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If Teaching facts makes you a bad teacher, does rocking when you’re not...
A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that’s as far as he looks— Eoin Colfer On perception: One of my pet hates is when I hear educators moan about facts as if they were hazardous to health. I’ve...
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It’s a contentious issue, but I can’t help feeling the powers that be have...
It’s bows and arrows against the lightning— They ‘aven’t seen that fire-beam yet… Herbert George Wells, War of the Worlds In the Telegraph today, Douglas Carswell writes: “For years, the debate about...
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Mootax & the mood-syntax button…
I never did very well in math— I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally… Calvin Trillin Sometimes the answers lie in what we choose not to say: The calendar...
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Triboelectric Knitting: the new water-boarding for kinky OAPs…
The Alternative Advent: Day 6 And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful...
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The Hopefuel Range & the not unseens…
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for… Allan K. Chalmers I prefer to think in terms of the not-so-grand essentials that work just as well....
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Agatha Christie punks Plato; MacGyver, great inventions & perfect pencils…
A sub-continuation and tangentoid: And the greatest of all inventors is: Accidents— They happen… Plato may have been a bit of a know it all, back in the days when knowing nothing actually meant...
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A quick introduction to The Alternative Advent, update on the monkeys & an...
The Alternative Advent: Day 1 Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds— Constantly… As true as this little ditty may be, I’m a great believer in giving the mediocre mind a voice...
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If Einstein had’ve had Scurvy…
The Alternative Advent: Day 3 The Trials of Chip: Autistic boy genius… It had been Chip’s turn to impress the judges of the science fair for as long as he could remember; you were born for this he told...
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Who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without...
The Alternative Advent: Day 4 Everyone talks about the weather— But no one does anything about it… I managed to find time for a refresher shower shortly before the cat decided it was morning for the...
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Concerning socks…
The Alternative Advent: Day 5 Strange things are afoot— And far far stranger than feet… The disappearance of socks is an enduring mystery for sure. As far as phenomena go, it is quite simply the Linear...
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