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I wonder where you can find erratas based on the edition of education you got. (e.g., if you grew up in the 90s you should know pluto is no longer a planet) Mo
by zawerf 8y ago
I wonder where you can find erratas based on the edition of education you got. (e.g., if you grew up in the 90s you should know pluto is no longer a planet)
Mostly interested in basic scientific knowledge (say high school level) that has been updated.
- Mirioron 8y agoThat would be a great project.
- ccozan 8y agoGreat for people who might wake up from a coma. Or frozen.
- mrexroad 8y ago... as well as those who return to a subject decades after formal education. ... or those trying to have an meaningful conversation with someone from another generation. I honestly have no idea what my parents were taught in school. I’ve often wonder how much of this plays into the narratives that get exploited in politics.
- derefr 8y agoYou might be able to do something automatic using Wikipedia article version history for articles that have been “complete” for s long time. Diff them over long time-scales, generate “release notes”, summarize.
- abathur 8y agoGood point. A thoughtful, digestible source of such updates might even help undercut one source of inter-generational alienation.
- krick 8y agoLately I wanted to update my understanding of plant taxonomy to discover, that with the latest advancements (APG) kind of arbitrary, but neat taxonomy I've been taught in school is "officially" abandoned, and currently we don't seam have any (recognized) sufficiently simple to remember taxonomy at all. I wander what they teach in schools now.