Posts by chris
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Lucy Stewart,
I for one fully appreciate the detail you've gone into over the past few days Lucy, I've learnt tons.
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to BenWilson,
The problem of making students think about the financial outcomes of their education affects ALL student numbers in the impecunious subjects. I actually care about ALL people, rather than just brilliant people, who I think have considerably less need than most people to be given extra advantages. We already give them far, far more help than other people. This is not tall poppy syndrome, it’s my sense of fairness and social responsibility.
Well put Ben, the student loan and allowance scheme only holds so much sway in terms of career guidance. With student loans, Governments are investing primarily in aspiration – risky stuff.
My gripe (in keeping with the current draft bill targeted loan sharks and fringe lenders.) is the lack of guardian consent required by the lender soliciting minors: -
OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Bart Janssen,
Oh and BTW Darwin’s contribution wasn’t a Theory of evolution it was the Theory of natural selection.
Thank you Bart.
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Yes all the live music on the streets and in the parks and compounds is chaotically beautiful: view out the window.
On Topic - taobao.com
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Chris Waugh,
I love the passion with which some of those folk slam their cards down onto whatever surface they're playing on, very cartoonish. a beat for the birdsong.
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two people came up with well-developed theories of evolution at roughly the same time. One of them just had better publicists.
Certainly, and speaking the lingua franca also helps, if Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had only been British....
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Charles Darwin rated himself as a B-grader.
That's still rather high given his pedigree:
"Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!"
"the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved"
Erasmus Darwin Zoonomia (1794–1796)
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o and before I forget some "music" is here:
http://thepedallingmachinegunner.bandcamp.com/
Thanks for pointing me in the direction of that site Russell, it's the T.
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But perhaps you can revive it by posying your own clips.
thanks Sacha. I'm working blind, it's all blocked.
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You & family ever get back to the South, please allow me & mine to host you-
I'm incredibly moved by your invitation, in itself reason to cross the strait, I can't say when, but it will happen. Ehara koe i a ia!
