Jean Piaget also had various "Children can't/don't learn X before age Y", and then his ideas were later blown away when someone gave the children M&M's if they got the answers right rather than just doing what the researcher apparently wanted them to. (E.g: show a kid six bottles. Ask how many there are. Spread the bottles further apart. Ask if there are now more bottles. It's a stupid question that shouldn't even be asked, and the kid knows this. But if this grown-up wants to play this game, or whatever, ok, I'll tell him there are more. Now repeat the process with six M&Ms, and tell the kid they get to eat the M&Ms if they answer correctly. Suddenly, they develop the ability to reason abstractly about number before age Y! I would be surprised if Montessori was more rigorous than Piaget.)
I highly doubt that children ages 3-4 cannot reason in the abstract.
...where can I get a genetic evaluation for my girlfriend and I...
you're posting on slashdot, so you might want to write "girlfriend" as "putative girlfriend" or "future girlfriend". Otherwise you could get modded down for overactive imagination, etc.
If you are reading this, go to the parent post's link: http://slashdot.org/~xtracto/journal/121088 and then follow the link to (at least) one randomly selected product at amazon. Look at the reviews, and mark "helpful" all the reviews that mention the DRM.
That will do a little more to get the message out.
Well, I'm still waiting for a post-modern abstractist style FPS
Uh, hello, you're playing it now! My score's so high a bug in the game won't let it go any higher. The NPCs here are a drag, but other than that, very mind expanding as you would expect from this branch of the genre...
"All this talk about 'firing' the guy, I don't understand it," El Nino said. "It was a painful but ultimately amicable decision. He didn't want to change his diet, and we just couldn't take the smell."
I was just moving some furniture around, and I found some dusty discs that could only reasonably have come from an Earth-like planet. So I would support this new "dusty disc implies Earth-like planet" idea. I wonder if they would like hi-res photos of the discs I located?
Some of our prosperity is going to leak out to a country that really, really needs it? What will I do? I might have to live in a trailer and teach school! And I would still be living a life of fabulous wealth by the standards of India.
In sexual creatures (like people!), only the female can produce young.
(a) Millions of seahorses around the world are reading this and saying "what are we, chopped liver"?
(b) Saying "only the female can produce young" is a bit moronic anyway when you were just talking about asexual reproduction, where one thing really can produce young. The whole point of sexual reproduction is that neither can produce young alone.
It is true that in most species the female body has a much more significant role as a host of the parasitic new thing that is created when the egg is fertilized.
Dr Kanazawa suggests "a single psychological mechanism" is responsible for [the reduction in both crime and creative (or should that be "other creative") output after marriage]: the competitive edge among young men to fight for glory and gain the attention of women.
That craving drives the all-important male hormone, testosterone.
(a) perhaps once one gets married they just realize that there are more important things in life than showing off to your peers
(b) perhaps once one realizes that there are more important things that showing off for one's peers, one decides to get married
(b) either way, more problems would be solved in the world by good parenting than will ever be solved by "creative output", so maybe there's hope after all.
This is almost always the best answer to this question. Don't ask "how can I use the computer". Ask "what does the computer make possible that was either impossible or impractical before", and then be sure to ask "and would that make my class better if we covered/did that?".
Anonymous peer editing/critique is posible with paper and pencil, too, but it's much harder to do. Enter teh computer.
But if you simply look for ways to use the computer, the overwhelming probability is that you will come up with some sort of extraneous add-on that doesn't really make sense in the big pigture. Which shouldn't be surprising, because you went out looking for an extraneous add-on, completely unmotivated by anything in the big picture.
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It wasn't really fair to require the poor blacksmiths to carry around the family and a trunkload of groceries anyway. I bet the blacksmiths were glad.
Heh. You're on slashdot disparaging another site's credibility.
