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Alan Kaye seems to enjoy making asinine statements. "Teachers are taught science as a religion" "Romans had the best cement ever made" "We live in the century w
by 3minus1 12y ago
Alan Kaye seems to enjoy making asinine statements. "Teachers are taught science as a religion" "Romans had the best cement ever made" "We live in the century where the great art forms are the merging of science and engineering"
There's also a kind of arrogance when he shits on intel and djikstra that I find off-putting.
- anfedorov 12y agoOnly familiar with one of them, but "teachers are taught science as a religion" seems spot-on.
- 3minus1 12y agoI disagree. Teaching science as a series of facts is in no way akin to religious indoctrination. Edit: And Kaye is also ignoring the fact that every high school science curriculum covers the scientific method and includes hands on experimentation.
- e12e 12y agoYou've never seen how students too often get better grades on "perfect" science experiments than on honest reports of "failures" (experment differed from expected outcome)? You must've been in an elite high school.
- 3minus1 12y agoThat actually did happen to me sometimes. I don't think you can convince me that there's anything religious about it.
- david927 12y agoKay, not Kaye. Roman concrete is universally considered superior to modern concrete.
- 3minus1 12y agoSomehow I'm not surprised that this is what turns up when I google Roman concrete: > “Roman concrete is . . . considerably weaker than modern concretes. It’s approximately ten times weaker,” says Renato Perucchio, a mechanical engineer at the University of Rochester in New York. “What this material is assumed to have is phenomenal resistance over time.” http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-secrets-of-ancient-romes-buildings-234992/?no-ist= http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-secrets-of-ancient...