Things kids should be taught in schools

5 Things all kids should be taught in schools:
* Personal Finance
* Communicating Effectively
* Social Skills
* Sales
* Time Management
Read the linked blog for exact details on what exactly each one of those mean. Individually, kids in high schools should be able to skip these if they can prove they don't need these things. Also, these classes need to be engaging in order to work. The classes are going to stink for the most part, I know I hated sitting through talks that explain these post high school, but they're necessary for kids. A graduating on average doesn't have a clue how to communicate his idea effectively the first time, nor does he know what a 401k is. If kids could figure most of this stuff out, the government would have less need to regulate its own masses.

Interpretting Body language!
Here's an interesting interview as well.
Here's some other interesting information. Whenever a person recognizes another person, they'll lift their eyebrows momentarily and involuntarily at the person they recognize. Also, men and women have different comfort zones than each other. A woman is likelier to look at the person next to them the closer they are (anything outside of 6 feet and women in general feel uncomfortable) while men will avoid looking at each other until they're farther than 6 and a half feet from each other. Something else random too: Women are comfortable with speaking at the same time, without interrupting each other. Men, on the other hand, don't feel comfortable speaking at the same time, and one will "take the floor" while the other hushes if both speak up at the same time. This is probably why men get angsty at women :-p

In other news, it turns out anti-squirrel bird feeders are really advanced. Check out this one that takes the squirrel for a loop.

This squirrel is really brave.