Posts by James Butler
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And then there are the ones that have a space for the occupation of the father, but not the mother
My 1982 NZ birth certificate has no space for my Mother's occupation, but it's typed in there anyway, over the top of the next bit of text. Can't do that on a web form.
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So should we be teaching students that light is a particle or a wave?
That's an unfortunate choice of example, as physicists have known for nearly a century that waves and particles are just different manifestations of the same phenomenon... the real point is that "fairness" and "balance" in science education needs to be judged on something other than the number of newspaper column inches devoted to two opposing sides of the argument. Number of column inches of peer-reviewed research, maybe?
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Good for unintentional hiliarity, though.
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... doormats with 'There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1' written on them.
What, "There's No Place Like loopback"? I'll have "There's No Place Like ~"