Posted on November 30th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
- See how you do on this test. “The Idiot Test”
- Chain smoking can alter chemical makeup of the brain
- Chemo drugs destroy brain cells
- Violent video games affect teens’ brains
- Was listening to the radio and heard that if you have anxiety attacks, then you probably don’t eat very well
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Posted on November 29th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
Amir posted this video in the comments in the previous post, but I wanted to share with everyone here…
Who says that it can’t be done?
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Posted on November 29th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
Will we see Cyborgs one day? 1,000 years ago some
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Posted on November 27th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
…to make a Student.
From the NY Times
On the morning of Oct. 5, President Bush and his education secretary, Margaret Spellings, paid a visit, along with camera crews from CNN and Fox News, to Friendship-Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus, a charter public school in Washington. The president dropped in on two classrooms, where he asked the [...]
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Posted on November 27th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
- A Memo to Young Black Men: GROW UP
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Posted on November 23rd, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
Last Monday (11/13/06), I received a phone call from a friend telling me that Rasul Madyun - a person that I had known for the better part of 10 years - had a brain aneurysm and admitted into the Howard University Hospital and had emergency surgery. Initially he was recovering well – though still sedated [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
Least anyone think that the Maniac Brigade are fans of Keith Ellison, they have made takfeer of him.
But then again, in these peoples’ eyes, there are only about 15,000 Muslims world-side…all of them insane.
Why is Al Qaeda trash-talking Keith Ellison?
In January, Ellison, 43, will become America’s first Muslim congressman. The Minneapolis Democrat, who converted [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
I saw Aslam Abdullah when he appeared on the Glenn Beck special talking about the false propaganda that is unfortunately spread throughout the Muslim world by the Muslims themselves.
I was not aware that he wrote a condemnation of these lunatics after one of their insane video releases.
I love my family and friends and they did [...]
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Posted on November 16th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
Baybers of Austrolabe talks about the failures of the “Islamist” movement. I can sum it up as being too based in canned slogans with no substance.
Meanwhile, The Combating Terrorism Center says that
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Posted on November 16th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
Found this video of a presentation by Roy Beck over at The Think
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Posted on November 15th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
According to research, taking tests improves long term memory
Students, don’t cringe, but new research suggests that the very act of taking a test is enough to enhance long-term memory. Furthermore, testing helps students remember not only what they studied for the test, but also related, non-tested concepts.
The results “imply that as long as students retrieved [...]
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Posted on November 13th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
For those into enhancing your brain power (or that of your kids) this site may be of interest to you.
It’s in my favorites. Verily, I have found it to be beneficial
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Posted on November 13th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
…probably should drop the fries
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Posted on November 10th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
I wonder if this meeting of Arab TV and movie producers condemning terrorism and racism will be a condemnation of their own racism and terrorism? If so, then that would be a good step to admitting a problem
For all of America’s flaws, one has to admit that
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Posted on November 10th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
- Iron deficient Infants Have Lower Cognitive Scores at 19
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