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http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/why-computers-suck-at-maths-644771

 
Is There a 'Bad Driver' Gene?
 

 

Prayers and Criticism After F.B.I. Kills Imam

 

 


Southern Cornbread Dressing MuffinsIt’s the season for dressing up, starting with the cornbread.


November NightThe wind goes keening through the dark,

Disconsolate for what is lost—

The rose, the leaf, the lyric stream

Now songless under ice and frost.

 

 

 
12 Causes of fatigue and how to fight it
 
After all the fuss, govt health plan to cover few
 
 
lagniappe
 

 

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Youth and Age

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying,

Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee -

Both were mine! Life went a-maying

With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,

When I was young!

When I was young? -Ah, woeful When!

Ah! for the change 'twixt Now and Then!

This breathing house not built with hands,

This body that does me grievous wrong,

O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands

How lightly then it flashed along,

Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore,

On winding lakes and rivers wide,

That ask no aid of sail or oar,

That fear no spite of wind or tide!

Nought cared this body for wind or weather

When Youth and I lived in't together.

Flowers are lovely; Love is flower-like;

Friendship is a sheltering tree;

O the joys! that came down shower-like,

Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty,

Ere I was old!

Ere I was old? Ah woeful Ere,

Which tells me, Youth's no longer here!

O Youth! for years so many and sweet

'Tis known that Thou and I were one,

I'll think it but a fond conceit -

It cannot be that Thou art gone!

Thy vesper-bell hath not yet tolled -

And thou wert aye a masker bold!

What strange disguise hast now put on,

To make believe that thou art gone?

I see these locks in silvery slips,

This drooping gait, this altered size:

But Springtide blossoms on thy lips,

And tears take sunshine from thine eyes:

Life is but Thought: so think I will

That Youth and I are housemates still.

Dew-drops are the gems of morning,

But the tears of mournful eve!

Where no hope is, life's a warning

That only serves to make us grieve

When we are old:

That only serves to make us grieve

With oft and tedious taking-leave,

Like some poor nigh-related guest

That may not rudely be dismist;

Yet hath out-stayed his welcome while,

And tells the jest without the smile.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

gleans + 1xaddenda at 9:15 AM MT, 10/31 (Halloween for the less alert)

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“It is much better to read books of travel than to travel oneself,” Somerset Maugham wrote. Pico Iyer is grateful he failed to take his own advice... more»
 
Science may at last help us to answer the eternal political question: really now, are liberals smarter than conservatives?... more»
 
Could texting be good for students?
 
Iran's Nuclear Response Creates a Quandary for Obama

By ANDREW LEE BUTTERS - By pushing back against what Western powers regard as the key aspect of a nuclear deal, Tehran is making clear that there'll be no quick diplomatic solution to the standoff

 

 
Cyberattacks traced to N. Korea
 
 
addenda - education stuff from the NYT
 

The R.O.T.C. Dilemma
By MICHAEL WINERIP



Joyce Dopkeen for The New York Times
SYMBOLS Anthony Runco, left, and Taylor Giffen as cadets at Yale, at the Memorial Quadrangle Gate (forged with crests of the armed services).

The ban of the program at the elites is in its 40th year. Yet the students are hardly antimilitary. The opposite, in fact. Is it time to bring R.OT.C. back?

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At Public Universities: Less for More
By PAUL FAIN
Why top flagships are raising tuition, enrolling better students and becoming more like privates. And why that may not be a good thing.

Slide Show: Public University Snapshots
Graphic: States' Evidence
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The Whole Applicant
By LISA W. FODERARO
Who are you, really? State schools want to know.

For Debate: Who Picks School Board
By WINNIE HU
In Montclair, N.J., which will vote on whether to change its appointed board, groups and countergroups have formed on each side.



Drop the Halloween Mask! It Might Scare Someone
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Deeming some Halloween traditions too scary or offensive, schools across the country are limiting what costumes are acceptable.

