Archive for September, 2009
09-09-15
Tags:psy117 Statstics Teaching NY Times published an article online on Sept 10 (according to the website, a version of this article appeared in print on September 11, 2009, on page A15 of the New York edition) titled Heckler’s District Mostly Supports the Outburst, in which the reporters cited 5 interviewees in support of Joe Wilson’s shouting "You lie!" during President […]
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09-09-14
Tags:Education Teaching Alliance for Childhood‘s report Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School does not seem to provide data on 2 critical questions: (a) how have the American kindergartens changed, and (b) why kindergarten?
It was a bit of a let down, after the introduction claimed that US kindergartens have gone through drammatic changes, to not being able to find a figure or a […]
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09-09-12
Tags:Linguistics Being a non-native speaker of English, I wonder about the name of BBC’s World Have Your Say – why "have"? Is "world" plural? Or is this imperative? "World has your say" clearly sounds bad, but can anybody tell me why?
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09-09-09
Tags:Computing I’ve been using Adobe Lightroom to manage/edit raw photo files from my Nikon D80. With my pictures spreat to a number of computers, I have recently adopted a recommended strategy to consolidate Lightroom catelogs to an external hard drive so that I can open the pictures on any computer.
After exporting a whole catelog from […]
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