Friday, December 13, 2013

What In the World?!


What should the title of this map be?  Make a key.

Check your answer here.


What kind of bias is evident in this data?  Do you agree or disagree with the conclusions?  Why?


Thursday, December 12, 2013

Obama Selfie


A news photographer captured the president sitting with the prime ministers of Great Britain and Denmark. He has a cellphone in his hand. The three of them are grinning.


First lady Michelle Obama sits off to the side, somber, dignified, as the world remembers Mandela. Yet next to her like some goofy adolescent who hasn't yet been taught how to behave properly at a memorial service — her husband — is snapping a memorial to himself.


President Selfie.


Is this a pattern developing for the President?


Are we lucky he wasn't making a Duck Face? Or worse?


When is a Selfie not just inappropriate; its dangerous?!

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Keep It Classy ND



Television viewers in Bismarck, N.D., were treated to some real class this weekend when none other than the great Ron Burgundy read them the news.

Actor and comedian Will Ferrell reprised his "Anchorman" role for KXMB's Saturday night news broadcast. The former "Saturday Night Live" star is promoting "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues," a sequel to the 2004 film.

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How good of a job did he do?

Why Was it hard to take him seriously?

What essential skills do you need to report the TV news?

Monday, December 2, 2013

Katy Perry: Bio Hazard



Invasive species here in America are diverse, from all different continents, but they have one thing in common: people put them here. Whether unintentionally on shipments from Asia or Africa, or former pets released into the wild, these animals (and one plant) have turned America into their predator-free playground.

We've gathered up only nine invasive species in this slideshow, but there are literally hundreds more pest, plant, and animal immigrants out there.