Slide Show
City Room: Only-in-New York Costume Ideas
Post a Comment

College Enrollment Set Record in 2008
By TAMAR LEWIN
Almost 40 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds were enrolled in college last year, a Pew Research Center study found.



After Error by Yale, Anger and a Court Fight Ensue
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
A major Korean university in Seoul has accused Yale of negligence after it mistakenly confirmed a professor’s claims of having a Ph.D.

Federal Researchers Find Lower Standards in Schools
By SAM DILLON
A study shows that nearly a third of the states lowered their academic standards to avoid the penalties under the No Child Left Behind law.
 
 
 
 
 
 

gleans at 6:25 PM MT, 10/30

Poll: 23 percent of American adults believe in ghosts
 

Spooky tech tales to make your computer crawl

We asked readers to send in their spookiest tech tales in advance of Halloween, and they delivered the gore. Get ready to be scared.

 

Having My Cake and Eating It Too
By MELISSA CLARK



Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times

This sweet, gooey butter cake resembles the center of a pecan pie, with a crackling crust.

The Minimalist



To the Middle East, With Collard Greens
By MARK BITTMAN
These little meatballs made with lamb, bulgur, cumin and mint are destined to become part of a dish that’s Middle Eastern in spirit.

Video: Lamb Meatballs

 
This Week’s Recipes

Lamb Meatballs And Collard Dolmades

St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

Apple-Beet Chutney

Ginger-Apple Upside-Down Cake

Fresh Apple Salsa

Curry-Glazed Duck Legs

Recipes for Health: Risotto With Winter Squash and Collard Greens

Recipes for Health: Potato and Collard Green Hash

Hungarian Cabbage Strudel

Brussels Sprouts With Bacon and Figs

Leek Bread Pudding

Sautéed Chicken Breasts With Tarragon

Seafood in Stout

Lobster Cantonese

Recipes for Health: Collard Greens With Farro

gleans + 1xlagniappe at 9:55 AM MT, 10/30

Asterix and the golden jubilee
guardian.co.uk - ... her translation solution – to use very dated, stilted, 'upper class twit' language in the style of PG Wodehouse – met with the French writer's approval. ...

 

Email has its faults, but it has also been, like journalism early in the 20th century, a cleansing agent for prose, inhibiting dull, abstract wordiness... more»

Science has set out to explain human life and its origins but has succeeded only in emphasizing that life is a mystery and we a mystery to ourselves ... [more]

Cheap and disgusting: Delicacies of the world

Ghost stories from haunted Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/6461939/Ghost-stories-from-haunted-Britain.html

***lagniappe***

Traditional Scottish Songs
- Flow Gently, Sweet Afton

When Robert Burns sent this song to Mrs Dunlop he commented "There is a small river, Afton, that falls into the Nith, near New Cumnock, which has some charming, wild, romantic scenery on its banks."

 

Flow Gently, Sweet Afton

Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes,
Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
Though stock-dove whose echo resounds from the hill,
Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny dell,
Thou green created lapwing, thy screaming fore-bear,
I charge you, disturb not my slumbering fair.

How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighbouring hills,
Far marked with the courses of clear winding rills.
There daily I wander, as morn rises high,
My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye.
How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below,
Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow.
There oft, as mild evening creeps over the lea,
The sweet scented birk shades my Mary and me.

Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides
And winds by the cot where my Mary resides.
How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave,
As gathering sweet flow'rets, she stems thy clear wave.
Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes,
Flow gently , sweet river, the theme of my lays.
My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.

Meaning of unusual words:
braes=hillsides
birk=birch
cot=cottage
lave=wash

Return to the Index of Traditional Scottish Songs

gleans at 7:25 PM MT, 10/29

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atlantic food

Apple Dessert, Two Ways

by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

With or without butter, the secret is getting the crust right and keeping the apples tart enough to be interesting.

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Big snowstorm moving out of Colorado to Kan., Neb.
 
