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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Cyborg system stifles your need to drink water
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The Japanese design studio Takram was asked to design a water bottle for people to use after a hypothetical future environmental disaster. Takram, imagining what a world would be like with rising sea levels and radioactive disasters, thought that we probably wouldn?t be carrying around water bottles. Instead, they designed an entirely new organ system, to be implanted in the body, that would mean we used less water in the first place.
Its solution, called the Hydrolemic System, involves both harvesting more moisture from the air than our current unmodified bodies are capable of, and also doing more to retain the water we have. The company imagines that system would require us to drink 0.1 cups of water a day.
Inserts that go in our noses convert moisture in the air we breathe into water, and other inserts at the ends of our renal and digestive systems keep water from leaving by those routes. A collar on our neck helps prevent perspiration by turning our body heat into electricity, so it doesn?t make us perspire, losing precious liquid.
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Let's?hope for a world in which our designers are just designing water bottles with more convenient handles, rather than ones you have to go to the hospital to have installed.
Morgan Clendaniel?is ?editor of Co.Exist.
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Monday, June 25, 2012
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
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New York to release teacher evaluations, without the names or the shame
New York teachers rally around the public release of teacher evaluations, but without a ranking that they (and Bill Gates) say won't improve education for kids.
New York Assemblyman Peter Lopez (R) speaks about public disclosure of teacher evaluations, during an Assembly debate on June 21 at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y.
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New York legislators settled on a solution that could serve as a model for the rest of the country, after complicated negotiations led to passage of a last-minute compromise bill on Thursday that allows evaluations to be made public ? but only without teachers? names, unless a parent requests a report for his or her own child?s teacher.
Tying teacher performance to student test scores has been a central tenant of the Obama administration?s school reforms, but the release of teachers' individual results in Los Angeles and New York ? the first two school districts to make that information public on a large scale ? ?created a real firestorm,? according to Sean Corcoran, an education policy expert and professor at New York University.
That?s because there?s no universally accepted way to evaluate teachers. Critics say evaluation data are often taken out of context, shaming individual teachers without improving classes.
Last time, evaluations that in some cases had more than a 60 percent margin of error led to the New York Post running a story about ?the worst teacher in the city,? based on data that Mr. Corcoran says ?was intended to be used by professional educators to evaluate other professional educators. I don?t think it was set up to be a restaurant grading system,? he says.
That?s why New York legislators decided to try to prevent a repeat of last February?s debacle.
This time, say Corcoran, the plan is ?a decent compromise? that gives parents information about schools but doesn?t put specific individuals? results into the public eye, without additional context.
As other school systems roll out their new teacher evaluation systems ? which vary from state to state, but are being installed all over the country ? New York?s way of releasing teachers' performance statistics could be a model that satisfies most educators and school reformers, he says.
Of course, not everyone will be happy. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an advocate of? full-disclosure, says that making teachers? performance reviews public is the best way to improve accountability. He released a statement saying, ?I am disappointed that this bill falls short of that goal.?
But the decision to grant teachers anonymity in the public release of their evaluations won over a key former foe: the city?s main teachers? union. The United Federation of Teachers, which opposed ?Mayor Bloomberg?s insistence on releasing the misleading and inaccurate Teacher Data Reports" earlier this year, released a statement on Thursday praising the legislature?s ?major steps on behalf of our schools and our children."
The move is also in line with what Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates called for in an opinion essay in the New York Times last February, when New York first released the controversial results. "I am a strong proponent of measuring teachers? effectiveness," he said. "But publicly ranking teachers by name will not help them get better at their jobs or improve student learning. On the contrary, it will make it a lot harder to implement teacher evaluation systems that work."
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Scam on Facebook steals debit card numbers
(WMC-TV) - My good friends at the Better Business Bureau and FraudAvengers are begging you. They're pleading with you.
Don't fall for a debit card discount offer on Facebook.
Both watchdog groups?have warned us about?an unsolicited offer on?Facebook pages. The offer:? 20 percent cash back if people link their debit cards to their Facebook pages.
I know, I know. Sounds insane, right?
The problem is there are perfectly sane people out there typing their debit card numbers on their Facebook profiles faster than you can say "identity theft," all for a fake 20 percent cut.
If you follow through, the BBB said you will launch a malware virus on your computer.
"The malware scam is particularly malicious because the fraudulent offers appear to come from trusted friends," said the BBB in its contribution to FraudAvengers.
BBB's and FraudAvengers' tips for avoiding Facebook scams:
- Never install a game or an application that you?re not entirely sure is legitimate.
- Be wary of posts from friends that use overtly promotional language.
- Never click on Facebook posts or install applications that claim they will tell you which of your friends viewed your profile. It?s impossible to find out who is viewing your profile.
- If you mistakenly install an application on Facebook, click the ?Home? icon in the top right-hand corner of the site, and go to ?Account Settings.? On the right-hand column of the page click on the icon that says ?Apps,? and uninstall the suspect application.
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