Best Undergrad Degrees From PayScale Best Undergrad College Degrees By Salary Click on chart for full details. Success is not always measured in the biggest paycheck but getting a degree that is applicable does matter. Here are the degrees that pay the most cash. It seems that engineers make the most, but there is plenty […]
2009 PISA Reading Literacy Highlights PISA measures 15-year-old students every 3 years. The students were tested in 2009, and the next assessment will be in 2012. In 2009, out of the three categories (reading, mathematics, and science), reading was the main focus this time. PISA tests were administered between September and October of 2009. There were […]
The Employee Free Choice Act Could Become An Option Wal-Mart, the biggest employer of the United States, has received much criticism for its poor employee relations. The Greatest Recession has amplified those allegations, and even brought numerous lawsuits into the bigger picture. But Wal-Mart isn’t the only company breaking hourly wage laws. If you invest a […]
19 Nov
Posted by RD Bentley as Science Sightings, Technology
Meet The American Physicist Who Changed Our World Arguably, John Bardeen changed the world more than any other scientist in the latter part of the 20th century. Bardeen and a few of his very bright friends came up with the invention that sparked an electronic revolution, and burgeoned further than any one of us could ever have imagined. […]
The Power Lies With The Group In the 1950’s a psychology professor conducted a study too see if the power of Group Dynamics would affect the decision of an individual. The study yielded interesting results to say the least. Professor Solomon Asch, originally from Warsaw, performed the study in Pennsylvania. The Swarthmore College is located […]
Raising Taxes Has Become The Third Rail Of Politics Raising taxes is considered somewhat of a faux paux for Republicans in the White House. Democrats often rail on Reaganomics and the Trickle-down theory. But what do the Democrats intend do to about it? Instead of confronting the tax problem, Democrats opt to go along with it. Both parties […]
Page Title Reads Jump Or Redirect Here’s a virus that infects your computer in a sophisticated manner, more so than normal. TDL3, or TDSS if you will, is invisible to Windows and some anti-malware programs. Rootkit infects your computer by replacing normal hard drivers with malicious versions of drivers. The Main Symptons 1. The “tdsskiller rootkit” […]
The Young Plan Propels Hitler Into Power How could it be that the history books in America omit some of the most important pieces of evidence, that are crucial to real truths, which weighed heavily upon societal degradation of the 20th century? Is there any hard evidence that implicates the reasoning that American bankers helped to enact […]
The Liberal Nature Of The Media Our basis for the argument, or theory that is being proposed, is the liberal nature of journalism and the “free” press in the United States. The question always arises, “Is the mainstream media too liberal?” But before we get into a heated debate about Fox News versus MSNBC or […]
Spending cuts will push up unemployment to almost 3 million “Unemployment is not yet, but bids fair to be, the greatest of the British industries,” as was published in the Manchester Guardian in 1928. By the end of 1928, 1.2 million Brits were out of work. The national unemployment rate was 12.2%. In Wales and in […]