Saturday, December 27, 2008

Better Do Your Homework

An Egyptian court has sentenced a schoolteacher to six years in jail for beating a pupil to death because he had not done his homework.

And I thought I was strict.


via bbc.co.uk

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

He said, she said

A Senegalese man in his 70s opened fire on a rap group, injuring four of them, during a live show because he thought they were making fun of him in their song titled "Angry Old Man."

They're just feelings right?

via abc.net.au

Academic Doping

Inexpensive drugs may even have the potential to be a more egalitarian way to get ahead than expensive tutoring, they say.

Brain pills could give an edge to nations whose citizens opt to raise their intelligence, suggests neuroethicist Julian Savulescu of the University of Oxford.

This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends
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