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This is a revision of my first theory "the valenzetti solution" Please comment! I think this theory explains a lot of whats going on. the more I think about it, the more sense it makes. In the Sri Lanka Video, we are given the true meaning of the numbers. They are the core variables of an equation c...

It’s hard to believe 2008 is over. It feels like just last week I started Little Stream Software but I’ve been in business for over 18 months now. I’ve decided to do a short review of my 2008 goals: Grow my business to make $100,000 in revenue in 2008 Yea, that goal was a bit extreme for my fi...

And I feel very weird bringing this up, because by doing so, I feel like all the students that I and my former colleagues and many of my bloggy peeps have bemoaned since the day we started teaching - because I'm going to whine about grades. Feel free to click away now. [crickets...] [crickets......

That's what Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin allegedly once said to U.S. ambassador Averill Harriman. And Stalin was an expert on the topic since his regime killed as many 43 million people. It turns out that the mustachioed murderer may have been expressing an acute insight into human psychology. Earl...

College students who use wireless handheld devices called “clickers” to register answers to instructors’ questions during lectures are more likely to give correct responses after discussion with their peers, studies have found. But, researchers wondered, were students improving mer...

Advertise on NYTimes.comFor the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can’t For the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can’tBy MIGUEL HELFT MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. T. V. RAMAN was a bookish child who developed a love of math and puzzles at an early age. That passion didn’t change after gl...

The first ten bills of our new Socialist congress are out. It’s everything you might have hoped it would be. If you order in the next 20 minutes, you get… More handouts and useless government jobs! S.1 — American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. “To create jobs, restore...

Ugly: S.1—American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. “To create jobs, restore economic growth, and strengthen America’s middle class through measures that modernize the nation’s infrastructure, enhance America’s energy independence, expand educational opportunities, preserve a...