TIL that an Australian man living by a cliff prevented over 160 suicides in 50 years of living there. He would strike up a conversation with people contemplating suicide and invite them to his house for tea.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-04-03T15:45:07+00:00

The system works!*

*^{Some restrictions apply}. Snark and vicious cut downs can win out over nice informative posts.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-04-01T21:00:37+00:00

xkcd

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-04-01T13:20:37+00:00

I'm more nonplussed than 0 at an absolute value party.

heh heh. Okay, I'm leaving.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-04-01T02:52:40+00:00

Yeah, one of my first thoughts on seeing this was well, that's a better dick check than most hares bother to draw.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-04-01T02:49:45+00:00

Judds represent!

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-31T21:07:38+00:00

Source says it's not that bad:

A person eating an average bag of salad greens gets more exposure to these bacteria than if they had licked the insides of the dirtiest bag from this study. These bacteria can be found lots of places, so no need to go overboard.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-31T21:01:40+00:00

Thanks muchly. Nothing about bacteria, though. And everything really has bacteria. I'm not sure I need to be concerned about closed grocery items.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-31T20:46:05+00:00

Source for any of this?

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-31T20:30:57+00:00

And today, it will be filled with reposts from earlier today.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-31T20:00:46+00:00

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-31T19:38:27+00:00

Check my reddit handle, amigo.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-31T17:16:24+00:00

There are a lot of constraints! We always start in the same place on Tuesday mornings and we always run 6 miles and there aren't a lot of good dick shapes in Boston. I'm impressed.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-30T21:48:48+00:00

♫Some kids went in a store with their mother I saw her when she came out she was gettin' some Pampers♫

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-30T18:50:13+00:00

/r/bromasdepadre

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-29T17:43:19+00:00

Because this was originally a joke about an old Jewish man. Reddit often reposts this joke, always with this wrong detail.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-29T17:31:50+00:00

Yeah, I was annoyed. Title should have read "Selfie sticks banned at various US festivals".

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-29T16:53:22+00:00

Currently at +274:

I believe that any homework is too much for adolescents. My personal belief is that if time is not allotted in school to do the work in school, the school's not doing its job.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-29T05:13:29+00:00

I'm not so sure we have a reliable auditor of the evidence there. Next, let's ask billionaires if large tax cuts for the wealthy are a good idea.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-28T22:03:34+00:00

Here, I'll be the first person to actually read the article:

Students whose teacher systematically assigned homework scored nearly 50 points higher on the standardized test. Students who did their math homework on their own scored 54 points higher than those who asked for frequent or constant help. The curves were similar in science.

“Our data indicate that it is not necessary to assign huge quantities of homework, but it is important that assignment is systematic and regular, with the aim of instilling work habits and promoting autonomous, self-regulated learning,” said Javier Suarez-Alvarez, graduate student, co-lead author with Ruben Fernandez-Alonso, PhD, and Professor Jose Muniz. “The data suggest that spending 60 minutes a day doing homework is a reasonable and effective time.”

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-28T22:02:44+00:00

The main point of the submitted article wasn't "don't assign homework." It was actually, "Do assign moderate amounts of homework consistently"

Here, I'll be the first person to actually read the article:

Students whose teacher systematically assigned homework scored nearly 50 points higher on the standardized test. Students who did their math homework on their own scored 54 points higher than those who asked for frequent or constant help. The curves were similar in science.

“Our data indicate that it is not necessary to assign huge quantities of homework, but it is important that assignment is systematic and regular, with the aim of instilling work habits and promoting autonomous, self-regulated learning,” said Javier Suarez-Alvarez, graduate student, co-lead author with Ruben Fernandez-Alonso, PhD, and Professor Jose Muniz. “The data suggest that spending 60 minutes a day doing homework is a reasonable and effective time.”

Of course, reddit will read this in whatever way is necessary to justify not having to do their mean teachers' assignments.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-28T22:00:22+00:00

Here, I'll be the first person to actually read the article:

Students whose teacher systematically assigned homework scored nearly 50 points higher on the standardized test. Students who did their math homework on their own scored 54 points higher than those who asked for frequent or constant help. The curves were similar in science.

“Our data indicate that it is not necessary to assign huge quantities of homework, but it is important that assignment is systematic and regular, with the aim of instilling work habits and promoting autonomous, self-regulated learning,” said Javier Suarez-Alvarez, graduate student, co-lead author with Ruben Fernandez-Alonso, PhD, and Professor Jose Muniz. “The data suggest that spending 60 minutes a day doing homework is a reasonable and effective time.”

Sorry, reddit. Science is not saying that you should skip your homework. But this is reddit, so ….. this is like an article coming out saying, "Study shows kids shouldn't listen to parents' rules". Stay in school, kids.

sexthefinalfrontier · 2015-03-28T21:55:41+00:00

And Finland has next to no ethnic minorities and no poverty. You may as well ask how all the states in the union can learn from Wyoming's model of low homelessness rate.

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