AMSER Science Reader Monthly : The Scout Report [SciTEK]
1. Introducing the AMSER Science Reader Monthly http://www.amser.org/AMSER—ScienceReader.php Internet Scout is pleased to announce the monthly publication of the AMSER Science Reader Monthly. The AMSER SRM provides readers with a useful online collection of information about a particular topic related to applied math and science by combining freely available articles from popular journals with curriculum, learning objects, and web sites from the AMSER portal. The AMSER Science Reader Monthly is free to use in the classroom and educators are encouraged to contact AMSER with suggestions for upcoming issues or comments and concerns at info@amser.org. This month’s AMSER Science Monthly Reader topic is Carbon Trading. The AMSER SRM can also be found in the About section on the AMSER (http://amser.org) homepage. >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2009. http://scout.wisc.edu/
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- Unorganized Borough on Twitter
When home is tent city [homeless]
A Christian Science perspective. When home is tent city Accurate numbers are hard to come by, but one respected estimate puts the number of those made homeless in the United States by the current recession at 1.5 million. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1019/p18s01-hfcs.html
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“ With the value-added method, students are compared to themselves from year to year, so the results are not skewed by income levels, parental involvement, race or gender. [stats, teachers, analytical anthro]
Superintendent spreads the gospel of ‘value-added’ teacher evaluations - latimes.com
Stemming the tide of alcohol [alcohol, analytical anthro]
If effective steps to change New Zealand’s heavy drinking culture are not taken soon, it is likely that the widespread damage associated with excess alcohol will continue for decades to come. The Law Commission’s “first principles” review, now in process, gives us a once-in-a-generation chance to have a fresh look at the alcohol laws and do something serious about stopping the damage. The starting point, as Sir Geoffrey Palmer and his team have said, is that alcohol is not an ordinary commodity; it is a psychoactive recreational drug. Many people may use this drug safely and happily, but for tens of thousands of others it does harm to their lives, health and families. http://www.stuff.co.nz/2967839/Stemming-the-tide-of-alcohol
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Domestic-abuse victim says she was evicted for reporting crime
Domestic-abuse victim says she was evicted for reporting crime By Sara Olkon An Illinois woman’s case reflects a growing concern that the federal Violence Against Women Act appears to leave out abuse victims who rent in the private market. Kathy Cleaves-Milan called police to report that her live-in boyfriend had threatened her. Days later, she was evicted. Apartment managers had ruled her in violation of her lease because of the recent crime in her apartment.>
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Can’t drive more than 10 miles in Unorganized Borough, period. We get NO Alaskan oil and it’s $7 per gallon plus, if available.
“Electric cars might work in Los Angeles, but they don’t work in Alaska, where you can drive hundreds of miles without seeing many people, let alone many electrical sockets,” #Palin writes.
Palin on Oil Drilling: “Yes, We Can!” - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
via celticdiva
Earthquakes, tsunamis [disease, alcohol]: We know they're coming; why won't we prepare? [analytical anthropology]
The innate drama of life and death, ramped up by natural disaster. Survivors and observers — we’re always the obliging spectators, either pushing the boundaries of decency on site or sitting on the couch at home. Here’s the real trouble with this culture: We haven’t figured out how to convert our post-disaster fascination into an enthusiasm for pre-disaster adaptation. We don’t quite know how, or aren’t quite willing to convert, a robust body of information about hazards into action, especially in the developing world.
Pandemic Payoff from 1918: A Weaker H1N1 Flu Today
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- Payoff from 1918: A Weaker H1N1 Flu Today
- from Scientific American
- Although the swine flu outbreak of 2009 is still in full swing, this
- global influenza epidemic, the fourth in 100 years, is already
- teaching scientists valuable lessons about pandemics past, those that
- might have been and those that still might be.
- Evidence accumulated this summer indicates that the novel H1N1 swine
- flu virus was not entirely new to all human immune systems. Some
- researchers have even come to see the current outbreak as a flare-up
- in an ongoing pandemic era that started when the first H1N1 emerged in 1918.
- As soon as the newest H1N1 virus burst onto the scene in the spring,
- it conspicuously assaulted the young and left the old mostly
- unscathed. To date, 79 percent of confirmed U.S. cases have been in
- people younger than 30 years and only 2 percent in people older than
- 65. In light of that lopsided attack pattern, investigators at the
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quickly started testing
- hundreds of human serum samples stored between 1880 and 2000, looking
- for evidence of past human experience with the novel H1N1 virus.
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Award for tsunami-alert girl [schoolchildren, preparedness]
Children need to be involved in preparedness. mpb Award for tsunami-alert girl The “gutsy” actions of a Wellington schoolgirl credited with saving lives in the Samoa tsunami will be acknowledged by the Government. http://www.stuff.co.nz/2953093/Award-for-tsunami-alert-girl
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Couch Surfing Challenge [homeless]
The Couch Surfing Challenge is an event organized to focus public attention on the problem of hidden homelessness. Just because you don’t see many people sleeping on the streets every night, doesn’t mean that there isn’t a problem with homelessness in the city. Challenge participants temporarily put themselves in the position of those who are forced to search for somewhere warm to sleep each night. For four nights, they are not allowed to go home and must sleep in a different location each evening. Participants can stay with friends or family, but nothing can be organized beforehand. Beds are off-limits, but sofas, hammocks and floors are fine.
