Back in the 70s I watched popeye,
But all I got out of it was candy cigarettes, and I recall I convinced my parents to get me a corn cob pipe.
Think maybe that's why the popularity of that cartoon went down with politically correct movement and the smoking bans?
Totally agree, there is a big difference to giving a calculator to someone who already knows how to do the math by hand, than giving it to someone who doesn't know how to do the math by hand in the first place.
It doesn't help you learn, and really can hinder the learing. If you only learn the trick and not the trade, you've learned nothing.
Being a motorcyclist I have also had trouble with induction rings. The trick is to identify the ring, by the cut in the road. Then to ride up one cut side of the ring as quickly as possible and stop abruptly at the end. If it's a double loop, the trick is to ride up the middle cut in the road.
And induction ring is creating a current like a motor does. But your bike, or my motorcycle is the magnet or metal in the motor, and the ring of wire is the coil. The speed and amount of metal makes a difference in the amount of current created. Apparently once your stopped if you lean your bike over the ring, almost laying it down, it will help increase the current in the ring, changing the traffic signal.
My concern is, that even if they wanted to Monsanto has sued the seed cleaners, and public seed stores into the ground.
Farmers used to plant hundreds of varieties of Corn and Soy and then keep and wash the seeds to plant them next year. But we are loosing the technology and the strains of plants to be able to do that.
This could just be the beginning. Thank goodness it's only weeds that are resistant. Once it's a pest to the crop, which will come soon enough all the corn is vulnerable, all the Soy is vulnerable because they are all the same strain now across the whole country.
What I have done, and what I encourage others to do. Boycott Monsanto, don't buy their roundup products. Buy Organic, you'd be amazed what your purchasing decisions tells the agribusiness. You CAN make them change. Great movie FOOD INC. just came out recently watch it and see where your food is coming from.
First. "There are no such things as kids who can't learn, just teachers that can't teach"
Every teacher hears that in teachers college. Some kids learn differently but they all learn, the teacher just needs to put the effort in finding out how each kid learns.
Second you should do a survey, 2-3 years after the kid has graduated, to both the parent and the student. Ask who are the best teachers you (or your child) had while in high school, and tell us why. And who are the worst teachers you (or your child) had while in high school.
As a parent we know the bad teachers, the lazy ones that put no effort into teaching. The ones where our kids come home every day. Oh what did you learn? oh we just sat and watched movies. Ya what one. Oh The Terminator (ya that has English class potential LOL) the ones you meet at meet the teacher night and you can see that disinterested glazed over look in their eyes.
Plus a few years after the kid is out of high school, a percentage of the questionnaires just won't come back because neither the child or parent cares. And yes some will come back gushing with hate, because of personality conflicts. But I guarantee you will see a trend a large percentage will show the worst teachers over and over and over again. And over and over you will hear how that one teacher changed the students life and turned them around in a subject.
You could easily throw away maybe the bottom 5% of the survey to get rid of just personality conflicts, but if 50% of a survey comes back 2 - 3 years out of high school saying teacher so and so was the absolute worst i have ever had. Likely, one would hope, the kid and parents have been through quite a few teachers, hopefully more as the kid went to college, or university and experienced an array of teaching styles. And still that one bad teacher sticks out in both the student and parents minds. The one that didn't try and teach, or worse was the anti teacher that made your kid turn away from an interest in the subject. Then that teacher needs to be scrutinized, evaluated and probably fired. And those ones that changed kids and inspired them they need to be paid more and commended and kept for their good work.
Really? a the general paddled his desk chair eh? you sure that was you?
Because sounds like the 1984 movie "Teachers"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088242/
He may not be afraid of death, but I'm sure they can find something he is afraid of to draw out the suffering until he does die in the wastelands of Siberia.
So with your plan everybody setting their clock to the true time via UTC, you would have me change my watch because I drove to a town an hour West? or an hour East?
That's why we made the timezones, the railways needed a standard time that they could rely on, no different time for every hick burg town 10min further down the rail.
The sunspot cycle effects the Ozone layer, the change in wavelength produced with and without the sunspots changes the ratio of visible to UV light emmited by the sun.
The change in ratio of visible to UV light changes the density of Ozone produced, which is produced when visible light hits oxygen. and destroyed with the UV hitting ozone. the change in the ozone, allows more uv light to hit the earth, and therefore for the trees to get a different spectrum and grow faster.
Crichton may be an author of fiction, but he makes valid observations about the previous mistakes of science.
It's not like this is a new idea that Crichton is suggesting. Doctors used to use leaches to cure people, and consensus at the time said that was right. As Kerry Mullis (a great scientist is my opinion) said. 'Newton may have been a jackass and a jerk, but we have newton's laws because he did scientific experiments that anyone can duplicate over and over and get the same result newton did. That is the basis of science.'
There's nothing wrong with questioning science, and demanding proof that is the basis of science.
