As Snapchat Grows Up, It Must Hold On To Its Youth

It has been quite a week for Snapchat. Now, the founders will try to keep their heads down and out of the spotlight as they work to grow the product and company. Snapchat is all about discovery and quickly and intimately sharing brief moments with friends. Everything the company does moving forward will have to hold true to its mission. But this could evolve from simply one-on-one sharing.

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Torrential rains prompt flood warnings in Midwest

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Fargo Electric employees Jamie Strom, left, and Jordan Ege, foreground, work Wednesday to remove an electrical box from the Lindenwood Campground in Fargo, N.D., after the lower campsites were flooded by the Red River after heavy rains.

By Mary Wisniewski, Reuters

CHICAGO ? Heavy rains slammed Illinois and other Midwest states on Wednesday, triggering flash flood warnings and causing flight cancellations, commuter train delays and road closings.

Up to 5 inches of rain fell in some places, and the National Weather Service warned residents in the region to brace for more downpours and possibly severe thunderstorms Wednesday night.

The weather service issued multiple flash flood and flood warnings for counties in northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana and southeastern Wisconsin.

The storms, which threatened eastern Illinois, Indiana, and parts of Kentucky and Ohio, could include large hail, flash flooding and damaging winds of more than 60 mph, AccuWeather.com said.

At Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, one of the nation's busiest, 403 inbound and outbound flights had been canceled by Wednesday evening, according to the site FlightAware.com, which tracks delays and cancellations.

The heavy rain also caused hour-plus delays for other flights, according to the city's aviation department.

Metra, the Chicago area's commuter rail service, also reported delays of more than an hour on one of its lines. Part of one line north of the city was shut due to flooding.

Parts of some arterial roads were closed Wednesday morning due to flooding, according to the Illinois State Police.

In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker declared a state of emergency in seven southwestern counties after touring flood-damaged areas on Wednesday.

Several communities in northeastern Iowa on the Wapsipinicon River were also dealing with flooding. In Independence, volunteers filled sandbags to avert flooding and local officials closed several roads.

Grandstand and grounds events were canceled on Wednesday at the Linn County Fair due to possible flooding along the Wapsipinicon.

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Aaron Swartz has been posthumously inducted into the Internet Society's Hall Of Fame this year.

Aaron Swartz has been posthumously inducted into the Internet Society's Hall Of Fame this year. You can read a full list of new members here.

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Kris Jenner Shares the Meaning Behind North?s Name

"The way [Kim] explained it to me was that North means highest power and she says that North is their highest point together."

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Music training may help learning to read - Daniel Willingham

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Does music training improve other academic skills?

One sometimes hears the inclusion of music in the curriculum justified by the claim that it improves mathematics, or reading.

I?ve never cared for this justification because I think students should study music for its own sake, whether or not it boosts other skills. And it seems a chancy argument; if it turns out that music doesn?t help other academic work, does that mean it should be dumped?

Setting that argument aside, it?s certainly of interest from a cognitive point of view to know whether musical training has an impact on reading or math. There are a good number of correlational studies showing a positive effect, but few experimental data.

Now a new experimental study (Rautenberg, in press) shows that music training does have some positive effect for reading.

159 German 1st graders participated. The music training lasted 8 months and focused on three areas: rhythmic skills training, tonal/melodic skills training and auditory discrimination of timbre and sound intensity. There were two control groups: one received no training. The other was an active control receiving ?training in art.

The results were fairly robust, as shown in the graph of single word reading accuracy at the beginning and end of the year.

What?s behind the benefit? Language does have a musical aspect to it, referred to as prosody. And indeed, children?s ability to appreciate the rhythmic aspect of speech is correlated with the ease with which they learn to read, even when controlling for phonemic awareness. In German (and in English) certain letter combinations signal certain stress patterns, so there is a signal in the written language that children can learn. The ideas is that children are less likely to learn the association of certain written letter patterns and their corresponding rhythms in speech if they don?t perceive the rhythms of speech very well.

That?s the argument. More fine-grained analyses of the data partially support it.

The argument predicts that it?s rhythm that?s important, not tonality, and the data do show significant correlations of reading with ability in the former, but not the latter.

The argument further predicts that the training ought to reduce a particular type of error: one in which a child reads the phonetic sounds correctly but gets the rhythm wrong; they segment the word into syllables incorrectly, or they accent the wrong syllable. This prediction was not supported.

All in all, this study seems to be an important addition--although certainly not a conclusive one--to the argument that some types of music training aids children's learning to read, at least in certain languages.

Reference
Rautenberg, I. (in press). The effects of musical training on the decoding skills of German-speaking primary school children. Journal of Research in Reading.

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