This article obviously hits home with me being a catholic school dropout. You mean to say that my single-sex education of two years did nothing more than a coed education would have done? Sarah Sparks basically puts single-sex education on blast in this article. Studies are popping up showing that if a school is coed or not does nothing for a child's education. In fact it increases sexism in children. I have to say I do agree with that. Women are put on a pedestal at B.C. High, and I don't mean the big stool in the kitchen. I mean when a girl is at that school boys see a light from the heavens and hear an angelic chorus of of Beethoven's 9th symphony around her. However at Hanover girls are seen more as equals than a gift from God. It also plays into social lives as well. A B.C. High/NDA get together is a sad site to see. We just don't know how to act around each other which leads to many awkward silences.
The author use quotes from all sorts of doctors that are authorities in their positions. She does not let her own bias get into the article. She simply reports the facts and lets the reader make his or her own conclusions. She does let you know that her facts are credible though. She names a couple expert authors that contributed to a book that Sparks is basing her article off of.
Article: Researchers Blast 'Pseudoscience' of Single-Sex Education
Sunday, September 25, 2011
We're Gonna Go To.. Ludicrous Speed!
I chose to blog about this article because I originally saw the story in the form of a tweet from the Huffington Post that the speed of light had been broken, so I wanted to look into it. The Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN fired neutrinos through an underground system to San Grasso laboratory in Italy, and the neutrinos arrived 60 nanoseconds ahead of their 3 millisecond ETA. This means that they would have had to been traveling faster than the speed of light. Now I don't know a lot about speed of light travel and super synchrotrons, but I do know that the speed of light was never meant to be broken. If that is the case then Einstein was wrong with his theory of relativity.
The author first writes about the facts to get the reader acquainted with the story. She remains skeptical that the neutrinos actually surpassed the speed of light. She gives a specific example from supernova 1987 which had behavior very unlike the neutrinos from CERN. She finishes the article with a quote from Carl Sagan, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” She goes on to say that maybe, just maybe these neutrinos went faster than the speed of light. Kelly Oakes is obviously a non-believer for now, but she remains open in the article which in turn keeps the readers mind open to the possibility.
The author first writes about the facts to get the reader acquainted with the story. She remains skeptical that the neutrinos actually surpassed the speed of light. She gives a specific example from supernova 1987 which had behavior very unlike the neutrinos from CERN. She finishes the article with a quote from Carl Sagan, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” She goes on to say that maybe, just maybe these neutrinos went faster than the speed of light. Kelly Oakes is obviously a non-believer for now, but she remains open in the article which in turn keeps the readers mind open to the possibility.
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