Evolution isn't taught as fact because we're afraid of introducing other theories. It's taught as fact because it's the best way to understand the natural world. It's a road map for every other facet of biology.
Similarly, atomic theory is taught as fact even though we can't see electrons. However, every other facet of chemistry reinforces the current model of the atom. Without that model, chemistry as we know it makes no sense, has no backbone.
Would you be open to the plum pudding model of the atom being taught in schools as a possible candidate for what an atom really looks and behaves like?
I was a biochem major. Critical thinking was a major part of any science class, even more so than the answers. It's the process that is important - with it we can come up with the same answers as everyone else, rather than just believing what's in a book.
But at the high school level, I'm not sure it's possible to really instill critical thinking into a science class to the point that it's a major part of the learning process. I don't mean it isn't possible for 15-18 year old kids to understand and think that way, just that the current high school curriculum is limited to facts in a textbook.
In a perfect world, we'd be condensing science and math so that current college-level material was taught at the high school level, and shorten college to 2-3 years of more focused material. I shouldn't have needed 60 credits of art, history, and humanities to obtain a technical degree.
See, I think you're half-right. I think priests went into the priesthood to cure themselves of such thoughts. As in, they like kids and other guys, so they may as well do something which doesn't allow sex anyway.
And of course, because they're human, they give in to their urges eventually anyway.
1. Say whatever you have to say, in order to do whatever you want to do.
2. Do it
3. Claim that it isn't your fault that your explanation isn't entirely true
Puberty would not last until age 130 because that is not what anti-aging targets. Currently we don't begin to "age" (in a cellular sense) until well past puberty.
A state trooper once told me that the absolute safest speed to travel was the AVERAGE speed of the cars around you.
That's because cars are less likely to hit one another if their relative distance from each other remains constant.
The leftmost lane is ONLY used for passing.
Um, maybe, maybe not. Where I live, the main highways are so congested, the left lane is used for regular traffic just like every other lane. Passing on the left happens at like 7 AM on Sunday morning, but when the road is that clear, you can pass on either side freely and safely. But during rush hour, there's very little you can do to pass or let others pass. It's just very very congested.
But I agree about pulling over to let someone pass even you think your speed is appropriate for the lane you're in. The worst thing you can do is piss off a mini-convoy of impatient motorists. It's not good for you, them, or anyone else on the road.
I remember when they passed that law. But then a few years later as a radio show stunt they had a woman walk down the street topless with a mike and report. She was arrested.
I don't know the specifics of the law, but perhaps a woman's right to be topless has some limits.
While it didn't appear in the article, I've seen quite a bit of stuff suggesting that a big moon could be a necessity.
The fact is, no one knows how likely it is for a planet to develop life, or intelligent life. We can speculate, but it's a wild guess at best. There's just too much uncharted wilderness out there and we have only one positive event with which to draw conclusions.
Recycling doesn't necessarily lead to better air quality. There's a lot of industrial activity (for lack of a better term) in recycling, you just shift the cost from one place to another.
There's no end. Once you hit 70 it's possible to join a meta-game of the main game called raiding. Raiding is anywhere from 2-3 days a week, 3-4 hours each day, to 24/7. Most people I know that raid play 60+ hours a week.
I like the game, but Blizzard sort of funnels the player base into raiding. Why? So they become addicted and their entire life is WoW, and they never want it to stop. It's not a good scene.
Let me just say that the scientific method is alive and well, and in none of the peer-reviewed journals I've had material published in, do they take "I Googled it" to be valid.
Will there? The president is one man. The "power" is (correctly) spread around. I like Obama, I think he has a good head on his shoulders, but change will take time. And it will probably take a few really obvious abuses of power to get the average Joe to notice.
There was a separate article discussing the ARDA vulnerability a few days ago if I recall. Also, and I think there was much argument about this, the perpetrator has to have physical access to the machine at some point, which makes the vulnerability almost not worth mentioning.
Also, no one thinks Apple is invulnerable, there are just some basic security measures in place that work very well. As a Mac user, behind a firewall, I don't worry about anything*. And I won't until I have a good reason to.
