links: teachers

* What if we prepared teachers the same way we prepare doctors? Teacher residency, apprenticeships, rather than throwing first years into the deep end.
* Melting glaciers may increase vulcanism, as hot rocks under lower pressure melt
* Toxic fungus spreading across west coast
* Trust hormone
* US Army worried about peak oil by 2015.
* GOP head Steele acknowledges the Southern Strategy
* Peroxide life on Mars?
* Library of Congress archiving Tweets
* Humanities and private schools have more grade inflation.
* Energy Star fraud. :( Need more inspectors.
* Jon Stewart's fact-checking of Fox News
* Humanity entry in endangered species database
* Earthquakes this year not above average, just unlucky in location.
* Joss Whedon's commentary on "The Body"

* France's model imam. The myth of Eurabia; growth isn't that high, and Muslims aren't unified. Also. European Muslims are loyal to their new countries.

* What babies know, cognitive science of children
* Does the Tea Party hate liberals more than they love liberty? Signs point to yes. "Small government" types don't worry about "enhanced interrogation" or warrantless wiretaps.
* Chimp responses to death