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...tool. The Iranian regime oppresses its own people, it is the largest state sponsor of international terrorism against innocents, it has threatened genocide against its neighbors, and now it is charging forward with a nuclear program despite a global consensus in peaceful opposition. There should be an exceedingly high standard to meet for divestment, but today Iran certainly meets that standard...
...DiPasquale is back with, to my surprise, some naked company and a new issue. I know this is standard porn justification, but really: please read it for the interviews. One of my favorite moments is GSD affiliate Andrea Smith’s thanking porn for “allowing her to quench her desire in a safe way.” Quench away, Andrea! The only thing dangerous about this spread is that precarious male-female pose on page nine...
...French psychologist Alfred Binet began developing a standardized test of intelligence, work that would eventually be incorporated into a version of the modern IQ test, dubbed the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. By World War I, standardized testing was standard practice: aptitude quizzes called Army Mental Tests were conducted to assign U.S. servicemen jobs during the war effort. But grading was at first done manually, an arduous task that undermined standardized testing's goal of speedy mass assessment. It would take until 1936 to develop the first automatic test scanner, a rudimentary computer called the IBM 805. It used electrical current...
...most famous standardized tests today. The SAT came first, founded in 1926 as the Scholastic Aptitude Test by the College Board, a nonprofit group of universities and other educational organizations. The original test lasted 90 minutes and consisted of 315 questions testing knowledge of vocabulary and basic math and even including an early iteration of the famed fill-in-the-blank analogies (e.g., blue:sky::____:grass). The test grew and by 1930 assumed its now familiar form, with separate verbal and math tests. By the end of World War II, the test was accepted by enough universities that it became...
...over the past two days. The parlous state of Greece's public finances has prompted credit-rating agency Fitch to lower the country's debt rating to BBB+, the lowest in the euro zone, Europe's single-currency region. Further blows could follow: rival agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's have threatened similar moves in recent days. (See 10 things to do in Athens...