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May 22, 2013

Law Enforcement Agencies Freak Out Over 3-D Printed Guns

Presence, Not Praise: How To Cultivate a Healthy Relationship with Achievement

Nowadays, we lavish praise on our children. Praise, self-confidence and academic performance, it is commonly believed, rise and fall together. But current research suggests otherwise — over the past decade, a number of studies on self-esteem have come to the conclusion that praising a child as ‘clever’ may not help her at school. In fact, it might cause her to under-perform. Often a child will react to praise by quitting — why make a new drawing if you have already made ‘the best’? Or a child may simply repeat the same work — why draw something new, or in a new way, if the old way always gets applause?

George W. Bush Might Approve Of Star Trek Into Darkness

That the film ends up siding with Bush-like leadership comes as a bit of surprise, after the thoughtful rhetoric of the first half. But that muddled political message reflects our schizophrenic political culture. America may have sent Bush packing with the lowest approval rating in modern history, but Obama's Spock-like approach to politics has not made governing a divided nation easy. When liberals urge Obama to "go Bulworth," as they did last week, aren't they asking him to put aside reason and logic, and unleash his inner cowboy? Aren't they really begging him to "shoot from the hip?"

Of course, movies are perhaps not the best place for America to work out its post-9/11 trauma. Action heroes have to be brave and mostly brainless; that's how they've been doing it in Hollywood for more than a century. When the film settles the Kirk versus Spock debate in favor of the former, it conveys that we may not be as advanced as many would like to think. If we are ever to truly learn the lessons of the Bush era, we need a movie where Spock is the hero.

Secret Millionaires Club
Warren Buffet is so rich, he made a financial cartoon to teach kids about money. Every cartoon also comes with activities that are linked to the Common Core

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