This is exactly the kind of response I expected. These topics always bring out people with a political agenda skewing their science.
Unfortunatly those are all great details of the trees, but you just missed the big picture of the forest.
The Ozone hole is a natural phenomenon, a cycle of nature.
The hole is simply a product of a naturally thinning ozone layer, and cold air displacement. And these theories of CFC's eating the spare Oxygen molecules are a ridiculous stretch. No matter the concentrations of CFCs that your theory says might actually make it to the stratosphere, (dubious at best) it is still outnumbered billions to one by O1 and O2 that will more likely form O3 than become entangled with the CFCs.
First the ozone hole over Antarctica. Is just idiotic. Sure it's there, but here's why.
Ozone is produced by sunlight striking oxygen in the stratosphere, it splits and forms a heavy bluish gas O3 Ozone.
Ozone is destroyed by UV radiation striking O3 in the stratosphere, breaking it back into single O, which then instantly forms into a combination of O2 and O3.
Ozone is like the froth of water at the beach, it's always going to be there. You have to completely remove the water, or remove the beach to get rid of it. And just like the beach the amount of froth depends on the waves coming in, they change on a cycle with the tide. Well the sunlight striking the earth changes too. It's a 100 and some odd year cycle. The peak of that cycle was 1995. right around the time scientists noticed the thinning and holes. As we move away from 1995 the thinning will continue to go away, the holes fill in, and the planet cool until 100 years from now it will be global cooling not global warming on everyone's lips.
Most of the ozone is produced over the equator, because it receives more consistant sunlight. So the Ozone that is produced is warm.
Antarctica is a huge deep massive sheet of ice. It produces a very cold air above and around it. (Sailors discribe it as an instantanious wall, warm one second then get out the parka the next when sailing to Antarctica.) It's dark 6 months or so of the year because it's above the antarctic circle.
Cold air displaces warm air. That's why a hot air balloon can float.
The cold air of antarctica displaces the warm ozone out of the area. Since it's dark for the 'winter' months, no ozone is produced because no sunlight hits the area.
Scientists have repeatedly stated, that the hole seems to fill in around October. (antarctic spring) and reform in March or April (the onset of winter).
The hole isn't going anywhere, it's exists only because of the cold air.
The north pole does not contain anywhere near as much ice, so does not experience the wall of cold that antarctica gets, so it is only thinning there during the winter months when it's dark.
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Carots being good for vision, was a WWII rumor started by the British to try and hide the fact that they had radar.
Back in the 70s I watched popeye, But all I got out of it was candy cigarettes, and I recall I convinced my parents to get me a corn cob pipe. Think maybe that's why the popularity of that cartoon went down with politically correct movement and the smoking bans?
Totally agree, there is a big difference to giving a calculator to someone who already knows how to do the math by hand, than giving it to someone who doesn't know how to do the math by hand in the first place.
It doesn't help you learn, and really can hinder the learing. If you only learn the trick and not the trade, you've learned nothing.
Being a motorcyclist I have also had trouble with induction rings.
The trick is to identify the ring, by the cut in the road.
Then to ride up one cut side of the ring as quickly as possible and stop abruptly at the end. If it's a double loop, the trick is to ride up the middle cut in the road.
And induction ring is creating a current like a motor does. But your bike, or my motorcycle is the magnet or metal in the motor, and the ring of wire is the coil. The speed and amount of metal makes a difference in the amount of current created.
Apparently once your stopped if you lean your bike over the ring, almost laying it down, it will help increase the current in the ring, changing the traffic signal.
My concern is, that even if they wanted to Monsanto has sued the seed cleaners, and public seed stores into the ground. Farmers used to plant hundreds of varieties of Corn and Soy and then keep and wash the seeds to plant them next year. But we are loosing the technology and the strains of plants to be able to do that. This could just be the beginning. Thank goodness it's only weeds that are resistant. Once it's a pest to the crop, which will come soon enough all the corn is vulnerable, all the Soy is vulnerable because they are all the same strain now across the whole country. What I have done, and what I encourage others to do. Boycott Monsanto, don't buy their roundup products. Buy Organic, you'd be amazed what your purchasing decisions tells the agribusiness. You CAN make them change. Great movie FOOD INC. just came out recently watch it and see where your food is coming from.
