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I'm very adaptable nowadays. It's just that I think I know which things should work, but I'm not fighting society, particularly not on this. The thing with giving the public what t…

I mentioned peer learning, collaboration is that. I think everyone should be capable of working alone as well, and that has been the general assumption around as far as I've notice…

A textbook should be provided for reference. Copying its contents on a blackboard isn't teaching. You still have to design your course. There's goals to meet, you have to evaluate …

The idea is becoming intellectually independent, arriving in the stage of self-pedagogy if you like. Peer learning when there's the chance. You can't realistically expect that ther…

I learnt a lot of physics from Marion's 2nd edition (not SR there though). An older and completely forgotten fine textbook is W. Hauser's Introduction to the Principles of Mechanic…

I almost wrote above that, to my knowledge and IMVHO, no one has succeeded at writing a book on Thermodynamics yet. I self-censored because that would be too flippant, wouldn't it?…

There are excellent textbooks on Classical Mechanics, probably because it's a crystal clear subject and you can give a detailed account of the essentials in a single volume without…

What's the problem with a good book, age? Baby Rudin's first edition is 70 and the latest one is from 1976. It's still widely used and will be for a while. Honestly your problem wa…

You can absolutely delude yourself with the wrong design and materials that have going for them that they're what you can afford and call it innovation and whatnot. It still is wro…

Yes, I own fields. No, the ROI isn't there so parishioners keep them for sentimental value mostly. It isn't worth it, it was but it's been decades that it's not. Of course there's …

Yes, but the thing is we have increased productivity tremendously because that's what our species does. So first we didn't need everyone working in the fields, after that we didn't…

They used these things: https://125px.com/docs/unsorted/kodak/tg2044_1_02mar99.pdf It was an automatic process and colours were consistent. I find that reading theories about what …