Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-16

The recent issues with police use of force in a variety of locations have raised new issues related to body cameras for force across the country. While the general view from police officers seems to be against them, the studies linked below seem to suggest they may be helpful. I start to wonder if the…

I love football, college a little more than the NFL, but during the fall on most Sunday afternoons you will find me watching football.  However, this article makes you think about the impact to the individual players.  What about the physical impact to college players that never recieve the financial benefits of playing in the…

Maybe you wont become a best selling author, but it is pretty amazing that you can publish a book on your own with the technology available today.  Here is an NPR story about an author going outside the normal process Barry Eisler’s ‘Detachment’ From ‘Legacy’ Publishing : NPR. Plus we have a friend, Jen Tucker who published her…

You may not know the “Trinity Study” but it helped bring together the idea of the 4% withdrawal rate for retirement, but this article details some of the limitations to better understand how to use it. Find out all there is to know about the famous Trinity Study, the origin of the 4% Rule that…

I am not sure how many times I said this to myself, but I used it as an excuse in school lots of times.   When a friend posted the link below on Facebook, I was very interested to find out what the research showed. There’s one key difference between kids who excel at math…