First. "There are no such things as kids who can't learn, just teachers that can't teach" Every teacher hears that in teachers college. Some kids learn differently but they all learn, the teacher just needs to put the effort in finding out how each kid learns. Second you should do a survey, 2-3 years after the kid has graduated, to both the parent and the student. Ask who are the best teachers you (or your child) had while in high school, and tell us why. And who are the worst teachers you (or your child) had while in high school. As a parent we know the bad teachers, the lazy ones that put no effort into teaching. The ones where our kids come home every day. Oh what did you learn? oh we just sat and watched movies. Ya what one. Oh The Terminator (ya that has English class potential LOL) the ones you meet at meet the teacher night and you can see that disinterested glazed over look in their eyes. Plus a few years after the kid is out of high school, a percentage of the questionnaires just won't come back because neither the child or parent cares. And yes some will come back gushing with hate, because of personality conflicts. But I guarantee you will see a trend a large percentage will show the worst teachers over and over and over again. And over and over you will hear how that one teacher changed the students life and turned them around in a subject. You could easily throw away maybe the bottom 5% of the survey to get rid of just personality conflicts, but if 50% of a survey comes back 2 - 3 years out of high school saying teacher so and so was the absolute worst i have ever had. Likely, one would hope, the kid and parents have been through quite a few teachers, hopefully more as the kid went to college, or university and experienced an array of teaching styles. And still that one bad teacher sticks out in both the student and parents minds. The one that didn't try and teach, or worse was the anti teacher that made your kid turn away from an interest in the subject. Then that teacher needs to be scrutinized, evaluated and probably fired. And those ones that changed kids and inspired them they need to be paid more and commended and kept for their good work.
Really? a the general paddled his desk chair eh? you sure that was you? Because sounds like the 1984 movie "Teachers" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088242/
He may not be afraid of death, but I'm sure they can find something he is afraid of to draw out the suffering until he does die in the wastelands of Siberia.
They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time.
remember what Admiral Ackbar said... "It's a trap!"
So with your plan everybody setting their clock to the true time via UTC, you would have me change my watch because I drove to a town an hour West? or an hour East? That's why we made the timezones, the railways needed a standard time that they could rely on, no different time for every hick burg town 10min further down the rail.
The sunspot cycle effects the Ozone layer, the change in wavelength produced with and without the sunspots changes the ratio of visible to UV light emmited by the sun. The change in ratio of visible to UV light changes the density of Ozone produced, which is produced when visible light hits oxygen. and destroyed with the UV hitting ozone. the change in the ozone, allows more uv light to hit the earth, and therefore for the trees to get a different spectrum and grow faster.
I agree with the article.
Crichton may be an author of fiction, but he makes valid observations about the previous mistakes of science.
It's not like this is a new idea that Crichton is suggesting. Doctors used to use leaches to cure people, and consensus at the time said that was right.
As Kerry Mullis (a great scientist is my opinion) said. 'Newton may have been a jackass and a jerk, but we have newton's laws because he did scientific experiments that anyone can duplicate over and over and get the same result newton did. That is the basis of science.'
There's nothing wrong with questioning science, and demanding proof that is the basis of science.
This is exactly the kind of response I expected. These topics always bring out people with a political agenda skewing their science.
Unfortunatly those are all great details of the trees, but you just missed the big picture of the forest.
The Ozone hole is a natural phenomenon, a cycle of nature.
The hole is simply a product of a naturally thinning ozone layer, and cold air displacement. And these theories of CFC's eating the spare Oxygen molecules are a ridiculous stretch. No matter the concentrations of CFCs that your theory says might actually make it to the stratosphere, (dubious at best) it is still outnumbered billions to one by O1 and O2 that will more likely form O3 than become entangled with the CFCs.
First the ozone hole over Antarctica. Is just idiotic. Sure it's there, but here's why. Ozone is produced by sunlight striking oxygen in the stratosphere, it splits and forms a heavy bluish gas O3 Ozone. Ozone is destroyed by UV radiation striking O3 in the stratosphere, breaking it back into single O, which then instantly forms into a combination of O2 and O3. Ozone is like the froth of water at the beach, it's always going to be there. You have to completely remove the water, or remove the beach to get rid of it. And just like the beach the amount of froth depends on the waves coming in, they change on a cycle with the tide. Well the sunlight striking the earth changes too. It's a 100 and some odd year cycle. The peak of that cycle was 1995. right around the time scientists noticed the thinning and holes. As we move away from 1995 the thinning will continue to go away, the holes fill in, and the planet cool until 100 years from now it will be global cooling not global warming on everyone's lips. Most of the ozone is produced over the equator, because it receives more consistant sunlight. So the Ozone that is produced is warm. Antarctica is a huge deep massive sheet of ice. It produces a very cold air above and around it. (Sailors discribe it as an instantanious wall, warm one second then get out the parka the next when sailing to Antarctica.) It's dark 6 months or so of the year because it's above the antarctic circle. Cold air displaces warm air. That's why a hot air balloon can float. The cold air of antarctica displaces the warm ozone out of the area. Since it's dark for the 'winter' months, no ozone is produced because no sunlight hits the area. Scientists have repeatedly stated, that the hole seems to fill in around October. (antarctic spring) and reform in March or April (the onset of winter). The hole isn't going anywhere, it's exists only because of the cold air. The north pole does not contain anywhere near as much ice, so does not experience the wall of cold that antarctica gets, so it is only thinning there during the winter months when it's dark.