.
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How to lose a country and a world…
December 5, 2011 Comments Off on How to lose a country and a world…

The best schools

The students could not go from their vague discomfort to a rational ethical conclusion because they have never learned traditional philosophy of ethics. Therefore, their objections have no force and, for all that they sense injustice, they will likely do very little good in the world.
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Sympathy for skin?
November 13, 2011 Comments Off on Sympathy for skin?

Scientific American

For example, subjects were asked if they’d administer harmless but painful electric shocks to another person. They chose to shock those fully clothed significantly more often than those exposed above the waist. So if you’re looking for sympathy, maybe show a little skin.
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How to really leave no child behind…
August 26, 2011 1 Comment on How to really leave no child behind…

Smithsonian Magazine.

“Whatever it takes” is an attitude that drives not just Kirkkojarvi’s 30 teachers, but most of Finland’s 62,000 educators in 3,500 schools from Lapland to Turku-professionals selected from the top 10 percent of the nation’s graduates to earn a required master’s degree in education. Many schools are small enough so that teachers know every student.
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