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5 Phrases An Elementary School Teacher Uses To Calm Whining Almost Instantly Without Raising Her Voice

5 Phrases An Elementary School Teacher Uses To Calm Whining Almost Instantly Without Raising Her Voice

Published by Jenni Sidey

Parents know the familiar cadence and tone of a child begging for something, even after a parent says “no,” because every parent has had to deal with whining and pleading that becomes a tantrum in their lives. But not every parent realizes you can stop your child’s whining, and it’s not even that hard.  I always feel bad for the parents who give in to whining and begging. They don’t realize they’re setting themselves up for a lifetime of tantrums and attempted manipulations by their little sweeties. Sometimes I’m even tempted to step in and help.  For instance, I was in the grocery store last week, listening to a multitude of beeps from scanners, when a new sound caught my ear. It was a kid, a preschooler, whining and begging for one of those baby bottle suckers with the sugar inside. She wanted the cherry flavor. “Mommy, can I have this?” the little girl asked. “No, honey,” the mother smiled. “But mom, I don’t have one.” “We have plenty of sweets at home,” the mom reminded. …

U.S. target list may have mistaken Iranian elementary school as military site

U.S. target list may have mistaken Iranian elementary school as military site

Published by Sam Flores

The Iranian elementary school building where scores of children were killed as the U.S. and Israel began their massive aerial campaign was on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site, multiple people familiar with the strike told The Washington Post. The deadly attack occurred in the first few hours of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran — just as parents were hurrying to the two-story schoolhouse to take their kids home to safety — and killed at least 175 people, many of them children, according to Iranian state media. Source link

US Military Investigating Whether AI Was Involved in Bombing Elementary School in Iran

US Military Investigating Whether AI Was Involved in Bombing Elementary School in Iran

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Commercial satellite imagery captured last week shows the eerie devastation following the bombing of an Iranian elementary school. At least 175 people, including a large number of young schoolgirls, were killed in the attack. Haunting drone footage showed excavators digging dozens of graves for the victims. The airstrike, allegedly part of an offensive targeting an Iranian military complex nearby, provided a grotesque example of the horrors unfolding since the beginning of the US-Israel war on Iran late last month. The massacre also raised a grim technological question. It had already been reported that the US military has been using Anthropic’s Claude to select targets during the attacks on Iran — and, strikingly, the Pentagon refused to confirm or deny whether AI had any role in the school’s bombing when Futurism asked. At first, neither the US nor Israel wanted to take blame for the carnage. US president Donald Trump desperately tried to steer clear as well, claiming that …

Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target

Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In the aftermath of airstrikes that leveled a school and claimed the lives of 165 Iranian elementary students and staff, the Pentagon has refused to say whether the attack was suggested by an AI system. The grotesque possibility isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds. According to bombshell reporting by the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon used Anthropic’s Claude AI model in planning military strikes on Iran over the weekend — and is likely still using it as the Trump administration’s attacks carry on. In the opening salvo, either the US or Israel — though available information points to the former — obliterated the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school, located in the South-Iranian city of Minab. Most of the people killed in the strike, Al Jazeera reports, were elementary students aged between seven and 12. At least 95 other people were injured in the attack. Making matters even more grim is reporting from Middle East Eye that Shajareh Tayyebeh was …

Elementary school in Tehran hit, Iran’s foreign ministry says | News

Elementary school in Tehran hit, Iran’s foreign ministry says | News

Published by Sam Flores

Footage shared by Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman purportedly shows destruction in Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran. Listen to this article | 3 mins info Published On 6 Mar 20266 Mar 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share plus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo An elementary school in the Iranian capital Tehran’s Niloufar Square has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei. Baghaei on Friday shared a video on X, purportedly showing Shahid Hamedani School with students before and after the attack, without elaborating on the circumstances or the number of casualties. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list If confirmed, this would be the fourth school hit in Iran since the war erupted. The Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in southern city of Minab, was the first to be hit on Saturday, the first day of US and Israeli attacks against the country. The attack killed 160 children and five staff, according to UN experts. Some websites and social media accounts linked to Israel claimed the site …

Site of Elementary School Was Sprayed With Radioactive Fracking Waste, Worker Warns

Site of Elementary School Was Sprayed With Radioactive Fracking Waste, Worker Warns

