Posts by Islander
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Peter Graham,
One thing I would love to see taught at all schooling levels: the simple fact that science is *the* best tool, *the* best lens our kind of humans have ever invented - after language.
I am an expert IN language - I deeply know its currents/moods/quirks & 'suades (mainly in English, but quite a bit in Maori) and how I can use it. Ideal schooling teaches both- -
Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Hmmm, looks - long-dropish...
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In other sort-of-evil-empire builders news -Gina Rinehart has sold down most of her stake, to remain with 15%...
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Love ’em – and the general gazing ambience!
(Mind you, if you lounged outside here tonight =-2 C at the moment = you’d stand a fair bloody chance of being dead apopo- but the stars are piercingly clear and the night -so still…):)
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Richard Grevers,
Love it!
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Stars overwhelm - when you see them without other light-distraction-
remind us of how very small we are (and how tiny our home-) -
Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Lilith __,
but don’t most people blunder around a bit before they find the right thing?
Well, speaking for me & mine- yep.
A lot of my siblings were attracted to the health field - I hated the very idea. I knew I could write, I knew I could speak, and I knew I could commit various forms of art...50 years later, I am still wondering/worrying about what it is that I do...but
I do know an indecently large amount about medical matters.
And I really know that I hate the commercial writing & art set up- -
Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
It’s part of the same long, slow cultural tragedy that sees managerialism eventually destroying the ethos and, well, point of every institution it invades.
Ae, yes indeedy, many +1s
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to izogi,
Thanks izogi!
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Nah - Thingo Joyce-