More random links
- What that plate under your coffee cup is actually for
- For drinking your coffee from of course
- Flu vaccine paradox adds to public health debate
- "During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, researchers at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control originally thought seasonal flu shots from 2008 might offer extra protection against the new pandemic strain. They were puzzled to find instead, seasonal flu vaccination almost doubled the risk of infection with pandemic flu."
- Do Students Really Have Different Learning Styles?
- "The scientific research on learning styles is “so weak and unconvincing,” concluded a group of distinguished psychologists in a 2008 review, that it is not possible “to justify incorporating learning-styles assessments into general educational practice.” A 2010 article was even more blunt: “There is no credible evidence that learning styles exist,” wrote University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham and co-author Cedar Riener. While students do have preferences about how they learn, the evidence shows they absorb information just as well whether or not they encounter it in their preferred mode."
- Alabama Texas fact of the day
- "'Revenues derived from college athletics is greater than the aggregate revenues of the NBA and the NHL' ... Alabama’s athletic revenues last year, which totaled $143 million, exceeded those of all 30 NHL teams and 25 of the 30 NBA teams." (Note that the article is from 2014 - not this year).