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by sili 15y ago
I think students should be tought "how to think" and not "what to think". Teaching what to think is, to some extent, brainwashing. The problem, as you pointed out, is that institutions try to teach "how to think" but fail at it.
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by sili 15y ago
This is awesome. Finally a solution for all those white on black blogs.
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by sili 15y ago
They come to accept this as a norm. Citizens become jaded and stick to the rote path that would not make them stand out from the norm. This is a large problem for Russia's economy. Putin and Medvedev have been repeating over and over how in
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by sili 15y ago
They do such things occasionally when they can extract good domestic PR out of it.
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by sili 15y ago
Since this story is starting to make an international splash, my prediction is that there will be another, very public, investigation and trial (ordered by "the very top"). Putin or Medvedev will give a speech about importance of fighting c
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by sili 16y ago
It just struck me how nonchalant he had to be to start the first manned space flight in history of humanity with word "Poyehaly". As if he was taking a road-trip to the nearby town.
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by sili 16y ago
I like the idea of keeping people closer to what they are good at. However I'm afraid this strategy will backfire on your employees if they are forced to leave to another company for whatever reason. In an environment where every company do
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by sili 16y ago
Could the forms be a security measure? Is it really smart for your company employees to be opening hundreds of PDF and Word files sent from random strangers?
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by sili 16y ago
This is a horrible page design. It literally took me minutes to figure out where the main content of the post is and where are the navigation and info links. Add to that the fact that the first link I clicked in the main post turned out to
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by sili 16y ago
And than your wall is filled with useless spammy content.
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When you eat is as important as what you eat when working out(utexas.edu)
2 points by sili 16y ago|0 comments
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by sili 16y ago
Have you ever had a situation where you are pulling to open the door from one side and another person, unknowingly, pushing it from the other (happens often for me). I wonder what awkward position the guy on the inside would end up in in th
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by sili 16y ago
"How many managers does it take ..." joke writes itself.
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by sili 16y ago
Besides other good things about shifting teacher's work from lecturing to actually spending time with kids that were mentioned here, I would like to point out that some teachers are really bad lecturers. My most vivid impressions are from e
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by sili 16y ago
I believe if this feature takes of, the result will be a lot of sock puppet accounts on Facebook.
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by sili 16y ago
Game of Life seems to have become the new "Hello World" for trying to learn canvas. I wrote one as my first project for canvas/JavaScript.
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by sili 16y ago
That would also explain their link to the SETI project at http://37signals.com/37 . Edit: just noticed that it's also on 37th page of the site. Delightful.
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by sili 16y ago
A little off topic, but the way text is handled in this blog threw me off. The links are more prominent that the main text, they actually look the way main text should look.
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by sili 16y ago
Is there a (harmless) chemical that reacts in some visible way to radio waves? It would be interesting to spray that in the street and see a 3d representation of all different signals in the air.
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by sili 16y ago
I'm disappointed at the general trend of ranking shopping sites higher than review and information sites when searching for a product name. If I'm looking for some products, most likely I need information about it, and I don't need to be bo
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Audio slideshow: Beautiful science(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by sili 16y ago|0 comments
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by sili 16y ago
NHTSA has been convinced all along that there are no real issues with the cars and the commissioned study was really just for show. NASA is the best agency to tap for this (read superstars of science and engineering). Average Joe on the rad
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by sili 16y ago
Doesn't an idea have to have been implemented for it to count as prior art? If not, there seems to be a problem for the future. When everybody blogs and tweets their most mundane thoughts, the chance that your new invention has already been
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by sili 16y ago
Maybe the problem is expectation of privacy when we act in a public sphere (The Internet). Imagine a situation without a computer where a murder suspect with an insanity plea was seen weeks in advance browsing a gun store and asking really
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by sili 16y ago
He said there is a potential for violation if DOT and the public were misled by "engineering-quality work"- even if the authors did not claim to be engineers. I might be too literal here, but if you did not intend to mislead anyone, why s
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by sili 16y ago
In a life where you have nothing, you do not throw trash away. A lot of stuff gets re-used.
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by sili 16y ago
This is the original source of the photos in Russian.
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by sili 16y ago
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
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by sili 16y ago
I seem to notice that if one person get possession of the ball for a few kicks, he tends to kick it in a triangular path?
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by sili 16y ago
Higher definition video from NASA for those who missed the webcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj1qwDxw9nk

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