Oklahoma City district pushes pause on hip-hop curriculum
Oklahoma City Public Schools purchased Flocabulary, an education tool that uses rap and hip-hop to engage at-risk students, but complaints have caused administrators to take a second look.
BY MEGAN ROLLAND 43
Published: October 1, 2010
Concern over a new hip-hop curriculum that...
Surgeons Domingo Liotta and Denton Cooley placed it into Haskell Carp's chest on April 4, 1969 in Houston. They removed it 64 hours later when a donor heart became available.
But the heart did what it was supposed to do, explained Judy Chelnick, an associate curator at the...
Reuters – A hydrothermal vent snail (Alviniconcha sp.) found in Suiyo Seamount, Tokyo Hydrothermal Vent
WASHINGTON – The world's oceans may be vast and deep, but a decade-long count of marine animals finds sea life so interconnected that it seems to shrink the watery world.
An international effort to create a Census of Marine Life was...
Twitter has a new CEO. Again.
And just like last time, it's because Twitter is at a clear pivot point in its life: Now it's time to use Twitter's hit product and huge audience to print cash.
Today, the company announced that Twitter COO Dick Costolo would become its CEO, replacing Evan Williams. Williams became CEO two years ago, replacing...
New York Times conspiracist Frank Rich had a column over the weekend positioning the Christine O'Donnells of the world as "useful idiots" providing "populist cover" for shadowy billionaires, especially the Koch family, who are cashing in on anti-government sentiment they themselves don't believe in, in order to stage a political "coup." Excerpt:...
