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StringJunky

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  1. StringJunky replied to iNow's topic in Politics
    Ah gotcha! I remember reading about that. Thanks.
  2. StringJunky replied to iNow's topic in Politics
    I don't get that.
  3. Thanks Janus. It would be a highly kinetic environment; catastrophic weather patterns? What would we experience gravitationally in the short term and long term from the present status of things?
  4. Have you tried 'fit to page' or 'stretch to page' (or similar) in Print Options in landscape mode?
  5. What effects on Earth would we see if its orbital velocity was balanced with Jupiter's gravity at Moon distance to maintain a stable orbit? Assume everything is as it is now and we suddenly found Earth in that situation.
  6. StringJunky replied to MSC's topic in Politics
  7. StringJunky replied to MSC's topic in Politics
    It would be highly gratifying to see the RW majority of the Court ultimately hamstrung and judicially checkmated by their own edicts. Fingers crossed.
  8. StringJunky replied to MSC's topic in Politics
    Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas?
  9. StringJunky replied to MSC's topic in Politics
    Going to need a wheelbarrow full of popcorn this time. Do you American members think this will more messy and contested than 2020? The GOP seem to be focussed on altering the rules of the game, rather than just playing it.
  10. Not a good idea to talk about all the world's problems in one thread.
  11. This whole sorry Palestine saga is based on government-approved lies and the political mental gymnastics that go with ignoring the historical facts. Money talks.
  12. No surprise there. He's a MAGA.
  13. I agree, the practice of repetition, in terms of physical tasks, promotes muscle memory, rather like a musician practices scales. They start off thinking about it, then eventually embed the knowledge neuroplastically until it becomes intuitive. They don't need to see the keys/strings/buttons because they've mapped it mentally through repetition. If you don't get something into the intuitive level, you can't move on in terms of creativity etc. This process applies to education generally as well, I think. I think diversity of input sources, rather than just consulting Google, as an example, promotes neuroplasticity. When we were at school, pre-Windows, finding sources, getting information from our sources was relatively labour intensive, but it promoted neuroplastic development because more senses were directed at a task. When we oldies (50+) hit on a problem, we can draw on a wider range of skills within ourselves and through media compared to the younger generations. Getting your information on tap just through computers is boring for our brains and I don't think it's good for students in terms of promoting neuroplasticity in the long run because there isn't enough variation in effort to maintain stimulation.. If something's boring you just want to go the least laborious route to get it out of the way. The effect of that is much less information 'sticks' at the intuitive level, with the resulting reduction in creative potential.
  14. I'm ok with that. I still think you are a good bloke... even though you are misguided. 😛
  15. But you are biased. You are firmly flying the Israeli flag in your posts. I'm biased because what I see leads me against Israel and US/UK governments actions. Those three are basically pissing in somebody elses pond.
  16. What I was getting at is that equality of opportunity is not the same as equality of ability. Inequality of ability will always be there. The selection process for the genuinely able has been hobbled to include more people at the lower ability range.
  17. Acceleration is change in velocity, and that means up or down and which way
  18. Todays students seem to have lost, or not been taught, the concept of working from first principles. TBH in my O-level years in 1977 working from first principles was dying even then when 'easier' exam boards came out, like Joint Matriculation Board exams, I found going from Cambridge exam papers to JMB papers the level of difficulty dropped significantly. There was more emphasis on multiple choice, for instance. The rot started in the UK, I think, with the end of the 11+ system, which I just missed. The trend was towards lowering the level of entry to university to be more inclusive/accessible to a larger cohort of high school students.
  19. Would the link I gave be a progression from that conclusion, having eliminated the pulse width of light, or taken it into account, and the anomaly is still there, like it says at the end:
  20. Great! I've looked for that video a few times and forgot what it was called.
  21. I don't think it will be just geopolitical, I think there will be internal strife within the NATO countries themselves as well. I see a conflict of ideologies coming to blows that transcends pure nationalism and geographical borders.

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