I used to drink at least a 6-pack of Pepsi every day - tapered off, substituting fruit juices and water. Now drink water by the liter. Had to take plenty of tylenol at first. Also, took up walking. Start with parking further away, walking up the stairs - then take a walk around the block at lunch time. Increase the distance as you are able. Buy some comfortable walking shoes. Before you know it, your heart will be working better, you'll be healthier, you'll drop weight. I use caffiene about once a month nowadays, I dropped 70 lbs, my resting heart rate is 55, and I don't get headaches anymore.
If we're looking for clues to the education of the future nanotech-wizards, perhaps we should ask where present-day whiz kids in another recent technology, the internet, come from. Is it their amazingly effective schooling? Not very likely - most schools, public or private, are well behind the curve when
it comes to teaching kids how to be a computer whiz.
The education of a software developer, a web designer, a game programmer, or other varieties of computer whiz kids sometimes includes formal classes, but it usually includes long periods of
hobbyist activity, of self-teaching, of learning
from other experts, of on-the-job-training. Very
little effective training of this sort takes place
as part of the official K-12 syllabi.
Hence, to train nanotech wizards, we might look to a similar model - freeform, interactive, student-driven. Just a thought.
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I used to drink at least a 6-pack of Pepsi every day - tapered off, substituting fruit juices and water. Now drink water by the liter. Had to take plenty of tylenol at first. Also, took up walking. Start with parking further away, walking up the stairs - then take a walk around the block at lunch time. Increase the distance as you are able. Buy some comfortable walking shoes. Before you know it, your heart will be working better, you'll be healthier, you'll drop weight. I use caffiene about once a month nowadays, I dropped 70 lbs, my resting heart rate is 55, and I don't get headaches anymore.
If we're looking for clues to the education of the future nanotech-wizards, perhaps we should ask where present-day whiz kids in another recent technology, the internet, come from. Is it their amazingly effective schooling? Not very likely - most schools, public or private, are well behind the curve when it comes to teaching kids how to be a computer whiz. The education of a software developer, a web designer, a game programmer, or other varieties of computer whiz kids sometimes includes formal classes, but it usually includes long periods of hobbyist activity, of self-teaching, of learning from other experts, of on-the-job-training. Very little effective training of this sort takes place as part of the official K-12 syllabi. Hence, to train nanotech wizards, we might look to a similar model - freeform, interactive, student-driven. Just a thought.