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Virginia Begins Open-Source Physics Textbook
eldavojohn writes "The Commonwealth of Virginia has issued a request for contributions to an open source physics textbook (or 'flexbook' they termed it). They are partnering with CK-12 to make this educational textbook under the Creative Commons by Attribution Share-Alike license."
Due to gravity being "just a theory," the state of Virginia will be requiring the textbooks to include alternative theories as to why objects with mass have gravity -- chief among them, the concept of Intelligent Falling.
Yeah... as a Virginian, this makes me proud. The open sourcing of education is just awesome. I can't wait for my kids to learn how Albert Einstein delivered the ten commandments that brought the enlightenment of the time cube to the world, and other things of this nature. I also wish upon the experience of needing critical information for a research paper only to find the project killed because of rampant forking and infighting amongst educators. They'll be better people for it. /kidding... mostly that is
I got a catholic block.
Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how many trees I'm saving. or something, whatever.
You mad
Maybe it will be available as a compiled HTML file.
Professor, I think you need to look at the "textbook" again. I am pretty sure my answer is right.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Why do you hate lumberjacks?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Considering the religious and cultural makeup of Virginia, I look forward to an accurate physical description of our 6,000 year old universe.
Albert Einstein didnt deliver the ten commandments, Charlton Heston did silly
NO! This is an Outrage!! This is blasphemy!! Any honest fool knows that the best way to provide education,a or anything else for that matter, is to allow the unregulated invisible hand of the free market to solve everything. The magic of the markets can do it all, as long as they are unfettered by big government socialists! This project is Economic Terrorism!!
This is unfair government competition in an otherwise productive and creative industry. Just look at the high quality and low costs of textbooks and courses currently on offer! Just look at the amount of engineers graduating from our universities! The free market has brought us prosperity, happiness and profit and can bring us so much more if only the government would cut more taxes and ... ....what?... they what?...when?...how much?..... ........
Pay No Attention The Trillion Dollar Nationalization Project Behind The Curtain. The Market Will Continue To Solve All. This Is Simply A Temporary Accounting Measure. I Repeat. The Magic Of The Market Is Absolute!
May the Maths Be with you!
And the Lord sayeth on the 2nd day, "Let there be suffient mass for nuclear fusion," and Lo! did the bountiful Earth swoop in from Heaven to orbit the newly formed sun.
We're forking it - those guys are assholes ;-)
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
[citation needed]
I got preview of some content for the text-book:
Yeah! I'm a lumberjack, and I'm OK.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
At least they didn't opt for Feb 29, 2009.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
an open-source physics text book cannot work. Physicists just can't agree on even the most basic aspects of their science.
1. TFA states that this is for K-12, NOT college...so all the 'screw the Univ. for making me pay $200 for a textbook comments' are misguided
Maybe he goes to a really bad college, where they use high school textbooks.
Ahem - check your facts - it was actually Mel Brooks
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The manifest absurdity of it is too obvious to require explanation