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Cultural, Economic Backgrounds Have Become Less Important In Education Outcomes

Cultural, Economic Backgrounds Have Become Less Important In Education Outcomes

Jan 25 2011 | comment(s)

In  , it was noted that happiness spikes when wealth increases but then gradually levels off as a factor.   Money does not buy happiness, it was always said, and it may be that money does not buy a better education either.

It's what happens when money is expected to increase basic education; achieving that begins to conflict with notions of diversity, equality and inclusion.

Inclusion has become a political buzzword, notes Docent Girma Berhanu from the University of Gothenburg in International Journal of Special Education, but educational reform is leading to less of it.  
Historical Smoking Blamed For Shorter Life Expectancy Of Older US Residents

Historical Smoking Blamed For Shorter Life Expectancy Of Older US Residents

Jan 25 2011 | comment(s)

The U.S. spends more per capita on health care for its citizens than any other nation and, its proponents note, the quality is higher, but where area where spending has not helped is the life expectancy of older people - at least when it comes to increases in life expectancy.
Dawn Of The Dinosaurs And The Carmian-Norian Transition

Dawn Of The Dinosaurs And The Carmian-Norian Transition

Jan 24 2011 | comment(s)

Did dinosaurs appear and replace other animals?  At least in one South American valley, there's no indication that the dinosaurs appeared and wiped out other animals, which has been the prevailing hypothesis for the origin of dinosaurs based on fossils from North America and elsewhere in the world.

Dating of new dinosaur fossils and volcanic ash around them by researchers from has led them to cast doubt on the idea that dinosaurs appeared and opportunistically replaced other animals. They seem to have existed side by side and gone through similar periods of extinction.
The Chaos Of Brain Signaling

The Chaos Of Brain Signaling

Jan 24 2011 | comment(s)

The dynamics behind signal transmission in the brain are extremely chaotic. 

The brain codes information in the form of electrical pulses, known as spikes. Each of the brain's approximately 100 billion interconnected neurons acts as both a receiver and transmitter: these bundle all incoming electrical pulses and, under certain circumstances, forward a pulse of their own to their neighbours. In this way, each piece of information processed by the brain generates its own activity pattern. This indicates which neuron sent an impulse to its neighbors: in other words, which neuron was active, and when. Therefore, the activity pattern is a kind of communication protocol that records the exchange of information between neurons.
A 'Smoking Gun' For The Late Permian Extinction

A 'Smoking Gun' For The Late Permian Extinction

Jan 24 2011 | comment(s)

About 250 million years about 70 percent of life on land was wiped out.   A new study says it has evidence to support massive volcanic eruptions that had broad impact on the global oceans and contributed to the extinction.

Researchers at the University of Calgary believe they have discovered evidence for the hypothesis that volcanic eruptions burnt significant volumes of coal, producing ash clouds that had broad impact and was a direct factor in the late Permian extinction.
Partition Numbers Behave Like Fractals, Says Mathematician

Partition Numbers Behave Like Fractals, Says Mathematician

Jan 21 2011 | comment(s)

For hundreds of years, mathematicians even as great as Leonhard Euler(1) have tried to make sense of partition numbers, the basis for adding and counting.  Progress has been made but there has never been a full theory to explain partitions.   Answers have always led to more questions.

Basically, partitions are not considered by some to be part of number theory at all but to keep it simple for now, in number theory, a partition of a positive integer (n) is a way of writing n as a sum of positive integers.    

Here is an example from the Classic Encyclopedia: