Gardner’s “multiple intelligences” model is a nicer way to think about intelligence, but it’s not really quantifiable in the same way. (How would you measure how “ecologically” intelligent someone is?)
It’s very appealing to think that we have some sort of “int” stat like a Dungeons and Dragons character, but I don’t think it’s really that valuable. If the IQ/the “g factor” measures anything, it’s probably something about being able to quickly process visual information. I have a relatively high IQ and think that’s the trait I have that is being measured (from the testing they did in the teen torture facility I spent my adolescence in - my high IQ meant that I was a dangerous, manipulative liar of course.)
If you have two and a half hours to spare, I think this Shaun video is a masterwork of science communication.
Aristotle wasn’t as keen on boyloving. That’s more Plato and Socrates’s Plato. (Iirc one of the dialogues is a competition, where the winner gets to kiss a slave boy and slave girl.)
You should. Extremely relaxing hobby. I sit down in front of the TV watching Star Wars, i mindlessly move my hands around, and then hours later I have a dishcloth.
It’s a great hobby because it’s super accessible and cheap. Go to Walmart, get a $2 thing of cotton yarn, $1ish on some size 8 needles, zone out watching TV, and then you have something you can clean your house with. More time means great blankets. More effort and time, and then you get something nice to wear.
Israeli soldiers wore T-shirts with a pregnant woman in cross-hairs and the slogan "1 Shot 2 Kills," adding to a growing furor in the country over allegations of misconduct by troops during the Gaza war.
"The smaller they are, the harder it is," says another shirt showing a child in a rifle sight. Soldiers wore the shirts to mark the end of basic training and other military courses and they were first reported by the Haaretz daily.
Even then, I would want them to leave π in the problem itself. That would be much better for this exercise - teaching that you report “exact” values with π still in them.
Eg, if I rewrote this problem, I would expect an answer of 1000π.
What I’m loving about this book is there’s a page or so which is like “normal people think it’s weird that we can tell individual deer apart, but seriously believe us guys, they look totally different!”
Oblivion is much more fun if you pretend that you are a normie though. All the elder scrolls games are like that - the best way to play Skyrim is as a refugee migrant farm laborer/subsistence hunter.
My dad picked up both Grave of the Fireflies and one of the Escaflowne movies when I was 9ish, thinking that cartoon=“safe.” He also gave me the first issues of Transmetropolitan around that age, so similar issues with comics=“safe.”
The solution is to put all of the uniqueness in the middle name. Then you still get to feel “special” while not forcing your kid to go by “tragedeigh” or whatever.
When I chose my name - I made my first as milquetoast and appropriate to my age as possible. My middle I went balls out - I guarantee I have a cooler middle name than you do.
With EA and Spore - SecuROM was a straight up root kit. Basically malware. Pretty sure on the Sims 2 forums there were people who had their computers bricked. (Sims 2 was already messy enough to reinstall sometimes, EA did lots of weirdness with the registry.)
Sony did something similar with music CD’s. Their elaborate scheme to prevent you from ripping your CD’s more than three times or whatever created a vulnerability that was actively exploited by malware developers.
Gardner’s “multiple intelligences” model is a nicer way to think about intelligence, but it’s not really quantifiable in the same way. (How would you measure how “ecologically” intelligent someone is?)
It’s very appealing to think that we have some sort of “int” stat like a Dungeons and Dragons character, but I don’t think it’s really that valuable. If the IQ/the “g factor” measures anything, it’s probably something about being able to quickly process visual information. I have a relatively high IQ and think that’s the trait I have that is being measured (from the testing they did in the teen torture facility I spent my adolescence in - my high IQ meant that I was a dangerous, manipulative liar of course.)
If you have two and a half hours to spare, I think this Shaun video is a masterwork of science communication.