Starving in silence - The Globe and Mail: "Starving in silence
With no machines and all the livestock eaten, quiet lingers in rural areas of nation where 8.7 million face hunger"
Friday, September 11, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Gleaning - Gleaners
Gleaning: One Way to Help the Community - Cali Keck, OlyCAP’s Americorps Volunteer focusing on community gardens asked me to let everyone know that we are fortunate in East Jefferson and Clallam counties to have community organizations helping gather food that would otherwise go to waste and distributing it to neighbors in need. The group in Port Townsend is Quimper Community Harvest, and they can be contacted at 379-0414, or sethrolland@gmail.com. Olympic Gleaners covers Port Angeles/Sequim and they can be reached at 360-452-4726 ext. 6282, olympicgleaners@gmail.com, or on their website http://www.olympicgleaners.org/.
They are looking for volunteers, trees and farms to glean, and recipients for the gleaned food.
They are looking for volunteers, trees and farms to glean, and recipients for the gleaned food.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber
Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber: "Of course, it’s not that simple; but if you believe Dr Tracy Alloway from the University of Stirling in Scotland, Twitter and Facebook are very different beasts when it comes to improve your “working memory“, which relates to “the structures and processes used for temporarily storing and manipulating information in short-term memory.”
Dr. Alloway has developed a working memory training programme for slow-learning children aged 11 to 14 at a school in Durham, and she found out that Facebook (Facebook) did wonders for working memory, improving the kids’ IQ scores, while YouTube (YouTube) and Twitter’s (Twitter) steady stream of information was not healthy for working memory. Also, playing video games, especially those that involve planning and strategy, can also be beneficial.
As with any such study, one needs to take the results with a grain of salt. Without going into the benefits of training working memory for improving your IQ results, it’s obvious that Facebook and Twitter are hard to compare. Facebook is extremely versatile: you can play games there, chat with your friends, view photos and videos; you can even take IQ tests.
Twitter is a much simpler, more streamlined service. Does that fact alone makes it detrimental to your working memory? Dr. Allowa"
Dr. Alloway has developed a working memory training programme for slow-learning children aged 11 to 14 at a school in Durham, and she found out that Facebook (Facebook) did wonders for working memory, improving the kids’ IQ scores, while YouTube (YouTube) and Twitter’s (Twitter) steady stream of information was not healthy for working memory. Also, playing video games, especially those that involve planning and strategy, can also be beneficial.
As with any such study, one needs to take the results with a grain of salt. Without going into the benefits of training working memory for improving your IQ results, it’s obvious that Facebook and Twitter are hard to compare. Facebook is extremely versatile: you can play games there, chat with your friends, view photos and videos; you can even take IQ tests.
Twitter is a much simpler, more streamlined service. Does that fact alone makes it detrimental to your working memory? Dr. Allowa"
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