Math majors don't always get much respect on college campuses, but fat post-grad wallets should be enough to give them a boost.

The top 15 highest-earning college degrees all have one thing in common -- math skills. That's according to a recent survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which tracks college graduates' job offers.

Math challenged are also subject to the state tax on people that are bad at math and probability called the lottery.  Just grateful that spelling isn’t the main criteria.

He hasn't read it the Presidint said he wasn't familiar with it but it has to be passed right now. Who in D.C. had time to write it?

The 21st century equivalent of the bronze baby shoes is the 3-D printing of information from ultrasound and MRI scans.  The model is created by equipment similar to that used in Brandywine Project Lead the Way, preengineering courses.

 Using this technology a blind mother-to-be was able to “visualize” her future child. 

If the brightest minds on Wall Street got suckered by group-think into believing house prices would never fall, what other policies founded on consensus wisdom could be waiting to come unraveled? Global warming, you say? You mean it might be harder to model climate change 20 years ahead than house prices 5 years ahead? Surely not – how could so many climatologists be wrong?

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.— Richard Feynman

 Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), scientist, teacher, raconteur, and musician. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, expanded the understanding of quantum electrodynamics, translated Mayan hieroglyphics, and cut to the heart of the Challenger disaster. But beyond all of that, Richard Feynman was a unique and multi-faceted individual. – From Feyman Online

These salaries are for those whose highest degree is a bachelor’s. Pennsylvania is well represented with University of Pennsylvania, Bucknell,Lehigh and Carnegie Mellon.

Tom Wolfe author of “The Right Stuff” looks back on what went wrong with the space progarm.  Seems we had plenty of engineers who could work out the “How” questions but NASA didn’t have the philosphers to answer the more imporant “Why”. 

Unfortunately, NASA couldn’t present as its spokesman and great philosopher a former high-ranking member of the Nazi Wehrmacht with a heavy German accent.

In other NASA news the original TV video of the moon landing was erased.

The original videos beamed to Earth were stored on giant reels of tape that each contained 15 minutes of video, along with other data from the moon. In the 1970s and '80s, NASA had a shortage of the tapes, so it erased about 200,000 of them and reused them. How did NASA end up looking like a bumbling husband taping over his wedding video with the Super Bowl? Nafzger, who was in charge of the live TV recordings back in the Apollo years, said they were mostly thought of as data tapes. It wasn't his job to preserve history, he said, just to make sure the footage worked. In retrospect, he said he wished NASA hadn't reused the tapes.

Typical bureaucrat response of “not my job” it is a wonder we ever got off the ground.  However copies have been scrounged from around the world and are being digitized by Lowry Digital of Burbank who previously saved “Casablanca”.

The military schools’ population is decidedly downscale, “Forty percent of students are minorities, 50 percent of the students eligible for free lunches, and a 35 percent annual mobility rate.” And yet, DoDEA gets good results and has a much smaller achievement gap between white and minority students than you see elsewhere.

It’s not entirely clear what lessons you should take for public school reform from these facts since the DoDEA schools are run in a totally different way from public schools in the United States. But one lesson is that there’s a decent case that public education in the United States really ought to be radically different from how it is; much more standardized and centrally directed rather than seen as basically a local community amenity.

So does an ideal educational policy tell other schools, “be more like military schools”? Or does it tell parents, “be more like military parents”?

Sorry but no video that wasn’t invented till 1962

The big lie behind the Obama promise of "if you like your health plan, you can keep it," is exposed.

There is also a very troubling “Why don’t you just die already provison?”

“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’” Biden said. “The answer is yes, that's what I’m telling you.”

This guy is unbeliveable there is no connection between a working brain and his mouth.

Biden told the group that the Obama health plan will not eliminate people’s ability to choose their health care insurance and that people who cannot afford insurance will be covered by the plan.
 
“They’ll be a deal in there so there’s competition, so what you’ll have in there is you’ll have the ability to go in there and say, ‘Now look, this is the policy I want. This is the one,” Biden said.

Dear Mr. Vice President you might want to read the damn bill before spouting off and you wouldn’t have to read very far.  On page 16 the current bill expressely forbids insurance companies from signing up new customers.

Several interesting opinion maps showing how views differ across the country.  

Hard to believe that high school students today weren’t even born when the wall came down back in 1989.  Now there is very little remaining with more of it in places like Los Angeles and Moscow than in Berlin. 

Book Glutton is a web site where people can read and chat about a book as they read.  Readers wirte in the virtual margins of online books and other readers can respond. 

The site has been getting a lot of interest from teachers, including New York University English professor Jessamyn Hatcher, who asked her class to use BookGlutton to read King Lear.

Hatcher says it was perfect for reading a text as complex and poetic as Shakespeare — and student Lila Tod agrees.

"It was really nice because people could say their different point of view … kind of like you would do in class, but we were outside of class," Tod says.

Hatcher says Tod and the other students were already engaged in the subject matter by the time they got to class: "They'd been having these conversations in the margins all night long, and I think this allowed our conversations to be deeper and richer than they would have been otherwise."

Now playing: Joni Mitchell - Blue

If you want to earn more than the average forgot about grades and concentrate on being tall.  For a male there is an almost $1,000 in extra income per every inch over 5’9”.  Also there is a gap between men that are the same height and weight. The gap depending on how tall they were at 16 with the taller one at that age having a significant advantage. 

The last President to be shorter than the average of 5’9” was William McKinnley at 5’7” and his nickname in the press was “Little Boy”.  He did end up with the tallest mountain in North America named after him.

Now playing: The Corrs - Somebody for Someone

I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices. — Mark Twain

Now playing: The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out

Great video for all of us that have had to deal with airlines indifference to damaged bags.

UPDATE: Video is now in the Number 2 spot at Viral Videos with over 2 million views.

Now playing: Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson

While it may have seen like a relatively cool summer here latest reports show that 2009 has been one of the 10 ten warmest years of the 21^st century.

Now playing: Robert Earl Keen, Jr. - The Front Porch Song

Become reacquainted with the Potter gang this Friday. A showing of the fifth movie will be shown in the multipurpose room at the Herny Health Center on the grounds of the Topton Luthern Home.  The lights will dim and the magic will commence at 7:00 pm this Friday July 10th.

This free fun for the whole family event will include refreshments and prizes is sponsoned by your local Brandywine Community Library.

A multi-million pound initiative to reduce teenage pregnancies more than doubled the number of girls conceiving.

The Government-backed scheme tried to persuade teenage girls not to get pregnant by handing out condoms and teaching them about sex.

But research funded by the Department of Health shows that young women who attended the programme, at a cost of £2,500 each, were ’significantly’ more likely to become pregnant than those on other youth programmes who were not given contraception and sex advice.

A total of 16 per cent of those on the Young People’s Development Programme conceived compared with just 6 per cent in other programmes.

Nonetheless, a little-noticed study the Labor Department released several months ago found that the benefits of the biggest federal job training program were “small or nonexistent” for laid-off workers. It showed little difference in earnings and the chances of being rehired between laid-off people who had been retrained and those who had not.

I worked on the television show girlfriends starring Tracee Ellis Ross who is daughter of Diana Ross who was besties w/Michael Jackson who gifted Diana to be 2nd in line to the kiddies..therefore I'm only like 4th or 5th in line to being Blankets [Prince Michael II] new mommy