Paul McCartney pays tribute to friend David Hockney: “We will miss his fabulous personality”
The great Bradford artist passed away this week at the age of 88 https://t.co/W1bXC1oRiZ
Niemiecka ministra Dorothee Bär określiła sytuację niemieckich studentów jako "bardzo uprzywilejowaną" i odrzuciła reformę ustawy o pomocy w kształceniu. Rozgniewało to wielu studentów
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W #USA w ciągu dekady liczba zdiagnozowanych przypadków spektrum autyzmu w badanych populacjach wzrosła o 175 proc., skok statystyczny dotyczy przede wszystkim dziewczynek. Badania wskazują, że ten skok wynika głównie z lepszej wykrywalności i zmian kryteriów medycznych
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The so-called “calculator riots” of 1986 serve as a powerful reminder that today’s anxieties about artificial intelligence replacing human thinking are far from new.
In April 1986, a determined group of math educators staged a vocal protest outside the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) annual convention in Washington, D.C. Led by influential textbook author John Saxon, demonstrators carried signs declaring, “The Button’s Nothin’ ’Til the Brain’s Trained.”
They were opposing the NCTM’s new recommendation to incorporate electronic calculators into mathematics education at every grade level, including homework and exams.
The protesters worried that reliance on calculators would erode students’ mental arithmetic skills, numerical intuition, and deep conceptual understanding, potentially creating a generation of “calcuholics” overly dependent on machines.
The NCTM countered that calculators would free students from repetitive, low-level calculations, enabling them to tackle more complex problem-solving and higher-order thinking. Ultimately, the debate led to a pragmatic compromise: students would first master core mathematical concepts and mental strategies before using calculators as tools for more advanced work.
This balanced approach allowed technology to enhance, rather than replace, mathematical reasoning.
Today, as schools navigate the rapid rise of generative AI, the 1986 calculator compromise offers a valuable blueprint: prioritize genuine understanding first, then thoughtfully integrate powerful new tools.
Women will do shit like this and then wonder why the entire planet and every major religion has imposed strict social restrictions on their sovereignty since the dawn of time in every place humans have ever lived
Sam argues that the left has been captured by Islamist ideology to the point of moral incoherence, championing jihadists on campuses and in mainstream institutions, while labeling anyone who raises concerns about theocracy or women's rights in the Muslim world as an Islamophobe
Telegram and Instagram work better in North Korea than in Russia
A Russian tourist who visited Pyongyang in February 2026 said that Telegram and Instagram there worked more reliably than in Russia.
And that was even before the April wave of restrictions. It turns out that even in one of the most closed countries in the world, access to social media was better than in Moscow.