I used to tutor first year computing classes at university. The scenario I saw in nearly every lab went something like this:
1. Guy student 1 gets stuck at some point in lab work
2. Guy student asks guy student 2 for help
3. Guy student 2 tells him he's an idiot, give the briefest possible answer and returns to his own work
4. Guy student 1, equipped with the brief answer, is now able to work out his problem
In contrast with:
1. Girl student gets stuck at some point in lab work
2. Girl student asks guy student for help
3. Guy student pushes his chair over to girl student's computer, crowds her away from the keyboard and finishes the entire exercise for her
4. Girl student looks annoyed, but doesn't want to offend guy student so thanks him politely
The result? The girl student has learned nothing, other than she can easily get guys to do her work for her. This is fine in labs and assignments, but tends to fall over when exam time rolls around. She loses confidence in her abilities to handle the course work, never develops a feel for coding and by the next semester she's quietly switching to biology or psych.
I used to spend probably half of my labs dragging the boys away from the girls' computers.
When this happened to me when I was a student, rather than the teacher, I did actually try the "thanks, but I only want help with point A, how about you let me try to finish the rest myself" approach. It didn't work. They'd actually say "that's ok I can finish it for you". I found I had to get pretty aggressive with them to make them stop doing my work, then they got really offended.
Hunting is a skill cats need to learn, instinct or no.
I remember when my cat was young he started showing up with a variety of interesting injuries over the course of a couple of weeks.
Finally, we found him one morning sitting outside the back door, proud as punch with his right eye so bruised it was closed and with a decapitated adult possum lying at his feet. The possum was nearly as big as he was and clearly bringing it down had taken a few goes.
He brought me a few other rats and possums over the following years, in various states of dismemberment, but he never got injured in the process again.
He never did figure out how to catch birds though. I watched him try a few times and not even get close.
By the way, possums are not in any kind of short supply where I live. If I lived closer to real bushland I would not have a cat as a pet.
I think that the selling point is that the kids don't all have to be in the same room.
I did a software platform for a similar project back in 1998. The impetus for taking it online was that universities from all over the world would take part in the scenarios, which generally ran for a couple of months. The only example mentioned on the site is that in 2005 it was Macquarie University in Australia and the University of Texas taking part. At other times they've done it with the American University in Cairo, other schools in America and a few other Australian universities.
So yes, there may have been 30 kids all in the same room taking part, but there were probably another 15 kids sitting in another room a very long way away. There is no way all those kids could afford to be in the same place for the duration.
Under the plan, the three cities will each have a network of between 200,000 and 250,000 charge stations by 2012...
Um, so which three cities would that be?
Technically there are half a dozen or so "cities" in what most people would otherwise call "Sydney" (eg Sydney, Manly/Warringah, Willoughby... ok I'm from the North Shore but you get the picture... frantic Wikipedia search... how about Holroyd?).
Or there are the main state and federal capitals, of which there are more than 3. Not many more than 3, but still...
The photoessay that that picture comes from is interesting, but really it says nothing in particular about the effects radiation.
Most of those kids (other than the one in the picture linked by the parent poster) looked like they could be suffering from nothing more unusual than cerebral palsy or other reasonably common physical and/or mental defects. If I went into any disabled children's care facility or cancer ward in any large city in the world with a camera and knocked the kids out of their fancy western wheelchairs I could take pretty much the same pictures (barring my complete and utter lack of photographic ability).
It's sad but sometimes birth defects do just happen. The question that isn't addressed in these sorts of emotive pieces - and research into which the originally linked article is discussing - is to what extent exposure to radiation increases their liklihood in a population.
How did you look and how did your measurements change though?
Don't forget that muscle weighs more than fat. If you were doing that much jogging you probably changed your appearance a lot more than 5lbs of weight loss would suggest. ie your weight didn't change much but I'll bet you were noticeably leaner (although this depends on how big you were to start off with).
And seriously... there's jogging and then there's jogging. How far did you go and how fast did you run? Were there hills involved or was it on the flat?
What other factors were there? I know that when I've been unemployed I've tended to eat a lot more as well as doing more exercise and to a degree those two things will balance themselves out.
I remember getting a chemistry set when I was a kid (mid-eighties I suppose) and I think the most exciting thing I managed to do with it was to make some clear liquid turn red, then clear again.
It was rather disappointing when compared to some of my experiments with Things Found In Every Kitchen...
My (all girls) high school chemistry teacher expressed a lot of dismay at the changing laws about what chemicals she was allowed to show us. The education department provided these videos of "safe" demonstrations of the various properties of dangerous things that they were supposed to show us in lieu of a live demo. She'd show us the video... then swear us all to secrecy and produce an ancient brown jar of [sodium|sulfur|some other now banned chemical] from the bowels of the school's ancient chemical safe and repeat a fair portion of the experiments for us.
Sometimes it's good to go to an old school... we only had to evacuate the building once (lesson learned: sulfur + fire = bad).
I'll never forget a particular class during organic chemistry. We'd made some crappy alcohol and were distilling it and she told us about how at university she and her classmates in the chemistry department used to have massive cocktail parties using the pure ethanol stock.
