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Sal Khan- The Learning Myth: Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart

9/30/2014

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From Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy. 

My 5-year-­old son has just started reading. Every night, we lie on his bed and he reads a short book to me. Inevitably, he’ll hit a word that he has trouble with: last night the word was “gratefully.” He eventually got it after a fairly painful minute. He then said, “Dad, aren’t you glad how I struggled with that word? I think I could feel my brain growing.” I smiled: my son was now verbalizing the tell­-tale signs of a “growth­ mindset.” But this wasn’t by accident. Recently, I put into practice research I had been reading about for the past few years: I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows. Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

Researchers have known for some time that the brain is like a muscle; that the more you use it, the more it grows. They’ve found that neural connections form and deepen most when we make mistakes doing difficult tasks rather than repeatedly having success with easy ones.

What this means is that our intelligence is not fixed, and the best way that we can grow our intelligence is to embrace tasks where we might struggle and fail.

Read the full article here.

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This could be you: Cowering and Scared

9/26/2014

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Earlier this week in LA, a terrified young woman had her apartment broken into and a deranged man chased her to the roof. This horrific picture of her hiding underneath an overhang while the crazy eyes of a potential killer seeks her makes the strongest of us empathize with her.

This, my friends, is why good people need to arm themselves with a gun, a bat, a knife, a baseball bat, hockey stick, or something so they can be in a position of control when something bad like this happens. While no one got hurt and she was safely rescued by police, if I were her I wouldn't want to take those chances again. I hope she considers how to enhance her safety after this terrible incident, and I wish her a fast and full recovery.

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iPhone 6+ vs .50BMG

9/25/2014

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Guess who wins?
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Infographic: How Silencers Work

9/25/2014

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By the great folks at SilencerCo.
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WaPo: Guns are 2014′s hottest campaign accessory

9/19/2014

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(Via WashingtonPost.com): By Jaime Fuller September 18  

So far this election, we've seen candidates shoot drones, televisions,elephant pinatas, Obamacare and targets that were metaphors for Obamacare in campaign ads. One candidate threatened to shoot those who tried to come into his home. Other candidates have brought guns to rallies, raffled them off to supporters or challenged their opponents to debates of accuracy at the shooting range.

In races where the candidates would rather talk about the character deficits of their opponents -- a routine that usually involves accusing the other of knowing national politicians or having lived too long in the city that both are expending so much energy and money to end up in -- voters are sometimes left with ownership of a gun, a snowmobile or a pick-up truck as the only thing they definitively know about a candidate by the time November comes along. Which is to say, nothing at all.


Read more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/18/guns-are-2014s-hottest-campaign-accessory/


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Please support the Shaneen Allen Defense Fund

9/18/2014

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From Guns.com: http://www.guns.com/2014/09/18/colion-noir-weighs-in-on-ray-rice-and-shaneen-allen-in-n-j-video

Ray Rice gets treated like a non-violent offender for beating his fiancee while Shaneen Allen gets treated like a violent criminal for making an honest mistake.

Once again, Noir delivers a message so on-point there’s no real reason to try and elaborate.

If you want to help, there’s the Shaneen Allen Defense Fund. It’s been pushed well over the top but there’s no such thing as too much of a legal fund. This woman is fighting for her kids and her future gun rights. It’s worth it, even just a couple of bucks.

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LA Unified School District has Grenade Launchers

9/17/2014

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Los Angeles Unified School District police officials are considering whether they need the armored vehicle and grenade launchers they received from the U.S. military.

OK hold on right there. WHAT??!

In a post-9/11 world, police forces across the country have been receiving military gear for free from the U.S. government, and now I think we've crossed a threshold where the militarization of police forces has gone too far. 

Thankfully, the story looks like it may have a happy ending with the gear going elsewhere, but this report is simply amazing that a school district has grenade launchers and an armored vehicle. 

Full article here and video below: 

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Ray Rice and Gun Control

9/17/2014

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Fellow NRA News Commentator Colion Noir makes a very interesting and logical connection between shamed NFL footballer slash domestic wife abuser Ray Rice and gun control.

Watch the whole video here:
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NYTimes finally admits that "assault weapon" is a mythical political term that does not address public safety 

9/16/2014

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Pretty amazing stuff. Here are some choice snippets from the larger article which is worth a read.
“Should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement,” a Department of Justice-funded evaluation concluded.

More than 20 years of research funded by the Justice Department has found that programs to target high-risk people or places, rather than targeting certain kinds of guns, can reduce gun violence.

“We spent a whole bunch of time and a whole bunch of political capital yelling and screaming about assault weapons,” Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu of New Orleans said. He called it a “zero sum political fight about a symbolic weapon.”
Full article: http://nyti.ms/1qKQAYA
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NOIR Season 1, Part 2 on NRA Freestyle

9/7/2014

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NOIR, one of my favorite gun shows is back for Part 2 on www.NRAFreestyle.tv. Check out the whole new format, the first episode is here:
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