BP 3/31

BP 3/31: Pedestrian Deaths Spiked Last Year

How many people died last year being hit by cars?
Why is this behavior happening?
What do other researchers believe?
What is the solution to this?
What percentage of pedestrians were intoxicated?
Where were the highest fatalities?
Don't text and drive...

BP 3/30

BP 3/30: 9 Podcasts to Make you Smarter in 30 minutes or less

Wanted to give you this blog in case you are looking for a new podcast to submit by tomorrow.  This is your chance.

What is Planet Money about?
What is Hard Pass about?
What is 99% invisible about?
Who is the Allusionst for?
What's the Daily?
What's Hidden Brain for?
What is the Memory Place for?
What does Code Breaker do?
What is Why oh Why?

BP 3/29

BP 3/29: Facebook Pivots into Stories

What does Facebook now have?
Where did they steal this from?
What does stories do to the news feed?
What can Facebook do that Snapchat can't?
What does facebook want to do with Camera and stories?
What is Stories?
What is Camera?
What's missing from Camera?
What is Facebook Direct?
What's the new news feed like?

BP 3/28

BP 3/28 - Net Neutrality Made Easy

What are utilities?
What types of organizations aren't neutral?
What do utilities not have?
What has the history of the internet been?
What can the new rules of the internet do?
What does net neutrality mean?
What will companies compete on?
Should the internet remain neutral?
What do you think about this video?

BP 3/27

Blog Post 3/27: Supreme Court Printer Cartidge Case

What's the name of the case?
What's the issue in front of the court?
What does Lexmark offer customers?
What does Lexmark believe?
What is patent exhaustion?
What can this case lead to?
What do you think about this argument, should manufacturers be able to restrict what you can do with a product once it's bought?  Why or Why not?

BP 3/24

BP 3/24 Senate Votes to Undo Internet Privacy Rules

What would the legislation have done?
How did Senators vote?
What would the regulations have required companies to do?
What did companies attack the rules as?
What does undoing the regulations do?
What do you think about this rule?
Can people have privacy from IPs?

BP 3/23

BP 3/23 Does Alexa Have Free Speech Rights?

What does the Echo do?
What was Amazon's response to the court order?
What is Alexa a form of?
What does Amazon claim?
What is autonomy theory?
What has the Supreme Court given free speech protection to?
What does covering AI  and free speech teach us about?

BP 3/22

BP 3/22 Google is Finally Doing Something about Racist Videos on Youtube

What will google allow advertisers to do?
Where will these changes happen?
Why is Google doing this?
Why are these changes significant?
Why is Google Making these changes?
What do you think about this?

BP 3/21

BP 3/21 Honors System Adopted for MHS

When will the new system go into effect?

How any different recognitions are there?

Which class will this be enacted for?

How will speakers be determined?

What do you think about the change?

How many homes are being built in Mooresville?

Where will these students go to school?

Do you think Mooresville needs to build other schools? Why or Why not?

BP 3/20

BP 3/20 The End of the Perfect Banana

Hey, trust me on this article... It's interesting even though it's long.

Where did Banana's come from in the 1950s?
What did United Banana figure out?  What does this mean for bananas?
What happened to the coffee in Sri Lanka?
What happened to the banana's?
How did the new banana sell in the US?
What is happening to banana's today?
What is the new name of the United Fruit Company?
What has happened to us in grocery stores?
What has every crop in history done?

BP 3/17

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

BP 3/17: Surface Book 2 is Regular Notebook?

Full disclosure, if I had to buy a PC, I'd buy one of these guys...

What is Microsoft cutting in the new Surface?
What has Microsoft expanded its Surface line too?
What was the Surface Book?
What did it have built into the computer?
What was the problem with it?