Tag: experiential education
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What you mean EVERYONE?
This BBC piece on Sammy starts with an obnoxious headline: Everyone got duped by Sam’s big gamble What you mean Everyone, dupe man? I wasn’t duped by any of the bitcoin shit. Plenty of others with bigger voices weren’t duped, and we all tried to tell EVERYONE that EVERYONE is a goddamn fool. This has…
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Would be nice but can’t happen
A new “study” finds an obvious fact of life but misuses it dangerously. = = = = = START QUOTE: With polarization and misinformation on the rise, new research explores a solution using interactive data visualization to inform and engage readers. Getting readers of a news story interested in numbers can be a challenge. But…
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Zenith leftover
(Redated and reposted) This duplex should have gone in the Zenith set. At that time I showed the Trans-Oceanic in a generic house. Now I’ve made the proper duplex, so will more or less repeat the text with proper pictures. The duplex also has a coffee connection and a printing connection, so it does fit…
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Oldest rule
Another example of my oldest rule and oldest passion, endlessly repeated in this blog. As I animate electrotyping and stereotyping, I’m having trouble with the chemical aspects. One of the source articles made an error which was probably simple and obvious. I couldn’t spot it until I read several other explanations. I took chemistry in…
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What for?
Tara Henley, former CBC reporter who turned independent, interviews Eric Kaufmann. He’s trying to set up a School of Heterodox Social Science within an existing British college. He offers a balanced and rational approach to the whole mess of Cancel and Woke and such, recognizing that censorship and orthodoxy are permanent in academia. As I…
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Substack in 1830
In 1896 William Dean Howells, known today as one of Twain’s associates, wrote a brief remembrance of his father’s country newspaper in the 1840s and 1850s. This was in Ashtabula at the northeast edge of Ohio. He discussed the Patent Insides, which were dominant in 1896: = = = = = START HOWELLS: Twice or…
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Learning requires stability.
In previous item about the history of stereotyping as it related to Kellogg’s Patent Insides, I was quoting a 1927 book by George Kubler. He understood how psychopathic chaos halts all learning and genuine innovation. = = = = = START QUOTE: Writing of books by hand continued to be the only method practiced throughout…
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Goddamnit, why do we learn so much harmful shit?
One of the rather annoying world traveler types on Substack was discussing the Italian habit of walking IMMEDIATELY after eating. This violates everything we ever learned from TV and doctors and school “health” classes. They STERNLY commanded us to wait at least 30 minutes after eating. Recently I tried the Italian way. It’s unquestionably better.…
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Three types
In the ’50s Manhattan had three types of work. K-State, local businesses, and Fort Riley. (The enlisted men lived on base, so the Manhattan residents were mostly officers.) The offspring of those three groups were distinctly different. Business sons were ADULT. They acted like grownups, and knew how the world worked. Prof sons were not…
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Wallace’s father and radio
Henry Wallace followed in his father’s footsteps in some ways, and tried to erase his father’s footsteps in other ways. Henry Senior was a farmer who turned into a writer and researcher on agriculture, then turned into Harding’s sec of ag. Henry Junior started as a writer and researcher and businessman in ag, then turned…
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Always wait for experience
You shouldn’t try to think about areas where you have no experience. This week’s “news” includes a pop artist who stopped her show and lectured the audience for taking selfies in the crowd. I have ZERO EXPERIENCE with pop concerts or selfies, so I didn’t have a REAL opinion. My first STUPID inclination was to…
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Kirn loses it
Katharine Boyle said: The decline in liberal arts degrees bodes well for society on almost every dimension. College students now know that majoring in Book Club won’t get you a great job. This is progress. Kirn snotted back: “On almost every dimension” isn’t English, brainiac. Close, but not quite. And what would know about dimensions…
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Had me at “parole”…
Nikki Haley got another donation from me. She’s hopelessly hawkish on war, but she accomplshed ALL the right things as governor of SC. In a speech she mentioned that SC had been reliant on textiles, and collapsed when our robber barons sent textiles to China. She got revenge by attracting factories from Japanese and German…
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Breaking Parkinson
Discovery Institute, the defender of Intelligent Design, has been drifting into Parkinsonian triviality, making annoying movies and podcasts, and writing pointless arguments. I don’t know the cause, but suspect it’s part of the same trend that is collapsing bitcoin and wokedom. Discovery has a few tech-tyrant patrons whose worldview is not the same as Bezos…
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Motives vs motes
In response to the latest shift in UFO hemlines, smart people are speculating on the motives of aliens who send rockets a million light years through space and then crash repeatedly. We should first ask why WE wanted to play the space game in the ’50s and ’60s. It made no sense and had no…
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