A Nuclear Iran: Get used to it

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was “deeply concerned … that the Iranian government did not meet the deadline set by the Security Council.” The deadline passed on Wednesday.

“I urge again that the Iranian government should fully comply with the Security Council as soon as possible,” he told reporters in Vienna, saying Iran’s nuclear activities had “great implications for peace and security.”

Iran’s defiant nature on the subject of its nuclear progress has created a clash of wills which the Islamic Republic seems to be winning.

Intelligence and Learning in the classroom

What does it mean when people say a person is intelligent? What makes one person more intelligent than another? Is it because a person can quote Shakespeare, or add ridiculously large numbers in his head? Is she a great communicator with an arsenal of vocabulary words at her disposal?

Researchers have not provided simple answers to these questions. Research has shown that there is a link between learning and intelligence. Dr. Howard Gardner is an American psychologist who believes that humans have a number of different intelligences that provide incite in defining who a person is. Dr. Gardner feels that, “We have some intelligences that are more developed than others. We also have the potential to develop some of these intelligences more than others.”