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Copyright protection is meant to last only a “period of time—shorter than the period of time when it’s utterly useless to be freely used by the public for whatever value possible,” Zittrain said...
...staggering array of relatively useless trivia lies underneath the bottle caps of Orange Mango, Kiwi Berry and all of the more than two dozen flavors of gourmet juices produced by the company. The edifying tidbits are methodically chosen at the Nantucket Nectars headquarters in the brick building on Dunster Street where around 40 of the company’s 100 employees are based...
Unfortunately, current grading practices fail miserably at providing meaningful feedback on student work, and as a result, grades as pedagogical tools are ineffective at best and useless at worst. Because 86 percent of grades were B or better last year, professors and TFs were effectively limited to four grades—B, B-plus, A-minus and A—when evaluating all but the weakest student work. Not only are there too few grades to be precise, but worse yet, the meaning of those grades is utterly unclear...
...matter how many grades instructors have at their disposal, those grades are useless to students if no one agrees on their meaning. Individual TFs, professors and departments are forced to guess at the proper meaning of inflated grades. One TF’s A-minus may be another TF’s A or B-plus. In lieu of clear standards across the Faculty and even across TFs in the same course, interpreting a grade can be as challenging as earning it in the first place...
...critical questions about the precise sequence of events as the plane began to break apart, and exactly how and when the tail section separated from the body of the plane. This is the second video record the board has obtained of the crash, but the first one was virtually useless because the plane could be seen only as a tiny speck...