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MIT Students Develop Liquid Fuel for Electric Cars
One (of many) complaints against electric cars is that they take too long to “fill up” with electrons. But a group of MIT students seems to have developed a semi-solid electron-laden “fuel” that could completely how we power EV’s.


Wis. Union Protesters Disrupt Special Olympics Ceremony


Education officials break down Stockton man's door
STOCKTON, CA - Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
http://www.news10.net/news/article/141072/2/Dept-of-Education-breaks-down-Stockton-mans-door
Dept. of Education SWAT Raid Update: Not for a Student Loan, DoE Says


Kids Doing the Unions’ Lobbying Dirty Work
by  Kyle Olson
There’s a great scene in Sudden Impact, the second Dirty Harry film, in which Harry Callahan “handles” all the criminals.  But one bad guy, in the climax of the scene, decides to use a waitress as a human shield.


U.N. Agreement Should Have All Gun Owners Up In Arms
It may not come as surprising news to many of you that the United Nations doesn’t approve of our Second Amendment. Not one bit. And they very much hope to do something about it with help from some powerful American friends.


Two Ultraheavy Elements Added to Periodic Table
By Mark Brown, Wired UK
A committee of international chemists and physicists has officially added two new elements to the periodic table: the ultraweighty elements 114 and 116.


How Low Can Higher Ed Go?
We can't reverse the spiral unless we strike at the causes of decline.
by Dan Miller
This article by Clayton Cramer, published by Pajamas Media on May 24, reveals some of higher education’s less obvious, more basic, and therefore more important problems. The situation is rather dire: the products of our education system administer, teach, vote, and otherwise direct the course the country is to take. The social harm inherent in that process is set to continue at an accelerating pace.


Now comes the 'Lower Education Bubble?'
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
In recent months, I've written in these pages about a "higher education bubble" - the notion that America is spending more than it can afford on higher education, driven by the kind of cheap credit (and mass infatuation) that fueled the housing bubble.

A Lost Generation in the Making?
Peter Wehner
Ron Brownstein has a fascinating column in National Journal, in which writes, “It’s hard to say this spring whether it’s more difficult for the class of 2011 to enter the labor force or for the class of 1967 to leave it.”


Infantilizing the Culture
Our students may have stopped working, but they have not stopped playing.


How a Teachers’ Rally Made Me Anti-Education
by Zombie
I write this essay with a heavy heart.
I’ve always considered myself an ardent advocate for education. But a recent rally staged by teachers and students in favor of school funding forced me to reluctantly acknowledge an awful truth:
We have to destroy education in order to save it.
Let me explain how I came to this miserable conclusion.