Tuesday, September 8, 2015

@9:10, 9/8/15

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Sports

Tony Parker Achieves European Milestone

Parker became the leading scorer in European championship history as he led France, the defending champion, to a 69-66 victory over Poland.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/ncaabasketball/index.html

Women's College Basketball
No games scheduled for
Sep 7, 2015

2
Opinion

The Pointless Banishment of Sex Offenders

Blanket residency-restriction laws disregard the reality that not all people who have been convicted of sex offenses pose a risk to children.

Blanket residency-restriction laws are probably unconstitutional.
Residency restrictions look like Bills of Attainder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attainder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder

3
Science

Flies Want Your Blood, Too

Biting flies may differ from mosquitoes in appearance in habits, but they are all members of the group known as true flies.

Yes.

4
Sports

Rodríguez Wins Vuelta Stage

Joaquim Rodríguez powered up the final ascent of the mountainous 15th stage of the Vuelta a España, reducing Fabio Aru’s overall lead to just one second.

It is a race.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/bicycles_and_bicycling/index.html

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Opinion

Teachers Aren’t Dumb

But a lot of the training they get in school is. We can do better.

I agree that dumb teachers are not the problem.

Professor Willingham suffers from a priori theory.
A place to start is empirical observation of children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_evidence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_priori_and_a_posteriori
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Fr%C3%B6bel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaget's_theory_of_cognitive_development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_stage_theories

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Opinion

How Reliable Are Psychology Studies?

Readers discuss what the inability to replicate more than half of 100 psychology studies means for the profession.

I would quote the computer science adage: GIGO; garbage in implies garbage out.

There are aspects the human mind that are hardwired.
Sociability is one.
Birth order seems to be another.
Sexuality is one.
Homosexuality is another.
Gender seems to be hardwired.
Justice is basic and probably hard wired.
Addiction; some is, some is not.
Language is a bit different.
The hardwired features probably do not belong to psychology though they frame it.

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Opinion

Drugs and Crime

Synthetic drugs, which are cheap and widely available in high-poverty neighborhoods, are believed to cause some users to become irrationally violent.

Drug use does not respect social class.
If novel drugs were causal I would expect to see a jump in violence across class boundaries.


Health

West African Child Is Paralyzed by Vaccine-Derived Polio

The patient’s parents traveled from Guinea to Mali seeking medical care. An emergency vaccination drive is being organized to forestall an outbreak.

Polio does that.

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U.S.

A Los Angeles Plan to Reshape the Streetscape Sets Off Fears of Gridlock

The City Council has approved a far-reaching transportation program that is part of a larger push to get people out of their cars and onto sidewalks.

The Plan is doing what the planners intended.
Inevitably Los Angeles will depend less on the automobile.

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U.S.

Alabama: Flight Attendant Complains of Religious Bias

A flight attendant for ExpressJet says she was wrongly suspended from her job last month because she refused to serve alcohol, citing her Muslim beliefs.

Her Muslim beliefs are incompatible with her job.
One or the other must go.

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N.Y. / Region

Rail Biking Arrives in Adirondacks, but Future of Track Is in Doubt

A new company called Rail Explorers has attracted thousands of visitors to ride a six-mile stretch of abandoned railroad track, but the state has targeted the railroad for demolition.

The state of New York has little imagination.   Keep the rails.  Put a plank parallel to them for road bikes and hikers.

12 
Science

A Western Showdown With Mussels

Several states in the Rocky Mountains are checking boats hauled on highways to try to keep mussels from invading waterways.

There is a bacterium that attacks these muscles.  It was found in the Hudson.
There appears to have been a seventeenth century infection in Lake Ontario that did not survive.

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N.Y. / Region

A Door-to-Door Push to Get Parents Involved at Struggling Schools

New York City thinks that the key to transforming low-performing schools is to get parents to show up more, by turning the buildings into one-stop community centers.

That will help some.
A living minimum wage would help more.
The Schools' big problem is parental extreme poverty.

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Business Day

Nonunion Employees Turn to Work Site Committees for Protection

As unions have weakened, work site committees offer an alternative that is easier to form and can guard workers’ rights and improve job conditions.

A union without the name.

Collective bargaining works.

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U.S.

Illinois: Town Pays Respects to Slain Officer

Several hundred police officers from around the country attended a funeral Monday for a lieutenant killed last week, and residents of the area turned out by the thousands to watch the hearse go by.

I expect the trio have left the area.

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The Upshot

Why There’s Disagreement Over Screening Every Child for Autism

Pediatricians tend to favor universal screening, but a national task force says a specific study is lacking.

1.5% is prevalent enough.
Screening for autism spectrum disorder fails the other tests.
Early intervention will  aid some obvious cases.

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Opinion

Calls for Stronger Regulation of E-Cigarettes

The American Academy of Pediatrics and a professor of public health discuss the harms of e-cigarettes.

Nicotine is an addictive drug.
It must be regulated. 

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Health

Oysters May Serve as Link in Transmission of Norovirus

The shellfish appear to be an important link in the transmission of norovirus among humans, according to research from China.

The easy way to detect Norovirus is to eat the oyster.


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World

Experts Reject Official Account of How 43 Mexican Students Were Killed

An international panel said there was no evidence to support the government’s conclusion that the college students who disappeared last fall were executed by a drug gang.

Lies do not help.
This cover story has failed.

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Sports

Young Stays Upbeat as Sneakers Vanish Along With Open Hopes

Donald Young, whose sneakers were mistakenly taken out of his locker Sunday, lost to Stan Wawrinka on Monday and was then eliminated in doubles as well.

7:10 PM ET  NESN 
Toronto (78-59, 31-34 Road)
Boston (65-72, 38-34 Home)

 Tor: R. Dickey  (10-10, 4.09 ERA)
 Bos: H. Owens  (2-2, 5.87 ERA)
Preview

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/sports/tennis/andy-murray-us-open-kevin-anderson-stan-wawrinka-donald-young.html

http://nytimes.stats.com/tennis/scoreboard.asp?tour=ATP


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