October 5, 2011 – 1:05 PM
Ah, imagine a simpler time when people actually had time to invent solutions for problems that don’t exist, instead of sitting around all day fretting about problems that appear insolvable.
Educators came up with the idea during a brainstorming session, as a way to foster a “calmer and inclusive atmosphere in the classroom,” the Daily Mail reports. Students, ages 7 to 11, are instructed to give a thumbs up and cup it with their other hand rather than wave a hand in the air.
[From Can Banning Hand-Raising Promote a Calmer Classroom? - TIME NewsFeed]
September 13, 2011 – 4:55 PM
On the same day a Wall Street Journal headline proclaims, “Are Alpha Males Healthy?” comes a news report on the involved parenting and testosterone.
Testosterone, that most male of hormones, takes a dive after a man becomes a parent. And the more he gets involved in caring for his children — changing diapers, jiggling the boy or girl on his knee, reading “Goodnight Moon” for the umpteenth time — the lower his testosterone drops.
[From In Study, Fatherhood Leads to Drop in Testosterone - NYTimes.com]
It appears that all of our fears, or at least taunts by manly men, have been confirmed: if you spend too much time in the nursery, you might as well put on a dress and hand over your trousers to the missus.
Another thing for my semi-privacy policy to-do list.
I’m not naive enough to think privacy is at all possible these days, and the government definitely can identify almost all of us using facial recognition. I’d just as soon though, that not every Tom, Dick, and Larry is able to identify me and my family.
If you haven’t seen it yet, Facebook’s new facial-recognition software is a crafty feature. Pass a cursor over a photo that you just uploaded to Facebook and, voila, the person’s name pops up like magic.
[From Facebook facial-recognition opt out: Here's how to opt out of Facebook's facial-recognition feature - latimes.com]
Nintendo already announced it will roll out the next Wii gaming console at the E3 2011 conference in L.A. this week, and now a reliable source confirms much-rumored details of the new Wii’s unique controller, depicted in the graphic mockup above. [From Nintendo Wii 2 Touchscreen Controller Confirmed [REPORT]]
I was just about to post about a “new Wii to be announced at E3 in LA this week” when this popped up. I can’t say I’m really jazzed about this new controller. We like the Wii because it’s communal and bringing it back down to the controller, like PSP and XBOX means less time watching the same screen. We’ll have to wait and see how it works.
First, if I were to go on to say that San Francisco is about to outlaw female circumcision, what would your opinion be?
Actually, the City by the Bay, as reported by SFGate.com, has received enough signatures on a petition to add a no male circumcision initiative to the November ballot. The proposal would ban male circumcision, with no religious exemptions. Violators would be guilty of a misdemeanor offense and subject to a $1000 fine. Female circumcision is already illegal everywhere in the United States.
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