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Nearly 500 elementary school children in Texas play on fields where a whistleblower says he once spread tons of radioactive fracking waste — a noxious hell-brew he believes melted the bones in his own jaw. Lee Oldham is a 52-year-old former waste disposal worker from Cleburne, Texas, on the southern outskirts of Dallas-Fort Worth. In an interview with Texas-based publication the Barbed Wire, Oldham detailed how he went from waste handler to corporate whistleblower, and the horrifying apathy of state politicians that led him there. Since the fracking boom of the 2000s, Oldham made his living dumping drilling mud and contaminated fracking dirt into open fields across North Texas. Though the Texas state oil and gas regulator technically forbade companies from dumping their sludge wherever they pleased, a 2016 audit found the regulator offered “little deterrent effect” to prevent it. Instead of disposing of the fracking sludge the official way — which involved extra paperwork, expensive land designations, and tons of extra man-hours — Oldham’s company, …

Waymo Under Investigation After Crashing Into Child Outside Elementary School

Waymo Under Investigation After Crashing Into Child Outside Elementary School

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Sara Diggins / The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images A Waymo Robotaxi struck and injured a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California, the company admitted in a recent announcement, prompting an investigation by federal regulators. The incident, which took place on January 23, occurred after the child “suddenly entered the roadway from behind a tall SUV, moving directly in our vehicle’s path,” Waymo claimed. The robotaxi “immediately detected” the pedestrian and “braked hard,” slowing down from 17 miles per hour to under 6 miles per hour, before colliding with the child. “Following contact, the pedestrian stood up immediately, walked to the sidewalk, and we called 911,” the company claimed. “The vehicle remained stopped, moved to the side of the road, and stayed there until law enforcement cleared the vehicle to leave the scene.” That same day, Waymo says it reached out to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has now opened an investigation into the autonomous vehicle company. In its report to the regulator, Waymo …

Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir

Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir

Published by José Betancourt

?si=euaFB6jMJ_TPxRmf Down in Austin, Texas, music teacher Gavin Tabone leads the Bar­ton Hills Choir, made up of 3rd- through 6th-grade stu­dents. Backed by pro­fes­sion­al musi­cians, the choir per­forms a wide-rang­ing mix of music, from clas­sic pop and rock to indie songs by artists like Wilco, Muse, The Flam­ing Lips, and espe­cial­ly the Grate­ful Dead. Above and below, you can find per­for­mances of such Dead clas­sics as “Rip­ple,” “Box of Rain” and “Going Down the Road Feel­ing Bad” → “I Know You Rid­er.” And if you head to their YouTube chan­nel, you can find ver­sions of “Cas­sidy,” “Touch of Grey,” “Scar­let Bego­nias,” “Broke­down Palace,” and more. With the pass­ing of Bob Weir this week­end, it seems like a fit­ting time to high­light these per­for­mances. Weir first joined the Dead when only a teenag­er, still basi­cal­ly a kid him­self, and then con­tin­ued the jour­ney for the next 60 years, intro­duc­ing the Dead­’s song­book to suc­ces­sive gen­er­a­tions of fans. In recent years, he talked about the Dead song­book endur­ing for the next 200 to 300 years, much as Beethoven …

Where elementary particle physics meets quantum science and technology

Where elementary particle physics meets quantum science and technology

Published by skeptic

At the intersection of quantum science and high-energy particle physics, advancements in the development and testing of the Superconducting Microwire Single-Photon Detector (SMSPD) could enhance detection capabilities for high-energy particles in particle physics experiments. The quest to understand the fundamental constituents of the Universe – elementary particle physics and high-energy particle physics – is reaching a new frontier, driven by transformative advances in quantum science and technology (QST). This confluence of fields is creating unprecedented opportunities, particularly in instrumentation, detector design, and the search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Superconducting sensors (SNSPDs) optimised for charged particle detection will dramatically increase the capabilities for performing quantum tomography at colliders, allowing detailed detection of quantum entanglement and offering unique discovery potential for dark sector particles. The superconducting microwire single-photon detector, or SMSPD, – the small dark purple region – can precisely detect single particles at a time. The detectors were designed and fabricated at JPL and commissioned at the INQNET-Caltech labs Intersections of QIS and high-energy physics The synergy between QST and HEP extends across …