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They mentioned something about overhead electrical cables.

They assume that the purpose of study is to pass tests.

It is axiomatic around here that large corporations cannot change, except by acquiring start-ups. Why? Because any organisation with more than N employees starts to behave unconsci…

This is an illustration of Sturgeon's Law.

OK, good point -- by all means enjoy having defended yourself. Just don't enjoy inflicting suffering on others (lest you become a bully yourself).

Having got the three guys off your back, how do you feel then?

Sure, getting physical may sometimes be necessary. It's worth adding that it's important not to enjoy it . (Maybe this is how new bullies are formed?)

>Defend yourself and the innocent fully, but don't think that means you can't also love your enemy Let me add the rationale: if you don't try to love your enemy, or try see somethi…

I believe in gradual change. Ending the extrajudicial punishment of children is not such a big step, because it entails only a small extension of human status (having already incor…

It sounds crazy, doesn't it? Of course, the idea of not punishing one's wife after she had done something which she understood to be wrong, once upon a time, also sounded crazy. Th…

For their own good: locking children up in schools; telling them what to learn; coercing them in the name of health and education; punishing children at home. These things won't ha…

>underlying sense of panic Indeed. Quality thinking can't be forced or managed. I really do feel that this time management business is a will-o'-the-wisp. Time spent thinking about…

Premise: learning is fun. Premise: school children are bored. Conclusion: learning is not taking place in schools. This seems as true now as it has ever been. The belief that schoo…

>People know that vegetables can improve health More like: we were cajoled and coerced into eating vegetables by our parents, who were in turn cajoled by their parents, etc. We the…

>No down voting: So people will not lose karma just for having an opposing view. Still better would be to make downvoting cost one point to the downvoter. This would discourage rat…

>keep electronic media, especially video games and recreational Internet, under control (that is to say, almost completely absent). Then fill your shelves with good books. The prob…

>why did the obesity crisis only come about in the last part of 20th century I can guess at two factors. Firstly, food started to get really cheap in the 1960s. Secondly, and not e…

$59 could also buy folic acid, vitamin d3 and choline capsules. There's a simple exercise you can do in the final weeks of pregnancy to encourage your baby to lie in the optimal po…

I am one of the few who (I believe) has made a transition from 'high latent inhibition' to 'low latent inhibition'. It happened through no intention of mine and was quite a scary e…

Thankfully there are now some door safety devices on the market, for example: http://www.fingersafe.com

It's been speculated that Sidis's intelligence was due in part to having thin-walled blood vessels in the brain, making it easy for nutrients like oxygen to diffuse into brain cell…