Jean Piaget also had various "Children can't/don't learn X before age Y", and then his ideas were later blown away when someone gave the children M&M's if they got the answers right rather than just doing what the researcher apparently wanted them to. (E.g: show a kid six bottles. Ask how many there are. Spread the bottles further apart. Ask if there are now more bottles. It's a stupid question that shouldn't even be asked, and the kid knows this. But if this grown-up wants to play this game, or whatever, ok, I'll tell him there are more. Now repeat the process with six M&Ms, and tell the kid they get to eat the M&Ms if they answer correctly. Suddenly, they develop the ability to reason abstractly about number before age Y! I would be surprised if Montessori was more rigorous than Piaget.)
I highly doubt that children ages 3-4 cannot reason in the abstract.
you're posting on slashdot, so you might want to write "girlfriend" as "putative girlfriend" or "future girlfriend". Otherwise you could get modded down for overactive imagination, etc.
If you are reading this, go to the parent post's link: http://slashdot.org/~xtracto/journal/121088 and then follow the link to (at least) one randomly selected product at amazon. Look at the reviews, and mark "helpful" all the reviews that mention the DRM.
That will do a little more to get the message out.
Uh, hello, you're playing it now! My score's so high a bug in the game won't let it go any higher. The NPCs here are a drag, but other than that, very mind expanding as you would expect from this branch of the genre...
Yeah, well, it's hard to be credible at the same time you're saying that you want to miss out on strongbad email.
http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html
(n.b. this link won't do much for you since you don't have flash)
The wagon fulla pancakes by itself is worth installing flash for.
...I think you meant "carries a lot of mass in the music industry".
um, _I_ care, and my user id is like a tenth of yours.
It got hot. A lot of French people died.
Tell me the bad part?
no biggies--can you have that by next year? :)
s/events and world attitudes/my preferred reality/;
It's the new "boxers or briefs".
Now we'll have to start taking them seriously.
...John Wayne Bobbit had all of his kitchen knives replaced with electric knives sporting the new technology.
first our jobs, now our free software guru...
"All this talk about 'firing' the guy, I don't understand it," El Nino said. "It was a painful but ultimately amicable decision. He didn't want to change his diet, and we just couldn't take the smell."
I was just moving some furniture around, and I found some dusty discs that could only reasonably have come from an Earth-like planet. So I would support this new "dusty disc implies Earth-like planet" idea. I wonder if they would like hi-res photos of the discs I located?
...Apple was predicted to die the same year. But that will be ok, because that is also the exact year that Linux will be ready for the desktop.
...but just to the west of you there's an even bigger lake...
Some of our prosperity is going to leak out to a country that really, really needs it? What will I do? I might have to live in a trailer and teach school! And I would still be living a life of fabulous wealth by the standards of India.
(a) Millions of seahorses around the world are reading this and saying "what are we, chopped liver"?
(b) Saying "only the female can produce young" is a bit moronic anyway when you were just talking about asexual reproduction, where one thing really can produce young. The whole point of sexual reproduction is that neither can produce young alone.
It is true that in most species the female body has a much more significant role as a host of the parasitic new thing that is created when the egg is fertilized.
(a) perhaps once one gets married they just realize that there are more important things in life than showing off to your peers
(b) perhaps once one realizes that there are more important things that showing off for one's peers, one decides to get married
(b) either way, more problems would be solved in the world by good parenting than will ever be solved by "creative output", so maybe there's hope after all.
Raising children well requires genius.
This is almost always the best answer to this question. Don't ask "how can I use the computer". Ask "what does the computer make possible that was either impossible or impractical before", and then be sure to ask "and would that make my class better if we covered/did that?".
Anonymous peer editing/critique is posible with paper and pencil, too, but it's much harder to do. Enter teh computer.
But if you simply look for ways to use the computer, the overwhelming probability is that you will come up with some sort of extraneous add-on that doesn't really make sense in the big pigture. Which shouldn't be surprising, because you went out looking for an extraneous add-on, completely unmotivated by anything in the big picture.