"Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them."
Excellent, so by playing Farmville I'm not only reducing my taxes (because they'd build the database anyway), but also contributing to the safety and counter terrorism efforts of my country.
..Class size?
As a science teacher, I fully agree with all the comments about the difficulty of firing teachers, and the effect of teachers of pupils performance, BUT in terms of my own teaching - if the school cannot afford enough teachers and class sizes are made larger - not even the best teacher in the world can make that much of a difference. On the other hand, fewer students with even a bad teacher will do better.
Also, the government (UK in this case) should stop changing the sylabus or current faddy pedagogy and let teachers teach the same thing for more than 3 years. Just when you start achieving results with whatever they have decided is the 'next best thing'(TM) they change it.
I know he's not a scientist per se, but David Attenborough had a huge influence on me as a child, along with BBC nature as a whole. As a child I'd watch them over and over and that interest passed over to the other sciences as a whole. He's the perfect person to get your kids into science as a whole. (I teach physics now).
As a teacher (11-18) I actually encourage the use of wikipedia as a first stop for information gathering. It gives me a really good way into explaining words such as 'bias' and 'reliable' to students. As long as you explain the things wrong with the website I don't understand the fuss.
To be fair, information found on wikipedia is a lot more accurate than the majority on information on the internet. Most pupil's don't even bother reading the information they find, they just copy and paste it (leading to post-grad level work in year 7 student homework). You pretty much have to spend an entire lesson explaining how to gather information and the pitfalls.
Wikipedia isn't banned because it's a bad website, it's banned because teachers don't explain how to use it properly.
...If this mac coup and the dead parrot mentioned earlier are somehow connected in a larger and more fiendish plot to take over all the internets. Maybe kdawson is trying to show us simple, innocuous (and downright boring) news pieces, and believes that a bunch of intelligent (and handsome) people such as ourselves will solve and prevent the diabolical plot. Maybe.
I recently lost my mobile phone somewhere in Wadham College gardens, Oxford, and I was wondering if I could get this kind of help to find it. Any takers?
Patent it, and if anyone wants to use it charge them one penny. That protects your patent and everyone thinks your a kind generous soul. However, if enough people use your idea because it's so amazing you could make a fortune.
Though taking all those pennies to the bank might get a bit tiresome.
I'm just starting my teacher training in physics in the UK and this news completely doesn't surprise me. I will be on of only 350 physics teachers being trained this year, and 25% of all schools in the country don't have a dedicated physics teacher. Basic scientific knowledge in England is abysmal, especially in the media. At least I will try and make a difference. Science doesn't need to get easier, I looked at the current syllabus and it's a complete joke. What it needs to do is get more interesting. Teach kids the basic principles (conservation of momentum, energy, forces, basical electrical systems etc) and then show them how it relates to their everyday lives.
Teaching at the moment is all about fulfilling quota's and passing targets set by the government so that it looks good. We should stop using education just as an election tool and forgetting about the education part.
One of the fundamental approximations in modern cosmology is that the universe is both isotropic and homogeneous over large scales (such as those which treat galaxies as point objects). This size hole s fairly big, and is noticeable on even this scale. This means there could be a special point in the universe, which caused all sorts of problems. Does this mean we have to re-think our basic theory of cosmology, or is this size hole possible under current theories, even if it is extremely unlikely to form. (the universe is a big place, even if something has a minuscule probability it still could happen somewhere out there.
Personally I think it was placed there by the universe to test our belief in God not existing.
Its a red cross. Its not a fancy logo, a clever play on words or something that took a large amount of time and effort to design. Its a cross, one that's red. Should that really be patentable? I mean, I may as well patent all green rectangles and sue everyone with a lawn. I'm all for protecting people intellectual property, but its just a red cross. Its known throughout the world as a symbol of aid, charity and medicine not a pharmaceutical company. Where did all the common sense go?
I think the fact most people are missing is that mature rated games tend to be better games. Apart from Nintendo offerings a large proportion of the critically acclaimed games are M rated. Can we really blame them for wanting to play the best games available? I think game producers should take a leaf out of Nintendo's book and actually make some decent games that kids are allowed to play, such as pikmin or paper mario, rather than bargain bin movie rip-offs.
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Reduction in skin pain seems very useful when you're at a much higher risk of sun burn.
"Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them."
Excellent, so by playing Farmville I'm not only reducing my taxes (because they'd build the database anyway), but also contributing to the safety and counter terrorism efforts of my country.