Of course, I still worry about e-mail phishing scams, but those are platform independent anyway, and even non-tech savvy people can be taught how to avoid them.
Why am I suddenly reminded of the Star Trek TNG episode where they encounter the planet in which everyone commits suicide at 60, and the scientist doesn't want to because he has important work to do.:)
By being materialistic, you are more attractive to women. Sexual selection has led to generations of materialistic men because their fathers and grandfathers were materialistic, because the men who were had wives and children.
I don't know if we've found the gene for liking hifi stereos yet:)
Also, cancer doesn't need outside influences, your body will do it all on its own. If we were all immortal (no programmed life span) we would eventually all die of cancer.
Actually, lifespans were quite normal. If you lived to be 10 you could expect to live to be 60. The problem was, many did NOT live to be 10, and when you're taking an average, (60+0)/2 = 30, so just looking at average lifespans you see very low numbers.
But certainly, exposure to sun was not what was killing people back then anyway. It was usually disease, starvation, and war.
The thing is, you're preaching to the choir here. You want a rep out of office? You have to go out and convince 75 year old Nanny McSleepytime that this is a big deal and worth changing who she votes over. But she won't agree. To her this is NOT a big deal and you are a belligerent pest for bothering her with it.
The part of America who puts these people in office does not care about the constitution any more than the representatives they're voting on. They want to be lied to and placated. Shoving the truth in their face will get you a swift "GTFO" and won't change their minds one bit.
If you check the votes, it's hardly supported by both parties. The dems alone had more nays than yeas. The republicans had almost unanimous support however.
Yes, it's possible the dems could have had many more nays, but you can still form some opinions based on these results.
You're still paying less than a retail copy of XP. The reason it's more than Vista is because Dell likely has a new contract for including Vista on a new computer, where they no longer have the deal for XP. So you're paying full OEM price for the copy.
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Evolution isn't taught as fact because we're afraid of introducing other theories. It's taught as fact because it's the best way to understand the natural world. It's a road map for every other facet of biology.
Similarly, atomic theory is taught as fact even though we can't see electrons. However, every other facet of chemistry reinforces the current model of the atom. Without that model, chemistry as we know it makes no sense, has no backbone.
Would you be open to the plum pudding model of the atom being taught in schools as a possible candidate for what an atom really looks and behaves like?
I was a biochem major. Critical thinking was a major part of any science class, even more so than the answers. It's the process that is important - with it we can come up with the same answers as everyone else, rather than just believing what's in a book.
But at the high school level, I'm not sure it's possible to really instill critical thinking into a science class to the point that it's a major part of the learning process. I don't mean it isn't possible for 15-18 year old kids to understand and think that way, just that the current high school curriculum is limited to facts in a textbook.
In a perfect world, we'd be condensing science and math so that current college-level material was taught at the high school level, and shorten college to 2-3 years of more focused material. I shouldn't have needed 60 credits of art, history, and humanities to obtain a technical degree.
See, I think you're half-right. I think priests went into the priesthood to cure themselves of such thoughts. As in, they like kids and other guys, so they may as well do something which doesn't allow sex anyway.
And of course, because they're human, they give in to their urges eventually anyway.
1. Say whatever you have to say, in order to do whatever you want to do.
2. Do it
3. Claim that it isn't your fault that your explanation isn't entirely true
This is how I get out of yardwork.
Puberty would not last until age 130 because that is not what anti-aging targets. Currently we don't begin to "age" (in a cellular sense) until well past puberty.
It may however prolong the onset of menopause.
provide first and LAST names to casual browsers? That right there should raise some flags.
A state trooper once told me that the absolute safest speed to travel was the AVERAGE speed of the cars around you.
That's because cars are less likely to hit one another if their relative distance from each other remains constant.
The leftmost lane is ONLY used for passing.
Um, maybe, maybe not. Where I live, the main highways are so congested, the left lane is used for regular traffic just like every other lane. Passing on the left happens at like 7 AM on Sunday morning, but when the road is that clear, you can pass on either side freely and safely. But during rush hour, there's very little you can do to pass or let others pass. It's just very very congested.
