The tool combines several assessment techniques, said Whitmer. These include the Flesch-Kincaid readability index, which measures the complexity of the students’ language by counting the number of syllables and number of words per sentence. The type-token ratio, which looks at how many times words are repeated, is also used. In addition, a “critical-thinking coefficient,” which “classifies words according to the degree of critical thinking represented” is used, as is a standard word count, said Whitmer. A weighted formula is then used to determine a grade, which faculty must review and approve before submitting.

But why the praying? The wall is of course just an enormous random number generator. But couldn’t the agnostic among us say that that is also exactly what, from a certain point of view, God is? Is the wall a merciful wall? Is the wall an awesome wall? Is the wall a vengeful wall?

According to the stable’s Web site, it specializes in Equine Facilitated Learning, a system that teaches “non-verbal leadership and interpersonal communication skills through non-predatory horse-inspired wisdom.”

Invisible chairs, swims to Baltimore, clamping-on, swirlees, water bottles held at arms length, around the world tours, Good Night Jane Fonda calls, running deck to deck/outside the company area, ping pong and Midshipmen grenades or other acts that require undue physical or emotional stress are strictly prohibited.

In spike sorting the restaurant is a single recording, each table is a neuron, and each customer is an action potential waveform.

He was nineteen years old, which meant that everything he said made sense and sounded good.

What do garlic and onions have in common with gunpowder? A lot. They’re incendiary. They can do harm and they delight. Sulfur is central to their powers.

I have read in a good medical work that a nun, in a very large convent in France, began to meow like a cat; shortly afterwards other nuns also meowed. At last all the nuns meowed together every day at a certain time for several hours together.

I use prescription toothpaste that is 1% flouride (vs .1% in commercial toothpastes) which contributes to mineral-rich saliva… I’m not sure its possible under average toothbrushing circumstances.

“The ironic thing about Literal Nazis is that they have weaponized taking things literally,” BuzzFeed writer Katie Notopoulos wrote recently.