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• Line of the day

  
  troisnyx* officiel — Authority: 124
  Overheard in Public Law class : "I am the Law = Ayam telur". Just in case you didnt get what ayam telur means, it simply means "chickens which are bred for their eggs". The reverse, telur ayam , means "chicken eggs".
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• ESL

  
  GupShup Forums — Authority: 175
  hey anyone knows about ESL(English as a second language)???i need info about it...itz scope??course and tuitions..plz help me out if u people know :)
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• I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff . . .: English Architects Build Wolf-Proof, Fire-Proof Straw House

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 645
  You cannot trust anything today. After generations were taught how the little pig who built his house out of straw was negligent, a straw house has not only been built in England but it has even passed the industry standard fire safety test. Called the Balehaus@Bath, it is built of pre-fabricated straw-bale and hemp ...
  18 hours ago

• 10 things graduate students want

  
  home cooked theory — Authority:
  Over the past few months panelists for the SOI conference have been meeting and sharing plans for what they will present in their allotted time at the beginning of each session. The conference format is not the traditional paper-giving mode, but rather an open discussion with the audience following a series of ...
  22 hours ago

• Meditation XVIII, Sextus Empiricus (AD c.200) – Outlines of Pyrrhonism

  
  Eternity in an Hour — Authority: 131
  Sextus Empiricus~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot even begin to comprehend. The meeting may be brief and uneventful with nothing fruitful happening as a result of it. But the die is cast and the wheels of time have turned. The present as we know it is [...]
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• The Canadian Version Of Climate Change Fraud

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 130
  A past event from our resident kook, David Suzuki. Vancouver’s International Day of Climate Action: The Bridge to a Cool Planet Parade Or, The Bridge to Nowhere? David Suzuki’s encouraging Canadians to join people from around the world calling for action on global warming on Saturday October 24th. ...
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• The Liar, The Witch, and the KKK’s Wardrode

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 123
  Sarah Palin’s presidential-ambition-blessing pastor was a real, literal witch-hunter and witch-persecutor. No joke. Now comes another no-joke witch story, one I saw earlier today in the Chronicle of Higher Education weekly round-up by Don Troop, under the irresistible and accurately newsworthy headline, “The Liar, ...
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• Speed Blogging

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 591
  Dam Down: Rogue River flows again Nice iceberg photos like this --> "A Regional Finance Strategy to Restore the Health of the Great Lakes" [ PDF ] can perhaps give some good ideas to people trying to save the Delta. Biofuels and water (yes, still a big mistake) Five economists talk sense on financial ...
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• How to “measure” teaching skill?

  
  EphBlog — Authority: 148
  One of the spin-offs from the some of the recent discussions about Bernard Moore was a “debate” about how good or bad he was as a teacher. One student said that he was terrific, several others were quite critical. Without trying to rehash Mr. Moore’s specific talents, I thought the debate raised an interesting ...
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• College Scholarships023

  
  College Education — Authority: 138
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• Female athletes outperform their male counterparts in college

  
  Pretty Tough | Fun Fierce Feminine — Authority: 475
  College athletes are still setting records and dispelling myths — in the classroom. The NCAA’s latest graduation numbers show nearly four out of five student-athletes earn their diplomas on time, an all-time high, and federal statistics show athletes are still more likely to graduate on time than other ...
  2 days ago

• Perry Rejects Commutation - UPDATED

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 512
  Governor Rick Perryhas rejected a recommendation to commute the death sentence of Robert Thompson.  Thompson is scheduledto be executed shortly after 6:00 pm, tonight.  The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted yesterday, 5-2, to recommend a commutation to the governor. Governor Perrys statement is here. ...
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• Lehigh Students Arrested for Failing to Leave Tip

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 645
  Lehigh students Leslie Pope and John Wagner believe that they now know why tipping is mandatory at the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem. After they received what they called horrendous service, they paid the bill with no tip. They ended up in jail for the $16.35 tip. The students were with six friends at the pub, which ...
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• Recap from Student Speak Out

  
  Writing on the Mall — Authority: 131
  A lot of topics got covered at Student Speak Out this year…probably mostly due to the fact that 90 more students were here this year.  Here’s the gist of some of the things that got covered.  Look for more recaps throughout the rest of the week. Food Services Questions about food services at Marietta College ...
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• Saving the Language of the People

  
  Texas Tech Today — Authority: 149
  Linguist Jeff Williams sits among his collection of Native American artifacts. A Texas Tech University professor of anthropology has begun the difficult task of collecting the remnants of the near-extinct Comanche language, then creating a way it can be taught in a university setting. Jeff Williams, chairman of ...
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• Professors Ethics

  
  voluntaryXchange — Authority: 136
  I have a student that blew off buying a required text with a set of attached homeworks, and is having second thoughts now that they are piling up zeroes. If they ask how many more assignments will be drawn from that set, am I obligated to tell them? (The other students have this information and could share it, but ...
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• How to Save the MBA: Teach Students to Think Like Designers

  
  Back to B-School — Authority: 126
  According to Roger Martin, head of Canadas Rotman School of Management, what future business leaders really need is an education in multiple fields, including design.
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• Fowler, Sendek, Amato and the GSR

  
  StateFans Nation — Authority: 473
  NC State is currently tied for the worst record in the Atlantic Coast Conference football season as the program heads towards its longest consecutive streak of non-winning seasons since the 1950s. The Wolfpack has been picked to finish 12th out of 12 teams from almost every imaginable source for the upcoming ...
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• Sophie Burys talk

  
  Information Literacy Weblog — Authority: 423
  On October 26-27 we were happy to have a visit from Sophie Bury , from York University in Canada. Whilst she was here she gave a talk based on her research, for our Centre for Information Literacy Research: An Investigation of the Information Literacy Instruction Practices, Attitudes, and Knowledge of University ...
  3 days ago

• College Scholarships006

  
  College Education — Authority: 138
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