Why Johnny Isn't Reading Much Better
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The Nation's Report Card shows U.S. students are improving slightly in math, but less so in reading
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'You disgust me!!!!!!' FoTW In case you missed it, Nobel prize winner James Watson recently got himself into a bit of trouble after claiming that black people are less intelligent than white people.â¦
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You may be doing relatively well. But you can do better.
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What's driving GOOG higher. Could it be nothing?.
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"Father Knows Less" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 272 pages, $24.95), by Wendell Jamieson: Kids ask questions, and little ones ask them endlessly. Answering them will strain a parent's knowledge as well as his or her patience.
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Dyslexia slows a driver's reaction time as much as moderate drinking, a report claims.
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Tycho:  Our newest comic is available here, regarding the blogger that Nintendo fired recently.  As usual, Gabriel and I disagree absolutely on virtually every point of this discussion, my own perspective favoring greater liberty while he presents a naked defense of fascism.  The two universal axioms we were both able to agree upon were that:
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By Elaine Guregian, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 24--Better rev up.
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LOWELL -- St. John's Prep had trouble staying out of the penalty box in its first-round Super 8 game yesterday at Tsongas Arena against Reading.
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Michael Erardâs book is about verbal pauses, fillers and errors and what they might mean.
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Why airports should have a reading section, and how the world's tallest man saved my week
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It takes a long time to get into a good book, particularly if it's electronic.
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When Mark Winegardner was 12, he read Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" &#151; a novel that was supposedly off limits to him. The local library felt books with a lot of sex and violence might leave too much of an impression on a young reader. In his case, it did.
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One in 10 parents struggle to understand the tales they read to their children.
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John Force Racing had a better weekend than John Force did. And John Force the father had a better weekend than John Force the racer.
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Okay I've been writing about OPML reading lists here for years. I'm now on my second implementation, so maybe this time I'll get it right.  But there's something cool that happens when (hypothetically) the entire installed base of podcatchers supports OPML reading lists. All of a sudden the subscription problem goes poof! Ask anyone who's worked on a RSS reader, for that matter, ask anyone who's used one, what a PITA it is to subscribe to a feed. All those little buttons, or copying and pasting, and looking at urls, and trying to figure out whether you want this format or that format. It's a miracle anyone actually subscribes to feeds it's so damned complicated. Before you blame anyone, it's not actually anyone's fault. It's a result of the market not being a monopoly. The only way to solve the problem is if everyone uses the same web app to manage subscriptions. And we know that's not going to happen any time soon. Or, if every reader supports OPML reading lists. Now that might actually happen, even though it's not very likely. But podcasting, that's a whole other story. According to many people there's only one podcatcher, iTunes. So that's simplified the problem. For example, look at this page of NY Times podcasts, and how they handle it.   See the Subscribe button? Nice. Except for one thing. It really should say "Subscribe in iTunes" because that's what it does. And it works, because in many people's minds, iTunes is the only way to subscribe to a podcast. And it could stay that simple if Apple would do one thing, offer the option of publishing the OPML automatically to a publicly accessible web address, so the user could continue to use Apple's server to handle subscriptions, even if they're using a different podcatcher (for example one that runs on a Nokia N800). It would be the mark of a truly great company if they did that. Maybe they are that great. Otheriwse at some point we're going to ask the NY TImes to change their page. And they may not be too happy about that. Wouldn't blame them if they were. Moral of the story: If we can centralize the subscription process, and move it out of one reader or another, and get the readers to all support subscription to reading lists, the awful ugly issue will go away for users. It's one of the oldest tradeoffs in the tech business, to make it simple for users, the vendors have to give up some power.
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(HealthDay News) -- Reading disabilities can be identified even in very young children, and should be immediately evaluated by a professional.