The Atlantic Monthly Fails Science 101, #FlatEarth ers Rejoice ← Wheat-Dogg's...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]The Atlantic's Lizzie Wade may be a talented writer with an Ivy league education, but her Jan. 27 essay about rapper B.o.B.'s Flat Earth nonsense is...
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Ten Years: Controversial Hong Kong Film Wins Top Asia Award
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com] A scene from Ten Years: Youth Guard members in 2025 egg a bookstore A controversial film depicting a bleak future for Hong Kong under Beijing's...
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BBC Magazine: The Sikhs Who Saved Parmesan
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com] A Sikh dairy farm worker in Novellara, Italy (Source: BBC Magazine) The next time you buy some real Parmesan cheese from Parma, Italy, thank the...
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Chinese Officially Avoid Unpleasant Memories of Cultural Revolution
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]"The Chinese People's Liberation Army is the great school of Mao Zedong Thought." It's been 50 years since the start of the Cultural Revolution, but...
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World Bank: Teachers Put Shanghai Ahead in Global Tests
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com] Shanghai schoolchildren (Photo via the BBC) Shanghai students consistently have outperformed students from other parts of the world in math, science...
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BBC: Life Forms 'Went Large' a Billion Years Ago
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com] Look! The fossils the IDiots say don't exist! (BBC) Intelligent Design proponents claim that the Cambrian Explosion 540 million years ago indicates...
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BBC: Detained and Interrogated for 10 Hours in North Korea
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in North Korean custody The US State Department this week sent a security warning to all US citizens abroad...
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From Boko Haram's Birthplace, Instagram Posts Beyond 'Death and Despair' --...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com] Photo by Fati Abubakar, Instagram In a part of Nigeria that's been racked by Boko Haram raids and army counter-attacks, an amateur photographer...
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Chuck C. Johnson, GotNewsDotCom Wrong Yet Again and Again #BlackLivesMatter
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Beware the Chuckyman! Courtesy of GotNwes.com. Thanks to Snopes.com, our fact-checking crew did not need to work overtime debunking Award Winning...
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How John Hersey's Hiroshima Revealed the Horror of the Bomb -- BBC Magazine
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com] Seventy years ago, The New Yorker devoted all of its editorial pages to just one story: the 30,000-word report, Hiroshima, by John Hersey. As the...
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Improvement and Hard Work Are More Important Than Exams
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com] This video is based on a true story, according to the BBC. A young girl, Shirley, is demoralized by her poor marks in geography class, but her...
View ArticleIf Donald Trump Wins, It'll Be a New Age of Darkness -- Jonathan Freedland,...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]It's not Americans who are worried about Donald Trump winning the presidential election. There are many in the UK who fear the worst, as well. They...
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Raped by Her Teacher 37 Years Ago, a Lawyer Tells Her Story
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com] This essay has been shared on Facebook, first within the FB of Cold Spring Harbor High School alumni, and gradually elsewhere. Susan Rule-Sandler...
View ArticleObituary: The Dutch Teacher Who Saved 600 Kids From the Nazis
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]A brave teacher has passed. Obituary: Johan van Hulst, the teacher who saved Jewish children Some of the children Johan van Hulst helped rescue were...
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Average US Teacher Spends $479/yr on Classroom Supplies
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Image source: Pixabay (Creative Commons license) Ninety-four out of a hundred public school teachers in the USA pay for classroom supplies out of...
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While the USA Sleeps, China Gradually Isolates Taiwan
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Taiwan's independence is on the lineIt's gotten lost in the fog of corruption, but the Trump administration's apathy toward foreign affairs seems to...
View ArticleAmateur Hour at the White House
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com] I listened to the Stuttering John podcast (well, the half dealing with the Trump call anyway). Here are some observations. The phone number they...
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GotNews.com May Be Gone, but GotNwes.com Is Still Here - for Now
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]The actual image Johnson used for GotNews' Facebook page A couple of days ago, Chuck Johnson closed his so-called news site and burned it to the...
View ArticleWho Is "Mr Pillsbury," Trump's Favorite China Authority?
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]re: #22 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ i just have to come to terms with the fact that millions of people can't tell how utterly moronic this sounds "From what...
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Donations for Joan Xie Qiong Urgently Needed
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Joan and her teacher last monthI've blogged, tweeted, and Facebooked it, but I'll share my appeal for donations here, too. My former student, Joan...
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Blocked Venezuela Bridge Was Never Opened in First Place
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Several days ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo retweeted a photograph that purported to show how Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro had blocked a...
View Article'I Felt More Traumatized Than Trained': Education Week
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]It just seems like it would be easier and more humane to prevent school shootings by taking away access to the weapons, rather than expect teachers...
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Sharing the Mueller Report Bit by Bit
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com] Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of investigators have produced a 448-page tome detailing in two volumes Russian efforts to subvert the...
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