On the miracle of the Coleman-Glashow and other baryon mass formulas

Due to a new measurement of the Xi(0) mass,the Coleman-Glashow formula for the baryon octet e.m. masses (derived using unbroken SU(3) is satisfied to an extraordinary level of precision.The same unexpected precision exists for the Gell-Mann Okubo formula and for its octet-decuplet extension (G.Morpurgo,Phys.Rev.Lett. 68(1992)139).We show that the old question "why do they work so well?" is now answered by the general parameterization method.Comment: 12 pages,Late

Survey of some pupil, parent, and teacher factors affected by the single session day in the Malden elementary schools.

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save to DISC: Documenting Innovation in Music Learning

The paper discusses an approach to determining the worth and value of innovation in music education and measuring it’s capacity for meaning and engagement. It also aims to identify new examples of innovation across a broad range of music learning contexts and establish a rigorous digital process for documenting, evaluating and distributing innovative cases and resources for present and future contexts. It discusses specifically a pilot project that seeks to document innovation in sound curriculum (DISC). save to DISC is an exploratory study in an Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) project that proposes to establish flexible and effective procedures for the sourcing, evaluating, refereeing, editing, producing, validating, storing, publishing, and distributing of a wide range of media and content types. It involves documenting innovative and successful practice in music education, creating and evaluating programs in difficult/challenging school contexts and commissioning and encouraging the production of resource materials for 21 st century contexts

South Asian Visual Culture: From Traditional Arts to Mediums of Modernity

South Asia is home to myriad expressive traditions spanning from classical sculpture and painting to popular illustration and film. While medium is important, especially in shaping the meaning of a cultural expression, this exhibit uses visual culture as a way of looking at contrasting media to draw attention to commonalities across media. This exhibit highlights items from the UT Libraries to bring attention to both the impressive array of items available here while also gesturing to the wide range of interconnected media forms prevalent in South Asia today.UT Librarie

Leading Lady: Sallie Mae and the Origins of Today's Student Loan Controversy

Over the past 40 years, the student loan industry has evolved from a relatively small, government-sponsored program into an $85 billion a year industry with thousands of lenders and industry-related companies. But, in recent months, the industry -- and its biggest player Sallie Mae -- have been at the center of controversy and calls for reform

Finding the GEMSS in Schools.

Are you the parent of a child who has a genetic condition such as Down syndrome, Fragile X, or Marfan syndrome? Have you searched for a base of knowledge that is comprehensive and reliable? Do you spend energy wondering HOW your child should be included in typical school programs, not questioning IF he/she should be included? You may be surprised to know that there is a new website receiving national and international attention! It is called GEMSS – Genetics Education materials for School Success www.gemssforschools.or

Post-structuralism, Complexity and Poetics.

Post-structuralism and complexity are plural and diverse modes of thought that share a common subscription to the �anteriority of radical relationality�. They nonetheless subscribe to a different ethic of life because they address the anteriority of radical relationality in different ways. Complexity remains strategic in its bid to become a power-knowledge of the laws of becoming. It derives that strategic ethic from its scientific interest in the implicate order of non-linearity that is said to subvert Newtonian science. Post-structuralism is poetic. It derives its poetic ethic from Heidegger and from the re-working of orphic and tragic sensibilities to radical relationality with the radically non-relational. Observing that all poetry is complexity avant la lettre, the paper illustrates these points with the Odyssey and concludes that while complexity is ultimately concerned with fitness, post-structuralism is pre-occupied with justice

The Economics of Morality

Altruism is embedded in our biology and in our culture. We offer our bus seats to the disabled and elderly, give directions to disoriented tourists, and donate a portion of our income charity. Yet for all the good it does, there are deep problems with altruism as it is practiced today. Nearly all of us, when asked, will say that we care about practicing altruism in a way that effectively improves the lives of others. Almost none of us, when asked, can honestly say that we have made a serious effort to ensure that we are practicing altruism in a way that effectively improves the lives of others. Disparities like these are indicative of flaws in our cognitive architecture - biases which ensure that the traditional practice of altruism is incongruous with our own values. This disconnect between our values and our actions causes our altruistic efforts to help fewer people to a lesser extent than they otherwise could. I argue that traditional altruism is in need of reformation and defend a social and philosophical movement aimed at achieving this reformation known as effective altruism. The reason effective altruism is such a promising alternative to traditional altruism is its application of economic thinking to the realm of altruism and morality. An economist’s mentality is, I suggest, a necessary instrument for bridging the gap between our values and our actions, allowing us to practice altruism in a way that more effectively improves the lives of others