But I agree about pulling over to let someone pass even you think your speed is appropriate for the lane you're in. The worst thing you can do is piss off a mini-convoy of impatient motorists. It's not good for you, them, or anyone else on the road.
in Slashdot posts?
I remember when they passed that law. But then a few years later as a radio show stunt they had a woman walk down the street topless with a mike and report. She was arrested. I don't know the specifics of the law, but perhaps a woman's right to be topless has some limits.
While it didn't appear in the article, I've seen quite a bit of stuff suggesting that a big moon could be a necessity.
The fact is, no one knows how likely it is for a planet to develop life, or intelligent life. We can speculate, but it's a wild guess at best. There's just too much uncharted wilderness out there and we have only one positive event with which to draw conclusions.
Recycling doesn't necessarily lead to better air quality. There's a lot of industrial activity (for lack of a better term) in recycling, you just shift the cost from one place to another.
There's no end. Once you hit 70 it's possible to join a meta-game of the main game called raiding. Raiding is anywhere from 2-3 days a week, 3-4 hours each day, to 24/7. Most people I know that raid play 60+ hours a week.
I like the game, but Blizzard sort of funnels the player base into raiding. Why? So they become addicted and their entire life is WoW, and they never want it to stop. It's not a good scene.
But copious use of the word "facial" caused the site to be blocked.
Let me just say that the scientific method is alive and well, and in none of the peer-reviewed journals I've had material published in, do they take "I Googled it" to be valid.
come January, there will be a transfer of power.
Will there? The president is one man. The "power" is (correctly) spread around. I like Obama, I think he has a good head on his shoulders, but change will take time. And it will probably take a few really obvious abuses of power to get the average Joe to notice.
There was a separate article discussing the ARDA vulnerability a few days ago if I recall. Also, and I think there was much argument about this, the perpetrator has to have physical access to the machine at some point, which makes the vulnerability almost not worth mentioning.
Also, no one thinks Apple is invulnerable, there are just some basic security measures in place that work very well. As a Mac user, behind a firewall, I don't worry about anything*. And I won't until I have a good reason to.
Of course, I still worry about e-mail phishing scams, but those are platform independent anyway, and even non-tech savvy people can be taught how to avoid them.
And I have copyright protected files on it, are they guilty of copyright infringement?
Why am I suddenly reminded of the Star Trek TNG episode where they encounter the planet in which everyone commits suicide at 60, and the scientist doesn't want to because he has important work to do. :)
By being materialistic, you are more attractive to women. Sexual selection has led to generations of materialistic men because their fathers and grandfathers were materialistic, because the men who were had wives and children.
:)
I don't know if we've found the gene for liking hifi stereos yet
Also, cancer doesn't need outside influences, your body will do it all on its own. If we were all immortal (no programmed life span) we would eventually all die of cancer.
Actually, lifespans were quite normal. If you lived to be 10 you could expect to live to be 60. The problem was, many did NOT live to be 10, and when you're taking an average, (60+0)/2 = 30, so just looking at average lifespans you see very low numbers.
But certainly, exposure to sun was not what was killing people back then anyway. It was usually disease, starvation, and war.
The thing is, you're preaching to the choir here. You want a rep out of office? You have to go out and convince 75 year old Nanny McSleepytime that this is a big deal and worth changing who she votes over. But she won't agree. To her this is NOT a big deal and you are a belligerent pest for bothering her with it.
The part of America who puts these people in office does not care about the constitution any more than the representatives they're voting on. They want to be lied to and placated. Shoving the truth in their face will get you a swift "GTFO" and won't change their minds one bit.
Sad, but true.
If you check the votes, it's hardly supported by both parties. The dems alone had more nays than yeas. The republicans had almost unanimous support however. Yes, it's possible the dems could have had many more nays, but you can still form some opinions based on these results.
I don't know, how can you make murder illegal if it's legal to view a picture of a dead body, or a movie that portrays people being killed?
You're still paying less than a retail copy of XP. The reason it's more than Vista is because Dell likely has a new contract for including Vista on a new computer, where they no longer have the deal for XP. So you're paying full OEM price for the copy.