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A few days ago, Ritva mentioned Finnish teachers. Then, as I was driving home from a meeting late last night, on the radio (BBC R4) was a very long piece on the excellent quality of Finnish education -- apparently it fails very few pupils as compared to the rest of Europe, produces the most literate 15yr olds in the world, and generally does well. It's apparent weakness is apparently in real
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Stephen Tonkin
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Humanities
Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> and another one
> I really can't class anywhere...
Possible clue in the image filename?
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Stephen Tonkin
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Humanities
Read the horse's mouth, as it were (every author should!):
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
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Stephen Tonkin
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Paper Lens
Ritva Kurittu Wrote:
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> well, Stephen, most of the Finnish teachers do not
> agree with you!
And I imagine that most UK teachers would agree with them, but then, for most, it is merely a reaction as very few have actually studied the phenomenon properly. Which is why I referred to what we were told by a linguist (who had made a st
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Stephen Tonkin
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Paper Lens
Warwick L Nixon Wrote:
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> It's not what he could see but what he did with
> what he saw
Possibly, but it is remarkably simple to train that portion of one's visual system that lies behind the retina. Amateur astronomers learn this. You can see the effect take place over a matter of minutes. Sit half a dozen people in a
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
MJ Thomas, you wrote:
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> Chances are the eyesight of your average AE
> surveyor was a lot keener than ours is on
> average.
What evidence have you for this?
> Can't prove it, of course, but I think its a point
> worth keeping in mind.
#1. If it is evidence-free speculation, it is not worth keeping it in m
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> the
> advent of that awful phenomenon 'texting',
Ignorant judgementalism?
* Texting is a very convenient method of communication.
* A while ago I was at a conference on youngsters and ICT, where a linguist informed us that the language kids use for texting is developing all the characteristic
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Stephen Tonkin
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Paper Lens
Good to see someone else actually try things out.
Your precision is going to be limited by he resolution of your eye which, at the fovea for point objects, is about 1 minute of arc for people with good eyesight. This equates to about 2.5 inches at 9000 inches. You can better this by having linear alignment markers of very good contrast.
For your second experiment, the longer the pole, the m
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
And the difference between America and natural yoghurt? The yoghurt has a viable culture.
What do you call:
A person who speaks more than 3 languages properly? Multiligual.
A person who speaks 3 languages properly? Trilingual
A person who speaks 2 languages properly? Biligual
A person who speaks 1 language properly? British
A person who speaks no languages properly? American.
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Stephen Tonkin
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Coffee Shop
Don Barone Wrote:
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> I am well aware it was the square of
> the first three numbers.
Then I can only wonder why you tried to pretend it was something else!
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
Don Barone Wrote:
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> it appears to be about 1 by 2 by 9 but that would
> be way too close to the monolith in 2001: A Space
> Odyssey wouldn't it ?
Only in the minds of deceptive numerologists, not least because the 2001 one was 1 by 4 by 9.
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
Anthony Wrote:
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> Why aren't there more "American" jokes in here?
Most of them post exclusively on the pseudohistory boards nowadays.
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Stephen Tonkin
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Coffee Shop
Stephanie Wrote:
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> Want to send me a link in pm (if it's not
> suitable for the board itself)?
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Stephen Tonkin
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Coffee Shop
Ah. You've obviously missed the recent cartoon furore in Europe!
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Stephen Tonkin
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Coffee Shop
Stephanie Wrote:
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> And real history is somehow free from possibility
> of any harm?
This looks suspiciously like a tu quoque fallacy!
For the record: I don't think anyone has asserted that about real history. What I was examining was MJ Thomas's inane assertion that alternative history is harmless.
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
MJ Thomas, you wrote:
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> In my opinion, you, Pierre, and Anthony are trying
> to discredit Alternative Historians by playing the
> Race card.
You are, of course, entitled to whatever opinion you want. In my case you are wrong (and I imagine that I am also speaking fopr Anthony and Pierre). I am merely offering my opinion of wh
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
Pacal Wrote:
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> Besides I thought the point was that "Alternative
> History", was not necessarily "harmless", not that
> Cremo et al were racists.
Exactly so.
Also, I was amused to note the blatant red herring in which my assertion of not necessarily "harmless" was misrepresented as adv
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
MJ Thomas, you wrote:
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> I did not say 'that disseminating palpable nonsense does no harm,'
>
> I said that "these books..." - meaning specifically the Alternative History books
> Archaeological Fantasies and Forbidden History that are under discussion here, and, by
> implication, books such as Fing
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
IMO the pseudohistory was not necessarily a "cause" but was a "sine qua non" (one of several) that led to Nazism developing the way it did. Goebbels was deeply steeped in it, for example.
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
Theres some stuff by Nicholas Goodricke-Clarke (spelling?) that covers a lot of it. The Vril/Thule stuf was linked, but it was Ariosophy that was grasped wholeheartedly by many leading Nazis. One of the tasks of the Ahnenerbe, AAUI, was to find evidence of of the Aryan Herrenrasse.
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> These books are not hurting anybody.
>
> People are free to believe or disbelieve what they
> wish.
You are certainly free to believe that disseminating palpable nonsense does no harm, despite the fact that it is quite simply not true. Perhaps you would like to explain to us how pseudohistorical
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
Stephanie Wrote:
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> lol, hey, it was the best thing that my mom,
> sister and I could think of for those old paper
> towel or wrapping paper tubes.
You obviously don't get Blue Peter over there:
2 cardboard rolls + 1 aluminium Indian take-away container + 30cm dental floss + 1 orange juice carton + 4 bottle tops + 1 ca
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Stephen Tonkin
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Coffee Shop
Stephanie Wrote:
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Swords are just so passé!
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Coffee Shop
Simon Wrote:
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> The explanation I still clearly
> remember being given by a game warden was that its
> when there is lots of sand in the atmosphere -
> that it effectively turns the curve of the
> atmosphere into a magnifying glass. I've always
> been a bot suspicious of that explanation -
Justifiably so -- i
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Stephen Tonkin
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Laboratory
Again, instead of responding with a list of substantive differences between the Nazi/Thule notion of ubermensch and the late 20th century notion of a "lost global advanced civilisation", you launch on another of your ruddy proto-kippers.
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Stephen Tonkin
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Humanities
MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> I fail to see the sense...
Your failure to see something does not equate to its non-existence.
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Stephen Tonkin
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Ancient History
Bart Wrote:
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> Do you happen to know whether the Antikythera
> mechanism has been used in Technology classes in
> high schools?.
I haven't a clue, sorry.
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Stephen Tonkin
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Coffee Shop
John Wall Wrote:
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> Ebay/PayPal are on the proverbial "nice little
> earner" imho.
Indeed. But, if they weren't, they'd not do it.
>
> Is any of Bob's stuff any good - or is it the
> usual **** ?
Oh, the usual. Interesting if you want to follow his "development".
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Stephen Tonkin
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Coffee Shop
I've decided to pass on some old sets of astronomy magazines (Sky&Tel, PopAst, etc.), mostly priced so as to be effectively postage only. FUll list at:
Of particular interest to people here might be:
A full set of AA&ES. This is the magazine where people like Bauval published some of their early articles.
The Astronomy& Geophysics issue with the superb analysis of the
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Stephen Tonkin
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Coffee Shop
Thanks Doug -- and also thanks for anticipating the question "but why 'bee'?" which lurched to mind as I started reading your post.
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