Outrage at Wall Street: After bailout, bonuses rise
 
Huge explosion was biggest space rock to strike Earth since 1994
 
Getting enough sleep? They aren't in West Virginia
 
College Enrollment Hit a Record in 2008
By TAMAR LEWIN - Almost 40 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds were enrolled in college last year, a Pew Research Center study found
 
Handpicked
By CHRISTINE MUHLKE

 

David La Spina for The New York Times

From left: Sophia, Polly, Tim, Rita and Karen Bates.

Trading the French Laundry for an apple farm in Northern California.

Recipes: Curry-Glazed Duck Legs | Fresh Apple Salsa | Apple-Beet Chutney | Ginger-Apple Upside-Down Cake
Slide Show: Autumn Harvest
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

gleans at 1:50 PM MT, 10/29

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This year's wild mushroom season is late but worth waiting for, says Wiltshire forayer Peter Marren

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/outdoors/6454746/The-magic-of-Britains-wild-mushrooms.html

 
The real-time search revolution is here

After striking deals with Facebook and Twitter, the web's search engine giants are primed to deliver breaking news and information across the planet.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6459016/The-real-time-search-revolution-is-here.html

 
Hallowe'en, America's second biggest festival has eclipsed Britain's Bonfire Night. Andrew Martin is alarmed

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/6454729/Why-has-Halloween-eclipsed-bonfire-Night.html

 
Robins can 'see' the Earth's magnetic field which allows them to navigate, scientists believe.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6455338/Robins-can-see-Earths-magnetic-field.html

 
Songs That Won The War showcases the best-loved songs from the Second World War.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/6454528/Songs-That-Won-The-War.html

 

 

Economy growing but recovery could be at risk

Video Will We Know The Recession Is Over?

Related: First-time jobless claims drop less than expected

 

Internet turns 40 with birthday party

 

 

 
 
 
 

gleans + 1xlagniappe at 11:20 AM MT, 10/29

 

Storm dumps snow on Rockies, plains, more forecast

 

Groundhog Day
By Joshua Keating - Ten stories that appear in the papers again and again, but never seem to actually happen.

 

Pakistan's Baghdad Bob
By David Kenner - Pakistan military spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas has mastered the art of spinning Western journalists.

 

Celebrating 40 years of the net

BBC News - Mark Ward - ‎He is currently driving a Darpa research project to get the net ready for the next 40 years. The work is concentrating on ways to improve security, ...

 

James Fergusson falls into bookselling; Then and Now

 

 

lagniappe

 

Henry Reed, "The Naming of Parts", published in the New Statesman

 

LESSONS OF THE WAR

To Alan Michell

Vixi duellis nuper idoneus
Et militavi non sine gloria

I. NAMING OF PARTS

To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,
To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
          And to-day we have naming of parts.

This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
          Which in our case we have not got.

This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
          Any of them using their finger.

And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
          They call it easing the Spring.

They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
          For to-day we have naming of parts.

Part II. "Judging Distances" »

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 7:15 AM MT, 10/29

 

Storm dumps snow on Rockies, plains, more forecast
DENVER - A storm bringing the first heavy snows of autumn to a large swath of the Rockies and western plains crippled parts of Colorado and Wyoming Wednesday, forcing road closures and sending students home early as the region battled up to 2 feet of snow but braced for twice that.

 

Looking At What's Still Wrong with Wall Street

By ALLAN SLOAN - The giant financial institutions that make up Wall Street have been bailed out, thanks to trillions of dollars of our money, and are on track to hand out record-breaking multibillion-dollar bonuses while millions of regular folks are hurting

 

U.S. stocks suffer biggest drop in nearly a month, triggering global pullback

By Tom Petruno

Investors flee on downbeat home-sales and GDP news. In the U.S., broad market indexes suffer their sixth decline in the last seven sessions. Many foreign markets fall more sharply than Wall Street.

GPS system puts Droid phone on the map

By David Colker

With Google in its corner, Verizon capitalizes on the search giant's navigation tools.

