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Paying kids to read books. >> thats what they did in dallas, read a book, finish a quiz on it, earnings $2. sounds simple. well, dallas, it seems, if this is what youre seeking may have had better results. >> reading comprehension scores on standardized tests. >> went up. >> went up. thats what-- >> and depends what you seek. do you seek standardized tests which implies they retain this knowledge. >> thats what the final thing was, they retained it even after the rewards stopped because again, i...

Class and a denying of this kids educational opportunity. they called him everything upped the book, they called him fat pig, fagot, queer, threw him into lockers, urinated on his clothes. a 7th grade girl slapped him and a teacher says in front of the class whats it like to be slapped by a girl. this school deserved what they got, but its a wakeup call to schools across the country. its not enough to have an anti-bullying policy youve got to follow through and you cant be indifferent. >> here i...

The volcano erupts giant clouds of ash dark in the atmosphere sulfur rich particles are spewed up to great heights where they reflect incoming sunlight. that can cool down the atmosphere by as much as half of a degree celsius. some scientists want to imitate this natural phenomenon and counter global warming with sulfur aerosols. thinking of when you think its technically feasible to inject s o two into the stratosphere pulling. in that layer of the atmosphere ten to fifty kilometers above groun...

Everybody with mental illness should not have firearms. that sounds simple. what do you with more than 400,000 iraq and afghanistan vets who have received a diagnosis of ptsd. thats a mental disorder. should they lose their rights to gun ownership because they were injured by war? all of a sudden its not so simple. or how about domestic abusers? nobody thinks they should have guns. weave dont, obviously. what if they havent been convicted of anything yet? can you strip rights from somebody who i...

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Amazon has been huge for our business. >> jeff hayden is chief financial officer for nut pods and hes also madelines husband. after a long career in investment banking, hes well suited to monitoring the companys bottom line. >> a lot of our kick starter backers loved the product, went on amazon and wrote great reviews. that sort of launched us a little bit on amazon. so we did $10,000 in amazon sales our first month. >> the companys success on amazon has not gone unnoticed. >> how did you figure...

About who we were, what we were trying to do and what our products were. >> oh, boy. amazon has been huge for our business. >> jeff hayden is chief financial officer for net pods and hes also madelyns husband. after a long career in investment banking, hes well suited to monitoring the companys bottom line. >> a lot of our kick starter backers loved the product and went on amazon and wrote great reviews. that launched us on amazon. we did $10,000 in amazon sales our first month. >> the companys ...

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