It's not only addictive, but patriotic.
Go EASY on your EBE's
..Class size? As a science teacher, I fully agree with all the comments about the difficulty of firing teachers, and the effect of teachers of pupils performance, BUT in terms of my own teaching - if the school cannot afford enough teachers and class sizes are made larger - not even the best teacher in the world can make that much of a difference. On the other hand, fewer students with even a bad teacher will do better. Also, the government (UK in this case) should stop changing the sylabus or current faddy pedagogy and let teachers teach the same thing for more than 3 years. Just when you start achieving results with whatever they have decided is the 'next best thing'(TM) they change it.
That there has been a sharp decline in our morality since the development of culture?
I know he's not a scientist per se, but David Attenborough had a huge influence on me as a child, along with BBC nature as a whole. As a child I'd watch them over and over and that interest passed over to the other sciences as a whole. He's the perfect person to get your kids into science as a whole. (I teach physics now).
As a teacher (11-18) I actually encourage the use of wikipedia as a first stop for information gathering. It gives me a really good way into explaining words such as 'bias' and 'reliable' to students. As long as you explain the things wrong with the website I don't understand the fuss. To be fair, information found on wikipedia is a lot more accurate than the majority on information on the internet. Most pupil's don't even bother reading the information they find, they just copy and paste it (leading to post-grad level work in year 7 student homework). You pretty much have to spend an entire lesson explaining how to gather information and the pitfalls. Wikipedia isn't banned because it's a bad website, it's banned because teachers don't explain how to use it properly.
...to patent gravity?
...If this mac coup and the dead parrot mentioned earlier are somehow connected in a larger and more fiendish plot to take over all the internets. Maybe kdawson is trying to show us simple, innocuous (and downright boring) news pieces, and believes that a bunch of intelligent (and handsome) people such as ourselves will solve and prevent the diabolical plot. Maybe.
I recently lost my mobile phone somewhere in Wadham College gardens, Oxford, and I was wondering if I could get this kind of help to find it. Any takers?
They didn't include a "rose tinted" filter. It would be like the best version ever, even if it wasn't.
Patent it, and if anyone wants to use it charge them one penny. That protects your patent and everyone thinks your a kind generous soul. However, if enough people use your idea because it's so amazing you could make a fortune. Though taking all those pennies to the bank might get a bit tiresome.
I'm just starting my teacher training in physics in the UK and this news completely doesn't surprise me. I will be on of only 350 physics teachers being trained this year, and 25% of all schools in the country don't have a dedicated physics teacher. Basic scientific knowledge in England is abysmal, especially in the media. At least I will try and make a difference. Science doesn't need to get easier, I looked at the current syllabus and it's a complete joke. What it needs to do is get more interesting. Teach kids the basic principles (conservation of momentum, energy, forces, basical electrical systems etc) and then show them how it relates to their everyday lives. Teaching at the moment is all about fulfilling quota's and passing targets set by the government so that it looks good. We should stop using education just as an election tool and forgetting about the education part.
One of the fundamental approximations in modern cosmology is that the universe is both isotropic and homogeneous over large scales (such as those which treat galaxies as point objects). This size hole s fairly big, and is noticeable on even this scale. This means there could be a special point in the universe, which caused all sorts of problems. Does this mean we have to re-think our basic theory of cosmology, or is this size hole possible under current theories, even if it is extremely unlikely to form. (the universe is a big place, even if something has a minuscule probability it still could happen somewhere out there. Personally I think it was placed there by the universe to test our belief in God not existing.
Its a red cross. Its not a fancy logo, a clever play on words or something that took a large amount of time and effort to design. Its a cross, one that's red. Should that really be patentable? I mean, I may as well patent all green rectangles and sue everyone with a lawn. I'm all for protecting people intellectual property, but its just a red cross. Its known throughout the world as a symbol of aid, charity and medicine not a pharmaceutical company. Where did all the common sense go?
I guess I'll have to start stealing the owners computer as well as their ipod.
I think the fact most people are missing is that mature rated games tend to be better games. Apart from Nintendo offerings a large proportion of the critically acclaimed games are M rated. Can we really blame them for wanting to play the best games available? I think game producers should take a leaf out of Nintendo's book and actually make some decent games that kids are allowed to play, such as pikmin or paper mario, rather than bargain bin movie rip-offs.
Why is there a limit, surely they can just build wider pipes?