Really worth reading!

Berthold Beitz, German industrialist who rescued Jews during World War II, dies at 99

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/berthold-beitz-german-industrialist-who-rescued-jews-during-world-war-ii-dies-at-99/2013/08/01/88d621f8-f9f8-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_story.html

Hatten wir diese 'sinnvolle' Entscheidung per Kreuzchen nicht gerade neulich in einer Umfrage??

Nun haben wir den Salat

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/third-gender-option-to-become-available-on-german-birth-certificates-a-916940.html

Er ist ein 59-jähriger Self-Made-Millionär und TV-Moderator, verdient sein Geld mit Software, Wein und Büchern wie "Die kalte, harte Wahrheit über Geschäfte, Geld und Leben." Sie ist eine Schülerin, die vor nicht allzu langer Zeit für ein Schulreferat das Thema Gen-Lebensmittel recherchierte. In einer TV-Show des kanadischen Senders CBC argumentierte das 14-jährige Mädchen den Medienprofi ins Abseits.

Zu sehen ist dies in einem Youtube-Video. Die Folge der kanadischen Talkshow "The Lang & O'Leary Exchange" vom 31. Juli verbreitet sich derzeit rasant im Netz, das Video wurde bisher knapp 1,5 Millionen Mal angeklickt.
Sie fordert ihn öffentlich heraus - und wird eingeladen...

Bitte erst den Artikel lesen, dann das Video (14 min.)gucken.
http://www.stern.de/wissen/ernaehrung/genfood-expertin-rachel-parent-14-jaehrige-argumentiert-talkshow-profi-ins-abseits-2054625.html

Und dann beantwortet mir doch bitte mal folgende Frage:
Wie viele 14jährige kennt ihr, die dermaßen eloquent und fundiert zu einem so schwierigen Thema argumentieren können?

Da ist nichts auswendig gelernt, sie ist einfach voll im Thema und hat es richtig verinnerlicht.

Ich bin total beeindruckt von solch einer Schülerin!!

sehr beeindruckend!

Nigerian Student Uses Magnets To 'Prove' Gay Marriage Is Wrong

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/nigerian-student-gay-marriage_n_3934518.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=2152712b=facebook

A parody video, satirizing the idea that women are to blame for rape, has gone viral in India. With over half a million hits in just three days, the video, by a comedy group, All India Bakchods, features Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin sarcastically “explaining” to women that rape is their fault.

At one point in the video, Koechlin wards off her attackers by calling them “Bhaiya” (brother) — a reference to a comment made by a religious leader last year, who said that the Delhi gang rape victim should have called her attackers “brothers” to avoid being raped.

The hard-hitting video satirizes many other such bizarre comments made by India’s political and community leaders over the past year. Their remarks have linked rape to everything from eating chowmein to using cell phones.

“Every sexual assault case in India inspires a string of stupid and hateful remarks against women,” the intro to the video on Youtube says. “This is our response to those remarks.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hC0Ng_ajpY

Benjamin Franklin spent his mornings naked. Patricia Highsmith ate only bacon and eggs. Marcel Proust breakfasted on opium and croissants. The path to greatness is paved with a thousand tiny rituals (and a fair bit of substance abuse) – but six key rules emerge.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/05/daily-rituals-creative-minds-mason-currey

This past Saturday, several hundred thousand prospective college students filed into schools across the United States and more than 170 other countries to take the SAT—$51 registration fees paid, No. 2 pencils sharpened, acceptable calculators at the ready. And as part of the three-hour-and-45–minute ritual, each person taking the 87-year-old test spent 25 minutes drafting a prompt-based essay for the exam’s writing section.


http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2013/10/sat_essay_section_problems_with_grading_instruction_and_prompts.html

Ganz schön abenteuerlich, sowohl für Schüler/Studenten als auch für die Lehrer/Korrektoren...

As the use of unqualified teachers in free schools has proved such a success, surely the Government must extend this method to other workplaces, such as operating theatres and nuclear submarines. The Royal Navy could use the same argument as Michael Gove, insisting there are plenty of excellent candidates who could command a nuclear sub, having fired torpedoes on Modern Warfare 2, but they’re put off by the red tape of having to prove they’re “qualified”, leaving our coast unprotected. ...


http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/of-course-you-dont-need-qualified-teachers-in-free-schools-or-qualified-brain-surgeons-for-that-matter-8916236.html

Look at the comments as well.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/the-liberation-wrapper-burger-women-small-mouths_n_4212192.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5kTiP4wDQU

I can't believe it!