“Growing up poor isn’t merely hard on kids. It might also be bad for their brains. A long-term study of cognitive development in lower- and middle-class students found strong links between childhood poverty, physiological stress and adult memory. The findings support a neurobiological hypothesis for why impoverished children consistently fare worse than their middle-class counterparts in school, and eventually in life.”
Tag: 03.30.09
Go To Graduate School In Twittering!
“A university is to offer a master’s degree teaching students about social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Bebo. The £4,400 MA in Social Media will also explain how to set up blogs and publish podcasts. The one-year course at Birmingham City University will consider social networking sites as communications and marketing tools.”
Critic Nicholas de Jongh To Leave London Evening Standard
After 17 years at the paper, “de Jongh said he had decided to step down to spend more time writing. He is working on a film version of his West End play, Plague Over England… and is also writing a book.”
Web Video Series Now Have Their Own Awards
“As if we needed any further proof that online Web series were finally maturing into a viable entertainment alternative, we have the first Streamys awards show, held Saturday night in the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles. All the hallmarks of Emmys were there – the red carpet, the awkwardly scripted presenter banter, the clip montages.” The big winner was cult fave Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
Timed For Centenary, A Titanic Museum?
“A new museum charting the story of the Titanic could be built ahead of the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The £28m project in Southampton, from where the liner set sail in 1912 on her maiden voyage, is set to feature a climb-aboard replica of the ship.”
Survey: Across The Board, Fundraising Took A Hit In 2008
“Forty-six percent of nonprofit organizations raised more money last year compared with 2007, according to preliminary findings of an annual survey, released … today by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Reflecting the toll exacted by the economic downturn, the percentage of fund raisers whose institutions raised more money last year was a new low in the eight years the survey has been conducted.”
Are Monthly Gifts A Good Match For Smaller Nonprofits?
“Large national and international charities such as Greenpeace and Save the Children are often held up as examples of how to set up monthly credit- or debit-card giving programs. But can such programs also work for smaller groups?”
Too Slow For A Wikipedia World, Encarta Bites The Dust
“Microsoft delivered the coup de grâce Monday to its dying Encarta encyclopedia, acknowledging what everyone else realized long ago: it just couldn’t compete with Wikipedia, a free, collaborative project that has become the leading encyclopedia on the Web.”
Jazz Museum, Soul Cinema May Take Root At Harlem Site
“Two nonprofit arts groups, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and ImageNation, which supports independent cinema and progressive music, were selected on Monday to be part of the proposed Mart 125 redevelopment project, which would transform a centrally located but presently abandoned eyesore on Harlem’s main commercial thoroughfare into a mixed-use space.” But first the project must woo developers.
Eliot To Orwell: Animal Farm Too Trotskyite To Publish
“[W]hen George Orwell sent Animal Farm to TS Eliot for consideration, the poet – then a director of Faber and Faber – rejected it as ‘unconvincing’. In a letter from 1944 explaining why he would not be publishing the work, Eliot told Orwell that he was not persuaded by the ‘Trotskyite’ politics which underpin the narrative. To publish such an anti-Russian novel would jar in the contemporary political climate, explained the poet.”