Saturday's SAT

Get ready, get set, pick up your pencils. Meet the New SAT. Not the same as the old one. Bid adieu to abstruse SAT vocabulary words of wisdom.

The College Board has launched a revamped SAT test today, with promises to strengthen the test’s predictive validity and more closely reflect the skills that college students really need.

Here are a few of the changes:

They're back to a top score of 1600, there's no penalty for wrong answers and you get more time for each section.

While many of the updates may actually make sense, others have left experts scratching their heads.

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US Murder Capital

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The Uniform Crime Reporting Program has been the starting place for law enforcement executives, students of criminal justice, researchers, members of the media, and the public at large seeking information on crime in the nation. The program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet the need for reliable uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics.

SEX IS BEST

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Do you remember the last time you made love, or had sex? For most of us to recall events, facts or processes, we must commit them to memory. The process of forming a memory involves encoding, storing, retaining and subsequently recalling information and past experiences.

50 year old adults who are more sexually active have better memory and cognitive skills than people who get busy less often, a new UK study suggests.

Id, Ego and Super-ego Trumped

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Freud said our personality, also refereed to as the human psyche has more than one aspect and is structured into three parts The id, the ego and the superego, which are all developing at different stages in our lives.

These are systems, not parts of the brain, or in any way physical, or having to do with the size of any other body parts.

Donald Trump Really Doesn’t Want Me to Tell You This, But … http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/donald-trump-mark-bowden-playboy… via @VanityFair

Here's the truth about Donald Trump's narcissism http://ti.me/1DL4jWX via @TIMEIdeas

GOP Debate Losers

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Following the latest disgusting debate, it is clear to all decent flag waiving folks that nobody won and there was no shortage of losers. Too many lies and no substance in most cases.

AP FACT CHECK: Claims from the GOP debate http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89ae8247abe8493fae24405546e9a1aa/Articl…

CNN's Reality Check Team inspects the claims at Republican debate @CNNPolitics http://cnn.it/1L6TzWK

Democracy Inaction

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Political debates of camp pain 2016 are taking on meaner, uglier tones. Future generations will condemn us for inaction, wonder how we got here and why this was allowed to continue?

Everything You Need to Know About Tonight's Fox News GOP Debate http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/03/02/how-watch-fox-news-gop-debate-det…

Viewer's Guide: GOP debate about Trump vs. everyone else
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GOP ALert

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Mitt Romney says the state of the 2016 race needs to be addressed, amid rising panic by Republican leaders that Donald Trump could win the nomination.

Mitt Romney, a recent critic of Trump, to speak Thursday on 2016 race http://usat.ly/1oZlkqA via @usatoday

Mitt Romney to address the 2016 presidential campaign Thursday http://wpo.st/a3wH1

Romney to deliver major speech on 2016 race | Fox News | http://fxn.ws/1T8m0Gg

SUPERTUESDAY

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Today is bigger than Superbowl, because it will effect our lives as the most important day so far in the camp pain 2016 race for the presidency.

Super Tuesday is the day when twelve states hold contests between the two parties. However, there is no state that is more important than Texas for both sides.

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