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Gary Arndt
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Gary Arndt
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Traveled around the world for 13 years. Now, the host of Everything Everywhere Daily. Learn something new every day!
Wisconsin Katılım Şubat 2007
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While we're talking Best Pictures, THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996) needs 4K Ultra HD. @Criterion? @thedigitalbits
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@erikphoel Education departments are largely academic malpractice.
In any given campus, the students in the education department will have the lowest standardized test scores, the lowest IQs, and the highest GPAs.
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How can someone believe that it's developmentally inappropriate to teach a 3-year-old what an "A" is? (this person once helped implement No Child Left Behind, btw)
Erik Hoel@erikphoel
1. "Education experts" have been saying for decades that we must wait to start teaching reading until 6-7 for neuroscientific reasons. These reasons appear, as far as I can tell, to be basically made up. Consider this recent article, which quotes a bunch of experts on this.
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@idagio_official I have a DVD-Audio disc I purchased about 20 years ago of him conducting Beethoven's 9th.
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Happy birthday to one of the most exceptional artists of our time, Daniel Barenboim. Pianist, conductor, visionary, and supporter of human rights, Barenboim has been described as a "politically committed musician." Which of his pieces do you listen to most?
Photo credit: Paul Schirnhofer / DG
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@erikphoel The number of people being "privately tutored" by anyone is very small, period.
Status and credentialing >>> knowledge
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Is there anyone in the US, right now, being *privately tutored* at a weekly level, consistently, by a mathematician good enough to have their own Wikipedia page? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_F…
I would say the answer could be yes, but the numbers are very small. If the answer were no it would not surprise me.
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"People do tutoring now!"
von Neumann's first math paper was *co-authored* with his one of his tutors, Fekete, at age 18. Fekete had been tutoring him for ~2 years or so prior.
Are there more than a dozen kids in the US right now, age 16, being privately tutored weekly by mathematicians advanced enough *in their own right* to co-author impressive original math papers? Yes or no?
Erik Hoel@erikphoel
"von," of course, is a title. He had governesses and advanced math tutors from a young age, and when he did finally go to regular school, they were some of the best schools of the time, ones that *coincidentally* produced a ton of other math geniuses.
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@michaelshermer Everything you mention is an act of destruction.
Destruction is easy. Anyone can destroy something.
Creation is orders of magnitude harder.
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Shakespeare skeptics think a relatively uneducated & common man like him could not possibly have produced some of the greatest works of literature in history. So it must have been the Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere), Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, or Queen Elizabeth.
One reason for their wrong beliefs is the proportionality bias, which I employed in my book Conspiracy: the magnitude of the event/effect should be matched by an equal-sized cause.
The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides in history, caused by the Nazis, one of the worst political regimes in history. Cognitive balance.
9/11 was the worst act of terrorism in American history, caused by...19 guys with box cutters? Cognitive dissonance. Balance: it was orchestrated by the Bush administration, the CIA, the Jews, Israel, etc.
JFK was the most powerful man on earth, cut down by...Lee Harvey Oswald, a total loser and nobody? Cognitive dissonance. Balance: it was an assassination by the CIA, the KGB, Castro, the Mafia, the MIC, etc.
Princess Diana, glamorous, beautiful, famous, influential, died by...drunk driving, speeding and not wearing her seatbelt? Cognitive dissonance. Balance: it was an assassination by the Royal family.
Shakespeare is arguably the greatest writer in the history of the English language, so we expect that he must have been one of the most educated, cultured, and sophisticated scholars in history. That he wasn't is jarring in its disproportionality between the effect and the cause.
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A one-off recording made for a swamp attack scene in a 1951 movie became a studio library asset, then a running inside joke among sound editors, then an Easter egg, and finally a piece of film folklore.
everything-everywhere.com/the-wilhelm-sc…
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