^So should the two of us form SOL's first LGBT community? We should recruite unknown1 too... Ibti, it WOULD have worked if KK's uncontrollable giggling didn't give us away ----------------------------------- Girls = Boys at Math By David Malakoff ScienceNOW Daily News 24 July 2008 Zip. Zilch. Nada. There's no real difference between the scores of U.S. boys and girls on common math tests, according to a massive new study. Educators hope the finding will finally dispel lingering perceptions that girls don't measure up to boys when it comes to crunching numbers. "This shows there's no issue of intellectual ability--and that's a message we still need to get out to some of our parents and teachers," says Henry "Hank" Kepner, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Reston, Virginia. It won't be a new message. Nearly 20 years ago, a large-scale study led by psychologist Janet Hyde of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, found a "trivial" gap in math test scores between boys and girls in elementary and middle school. But it did suggest that boys were better at solving more complex problems by the time they got to high school. Now, even that small gap has disappeared, Hyde reports in tomorrow's issue of Science. Her team sifted through scores from standardized tests taken in 2005, 2006, and 2007 by nearly 7 million students in 10 states. Overall, the researchers found "no gender difference" in scores among children in grades two through 11. Among students with the highest test scores, the team did find that white boys outnumbered white girls by about two to one. Among Asians, however, that result was nearly reversed. Hyde says that suggests that cultural and social factors, not gender alone, influence how well students perform on tests. http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/724/1

^I thought it was REM there.

1. Digs a swimming pool 2. Fills it with alligators and venomous jellyfish 3. Puts a "MALE-FREE ZONE" sign-board up Sits back and waits. Shhhh @ the wimmin.

Today I reflected on the fleeting, ephemeral nature of summer (ie, I'm going to miss shirtless runners).

^What, like chromosomal abnormalities kind of special circumstances?

Finally. I resent that Ms DD. The last time I reduced a strong confident man to a quivering mass of raw terror and pain was April 2007. I have been clean for 16 months 12 days 4 hours and 36 minutes. I have the badge to prove it!

Ouch @ Ibti. And you can actually bear to be in the kitchen now? I burned my hand chasing a goat and now I can't stand the sight of them. Ngonge, like Ms DD we had a burjike and my earliest memory is trying to get a fire going at the crack of dawn. But I don't remember cooking as such as a child, mostly household chores like sweeping the floor (with those small hay brooms :mad: ), washing and drying the dishes, making beds, etc. I think at 5 I was expected to fetch and carry, not to make meals. Thankfully by the time I was old enough to cook we'd moved to the land of peanut butter and jam.

This corner needs to be fumigated. /Troll Corner Health Inspector's report

I'm forgetting how big five year olds are. Is she even able to see the top of the stove without standing on a stool? If you are going to teach her how to cook, start on something she likes to eat. Making tea is probably not that rewarding unless she drinks caano-iyo-shaah for breakfast (if it's the only thing she's going to get before dugsi, then she would develop a keen interest believe me). Baking cookies and cakes, making pizza and pancakes, all are fun AND taste good. Later you can get into the intricacies of shaah for guests vs. shaah for a jaad session

^That means your bride-to-be won't be born for another 20 years or so Her mother is probably in kindergarten as we speak.

JB, you think violence would speed up the process

^ Smooth.

LOL. Ah, the A*Team. Interestingly, I wouldn't have seen this ad if it wasn't "banned" (although technically it wasn't banned but pulled by the ad agency) since it doesn't even air in the States. Advertising firms exaggerate the number of complaints to manufacture controversy and get that much sought-after viral marketing cred.

LOL @ Pucca, the only North Korean that comes to mind is Kim Yung Il. And I thought you said you like them quiet and shy, not psychopathic and loud-mouthed.

LOL @ Stoic. Too late, waa hore ayaad suuqa iska xirtay. We all feel protective of She-who-must-be-obeyed's interests, you are her little waxar and no one else's Happy birthday @ Ibti. LOL @ dark side of 20. You youngsters and your crazy ideas.

A&T, I do care what people think. That's why I'm so nice to you Is Weylo-lagu-xidh a real place?

Yeah I don't know where the comparison comes from either. At least JB doesn't whine about how others perceive him all the time

Most kings never had it so good. *Off to be numero 87*

^You're trying too hard. And yes, I'm an ugly feminist. I'm so ugly that the city council will not let me live within 15 miles of a public school because I give children nightmares. And when I went to the zoo the other day the animal handlers shot me with a tranquilizer dart and put me in the hippo pen. They only let me go after a blood test. Since I will never find a man who is blind, deaf and has lost the sense of smell, I'm filled with bitter jealousy and hatred of attractive women. Just this morning I put dog poop in my pretty neighbor's mailbox, and now wait in delicious anticipation of her horrified screams. Only then can I go out (wearing a paper bag of course) and strangle small children and cute kittens for laughs.

This title reminded me of Extras. "Anyone? No? Dusssst. Anyone? No? Dussst."

I've always thought your avatar a terrifying negation of life LOZ. How's that for imagination? Ibti, a belated "going as well as can be expected thanks"

^LOL. I had a cup of soy chai today. The single worse abomination of tea ever invented. I forced myself to drink it because I didn't have time for lunch, and I was under the watchful gaze of the lactose-intolerant vegetarian who ordered it for me. I still can't get the taste out of my mouth and I fear I never will. How you been rudy?

^Wait till he gets poked

I see myself as some chubby psychedelic cartoon dinosaur dancing to my own tune. Hi Ibti

My Morbidly Obese Wife Said The Most Interesting Thing The Other Day