Google Steps Into Another Market: GPS for Phones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans at 8:20 PM MT, 10/28

 

Stellar blast is record-breaker

BBC News - Victoria Gill - ‎Before this record-breaking event, the furthest object observed from Earth was a gamma ray burst 12.9 billion light-years away. ...

 

Tips for boosting your Social Security benefits

 

10 Best big cities for easy breathing

 

Man got paid 4 years without working for the company

 

Global Rise in Makeshift Bombs Worries U.S.

By THOM SHANKER - Improvised explosive devices, as the military calls them, are spreading beyond the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

Obama eyes smaller Afghan troop option, sources say

 

Jerusalem poses new crisis for Obama as tensions rise

 

Interview: Obama 'never 100 percent certain'

 

Turmoil from climate change poses security risks

 

Feds: Leader of radical Islam group killed in raid
DETROIT - Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested several members of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S., killing one of its leaders at a shootout in a Michigan warehouse, the U.S.

 

 

 

 

 

 

gleans + 1xlagniappe + 1xbooks at 1:45 PM MT, 10/28

 

Vincent van Gogh The Letters

View all 902 letters from and to Van Gogh, richly annotated and illustrated ... Exhibition: Van Gogh's letters, The artist speaks, Van Gogh Museum

 

Volcanoes played a warming role to kick off a deadly ice age ... [more]

 

People with phantom limbs learn physically impossible body tricks ... [more]

 

If we can't find life-bearing planets, how about hunting for life-friendly moons instead ... [more]

 

Richest dead celebrity? It's not Michael Jackson

 

It's no mystery: Book Sleuth has new digs | sleuth, book, call ...

Reddit. It's no mystery: Book Sleuth has new digs

 

 

lagniappe

 

may i feel said he ~ E. E. Cummings

 

may i feel said he
(i'll squeal said she
just once said he)
it's fun said she
 
(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she
 
(let's go said he
not too far said she
what's too far said he
where you are said she) 

may i stay said he
which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she

may i move said he
is it love said she)
if you're willing said he
(but you're killing said she

but it's life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she

(tiptop said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she
 
(cccome?said he
ummm said she)
you're divine!said he
(you are Mine said she)

 

 

 

Books

 

POSTE RESTANTE: A LAWRENCE TRAVEL CALENDAR.Introduction by Mark Schorer. by Harry T. Moore (Hardcover - Jan 1, 1956)

 

Intractable Disputes about the Natural Law: Alasdair MacIntyre and Critics by Lawrence S. Cunningham (Paperback - Jul 1, 2009)

 

Thomas Mawson: Life, gardens and landscapes by Janet Waymark (Hardcover - May 5, 2009)  Buy new: $65.00 $40.95

 

Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne (Hardcover - Mar 9, 2010)  Buy new: $25.99 $17.15  (1)

 

Plan B by Paul Muldoon (Hardcover - Sep 1, 2009)

Buy new: $33.95 $25.80

 

When the Pie Was Opened (Cahier Series) by Paul Muldoon and Lanfranco Quadrio (Paperback - April 20, 2008)

 

Weeds and Wild Flowers by Alice Oswald and Jessica Greenman (Hardcover - April 2, 2009)

 

A Sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice Oswald (Paperback - 2 April 2009)   (2)

 

Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell (Hardcover - Dec 1, 2009)

 

For Richer, for Poorer: A Love Affair With Poker by Victoria Coren (Hardcover - Sep 17, 2009)

 

Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making - Includes Two Unpublished Poirot Stories by John Curran (Hardcover - Sep 3, 2009)

 

Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues by William Ferris (Hardcover - Aug 28, 2009)

 

Notes on Sontag (Writers on Writers) by Phillip Lopate (Hardcover - Mar 29, 2009)

 (3)

 

Consider The Eel: A Natural And Gastronomic History by Richard Schweid (Paperback - Oct 20, 2008)

 

There's Something About Gdel: The Complete Guide to the Incompleteness Theorem by Francesco Berto (Paperback - Nov 16, 2009)