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Hunting and habitat loss threaten more than 20% of the world's mammals with extinction, according to a new report issued by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The survey, which culled data gathered by more than 1,700 scientists over five years, also warned that further study could reveal the proportion of imperiled mammals to be as high as 36%. Of the 1,141 mammal species at risk, nearly 200 are listed as critically endangered...
...traits. Previously administered only in the lab but now available online (at implicit.harvard.edu) the IAT asks people to pair pictures of white or black faces with positive words like joy, love, peace and happy or negative ones like agony, evil, hurt and failure. Speed is everything, since the survey tests automatic associations. When respondents are told to link the desirable traits to whites and the undesirable ones to blacks, their fingers fairly fly on the keys. When the task is switched, with whites being labeled failures and blacks called glorious, fingers slow considerably, a sure sign the brain is struggling...
...world mythology class to supplement the current offerings.“We don’t really have a course in Greek and Roman mythology, especially for freshman who read those stories as children,” Tatar said.The world mythology class would be a broader year-long survey taught on a rotating basis by a set of colleagues specializing in myths from different parts of the world.Its introduction would be an appropriate one for this imaginative community.“Our students are a mirror image of our faculty,” Mitchell said. “They basically...
...nation's public school system. In 1993, just over 10% of primary-school age village children were enrolled in private schools. By 2006, the figure had nearly doubled. A fifth of students between the ages of 6 and 7 cannot recognize letters and read words, according to an annual survey by Pratham, a Mumbai-based NGO that tracks children's literacy across India in order to assess the efficiency of rural and government school education. Though Pratham's 2007 figures show an improvement, the figures are still grim - and don't bode well for a nation, half of whose...
...increase of 20% over last year. Programs like the mid-day meal scheme and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, which aims to get all children between 6 and 14 into school, have been successful in getting over 95% children into primary education, but dropout rates remain high. According to a government survey for the 2005-06 academic year, over 70% of 6-10 year-olds were attending primary school, but just over half of 11-17 year-olds made it to higher classes. Increasingly embarrassed by the irony of a third of the country's population being illiterate at a time...