unsettling statistics

"At least 30 million American adults don't read well enough to fill out a job application, according to the nonprofit ProLiteracy. That's about 14 percent of the country's adult population. Only a fraction seek help."

...writes my friend, the journalist

(no subject)

your word of the day is: portend

your article of the day is: the benjamin franklin effect

The brain scans of a person shown statements which oppose their political stance show the highest areas of the cortex, the portions responsible for providing rational thought, get less blood until another statement is presented which confirms their beliefs. Your brain literally begins to shut down when you feel your ideology is threatened. Try it yourself. Watch a pundit you hate for 15 minutes. Resist the urge to change the channel. Don’t complain to the person next to you. Don’t get online and rant. Try and let it go. You will find this is excruciatingly difficult.

and your blog of the day is you are not so smart

there is a book too.