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I used to tutor first year computing classes at university. The scenario I saw in nearly every lab went something like this:
1. Guy student 1 gets stuck at some point in lab work
2. Guy student asks guy student 2 for help
3. Guy student 2 tells him he's an idiot, give the briefest possible answer and returns to his own work
4. Guy student 1, equipped with the brief answer, is now able to work out his problem
In contrast with:
1. Girl student gets stuck at some point in lab work
2. Girl student asks guy student for help
3. Guy student pushes his chair over to girl student's computer, crowds her away from the keyboard and finishes the entire exercise for her
4. Girl student looks annoyed, but doesn't want to offend guy student so thanks him politely
The result? The girl student has learned nothing, other than she can easily get guys to do her work for her. This is fine in labs and assignments, but tends to fall over when exam time rolls around. She loses confidence in her abilities to handle the course work, never develops a feel for coding and by the next semester she's quietly switching to biology or psych.
I used to spend probably half of my labs dragging the boys away from the girls' computers.
When this happened to me when I was a student, rather than the teacher, I did actually try the "thanks, but I only want help with point A, how about you let me try to finish the rest myself" approach. It didn't work. They'd actually say "that's ok I can finish it for you". I found I had to get pretty aggressive with them to make them stop doing my work, then they got really offended.
Hunting is a skill cats need to learn, instinct or no.
I remember when my cat was young he started showing up with a variety of interesting injuries over the course of a couple of weeks.
Finally, we found him one morning sitting outside the back door, proud as punch with his right eye so bruised it was closed and with a decapitated adult possum lying at his feet. The possum was nearly as big as he was and clearly bringing it down had taken a few goes.
He brought me a few other rats and possums over the following years, in various states of dismemberment, but he never got injured in the process again.
He never did figure out how to catch birds though. I watched him try a few times and not even get close.
By the way, possums are not in any kind of short supply where I live. If I lived closer to real bushland I would not have a cat as a pet.
I think that the selling point is that the kids don't all have to be in the same room.
I did a software platform for a similar project back in 1998. The impetus for taking it online was that universities from all over the world would take part in the scenarios, which generally ran for a couple of months. The only example mentioned on the site is that in 2005 it was Macquarie University in Australia and the University of Texas taking part. At other times they've done it with the American University in Cairo, other schools in America and a few other Australian universities.
So yes, there may have been 30 kids all in the same room taking part, but there were probably another 15 kids sitting in another room a very long way away. There is no way all those kids could afford to be in the same place for the duration.
Under the plan, the three cities will each have a network of between 200,000 and 250,000 charge stations by 2012 ...
Um, so which three cities would that be?
Technically there are half a dozen or so "cities" in what most people would otherwise call "Sydney" (eg Sydney, Manly/Warringah, Willoughby... ok I'm from the North Shore but you get the picture... frantic Wikipedia search... how about Holroyd?).
Or there are the main state and federal capitals, of which there are more than 3. Not many more than 3, but still...
The photoessay that that picture comes from is interesting, but really it says nothing in particular about the effects radiation.
Most of those kids (other than the one in the picture linked by the parent poster) looked like they could be suffering from nothing more unusual than cerebral palsy or other reasonably common physical and/or mental defects. If I went into any disabled children's care facility or cancer ward in any large city in the world with a camera and knocked the kids out of their fancy western wheelchairs I could take pretty much the same pictures (barring my complete and utter lack of photographic ability).
It's sad but sometimes birth defects do just happen. The question that isn't addressed in these sorts of emotive pieces - and research into which the originally linked article is discussing - is to what extent exposure to radiation increases their liklihood in a population.
I do agree that TFA is highly skewed though.
How did you look and how did your measurements change though?
Don't forget that muscle weighs more than fat. If you were doing that much jogging you probably changed your appearance a lot more than 5lbs of weight loss would suggest. ie your weight didn't change much but I'll bet you were noticeably leaner (although this depends on how big you were to start off with).
And seriously... there's jogging and then there's jogging. How far did you go and how fast did you run? Were there hills involved or was it on the flat?
What other factors were there? I know that when I've been unemployed I've tended to eat a lot more as well as doing more exercise and to a degree those two things will balance themselves out.
I remember getting a chemistry set when I was a kid (mid-eighties I suppose) and I think the most exciting thing I managed to do with it was to make some clear liquid turn red, then clear again.
It was rather disappointing when compared to some of my experiments with Things Found In Every Kitchen...
My (all girls) high school chemistry teacher expressed a lot of dismay at the changing laws about what chemicals she was allowed to show us. The education department provided these videos of "safe" demonstrations of the various properties of dangerous things that they were supposed to show us in lieu of a live demo. She'd show us the video... then swear us all to secrecy and produce an ancient brown jar of [sodium|sulfur|some other now banned chemical] from the bowels of the school's ancient chemical safe and repeat a fair portion of the experiments for us.
Sometimes it's good to go to an old school ... we only had to evacuate the building once (lesson learned: sulfur + fire = bad).
I'll never forget a particular class during organic chemistry. We'd made some crappy alcohol and were distilling it and she told us about how at university she and her classmates in the chemistry department used to have massive cocktail parties using the pure ethanol stock.
Actually, the Australian Senate can propose new bills. They just don't usually.
From parliament's website: