BP Solar provides this calculator for determining how much you'd pay/save if you were install a solar power system to generate electricity for your home. It supposedly works by zip code, figuring your area's capacity for sunlight into the mix.
Acres of newspapers — 273 front pages from 37 countries presented alphabetically, courtesy of Newseum. Refreshed daily.
Via Cryptome, a civil action: The Estate of John O'Neill v. The Republic of Iraq. John P. O'Neill, Sr. was a former top FBI counter-terrorism official who had become director of security for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey shortly before September 11, 2001. He died in the World Trade Center. We've written about him before.
His willingness to orphan his own sacred progeny reveals an irrational derangement that destroys whatever message his actions were supposed to impart to those of us who disagree with him.
But his message is nevertheless clear: he wants all women not to have dominion over their own bodies, and he wants his own children not to have a father.
The problem with education, says Neil Bush, is that we create prison-like environments that suppress many students' natural gifts and bore them with useless facts.
The president's brother is speaking on a panel at Whitney High, a Southern California academic powerhouse, where his company's social studies software is being tested by eighth-graders. But Bush quickly finds himself alone, pitted against several bright-as-lights Whitney students who like calculus. They think the problem isn't that school is boring, but that educators, parents and kids set their expectations too low.
"I hear students say, 'Oh, math is boring, or that subject is boring, so I don't want to do it.' I say, that's an excuse, a crutch. A student should want to learn everything. That's what we're here for," notes one.
Fortunately, today's crutch-free eighth-graders — the ones who appreciate the finer things in life, like calculus, or anything factual — will be writing the educational software of the future.
In the meanwhile, California kids will be hobbled by the software equivalent of Billy Beer.
