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Building A Better Student: A New Resolution - Addition, Not Subtraction

(In this final installment for 2012 of Dom's syndicated column, Building A Better Student, he gives you - and your kids - a new way of looking at the new year.)

 

There’s something about the calendar flipping over to a new year that motivates people to

News for Nerds - Sleep and Hunger Edition

Welcome back to News for Nerds! This week we crash space probes into the moon, build a new country in the middle of the ocean, and do some last-minute holiday gift-shopping... nerd style. But first, here are your headlines.

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News for Nerds - Pee Brain Edition

Welcome back to News for Nerds! This week we'll sniff some aged gouda, reveal the power of maggot slime, and slim down some toddlers. But first, here are your headlines.

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One of the great breakthroughs -- and controversies -- in

Special Feature: Google Teacher Academy, Volume 3

Tracey Winey is the media specialist at Preston Middle School in Colorado -- and she's very good. She was recently selected to attend the prestigious Google Teacher Academy, at Google Headquarte

Building A Better Student: The Specialist

I listened to an interview with a professional baseball player, a pitcher who said his job was to work only in the seventh inning. Not the sixth inning, not the eighth or ninth; no, if he didn’t pitch just that one particular inning, he claimed, “I don’t know my role.”<br

Special Feature: Google Teacher Academy, Volume 2

Tracey Winey is the media specialist at Preston Middle School in Colorado -- and she's very good. She was recently selected to attend the prestigious Google Teacher Academy, at Google Headquarters

News for Nerds - Pinocchio Edition

Welcome back to News for Nerds! This week we talk dinosaurs, gorillas, and swimming robots. But first: here are your headlines.

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If you want to know whether someone is lying to you, just measure their nose. No, not the

Special Feature: Google Teacher Academy, Volume 1

Tracey Winey is the media specialist at Preston Middle School in Colorado -- and she's very good. She was recently selected to attend the prestigious Google Teacher Academy, at Google Headquarters in

America's Top Young Scientist is 14 Years Old

When it comes to bright ideas and serious innovation, there's no minimum age requirement.

Ninth-grader Deepika Kurup recently won the label of America's Top Young Scientist --

Building A Better Student: Fear of Failure

“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.” - John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.



It’s easy to associate Gardner’s observation with adults. Wh