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Comment Re:Asking the right question (Score 1) 747

True, but the science done in the 1970s, after a 40 year trend of cooling, all showed that the world was cooling, and that carbon emissions from cars and smoke stacks was causing the cooling. They predicted an ice age approaching if the world cooled 4 degrees globally. Now the science is, after a 35 year trend of warming, all showing warming and that carbon emissions from cars and smoke stacks is causing the warming, they are predicting horrible storms and some sort of glacial ice melted waterworld. Sounds like somebody has not enough variables in their climate model, and doesn't really know how things work after all.

Comment My elementry school (Score 1) 287

That's so funny, this is the elementary school i went to as a kid. In the time of drab boxy brick boxes painted institutional green, this was an open concept designed school, the library had 30 foot ceilings with a small sunfish style sailboat in it for an interesting place to read. It's education program was as progressive as it's design... Sad to see that they've gone from that, to this sort of idiocy. What's next FM radio waves are causing brain cancer? What about HDTV air broadcasts, maybe that's why the kids in 2020 will have ADHD. LOL

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 305

Totally agree, there is a big difference to giving a calculator to someone who already knows how to do the math by hand, than giving it to someone who doesn't know how to do the math by hand in the first place.

  It doesn't help you learn, and really can hinder the learing. If you only learn the trick and not the trade, you've learned nothing.

Comment Induction rings in the road. (Score 1) 328

Being a motorcyclist I have also had trouble with induction rings.
The trick is to identify the ring, by the cut in the road.
Then to ride up one cut side of the ring as quickly as possible and stop abruptly at the end. If it's a double loop, the trick is to ride up the middle cut in the road.

And induction ring is creating a current like a motor does. But your bike, or my motorcycle is the magnet or metal in the motor, and the ring of wire is the coil. The speed and amount of metal makes a difference in the amount of current created.
Apparently once your stopped if you lean your bike over the ring, almost laying it down, it will help increase the current in the ring, changing the traffic signal.

Comment Monsanto is EVIL! (Score 1) 435

My concern is, that even if they wanted to Monsanto has sued the seed cleaners, and public seed stores into the ground. Farmers used to plant hundreds of varieties of Corn and Soy and then keep and wash the seeds to plant them next year. But we are loosing the technology and the strains of plants to be able to do that. This could just be the beginning. Thank goodness it's only weeds that are resistant. Once it's a pest to the crop, which will come soon enough all the corn is vulnerable, all the Soy is vulnerable because they are all the same strain now across the whole country. What I have done, and what I encourage others to do. Boycott Monsanto, don't buy their roundup products. Buy Organic, you'd be amazed what your purchasing decisions tells the agribusiness. You CAN make them change. Great movie FOOD INC. just came out recently watch it and see where your food is coming from.

Comment A survey (Score 1) 446

First. "There are no such things as kids who can't learn, just teachers that can't teach" Every teacher hears that in teachers college. Some kids learn differently but they all learn, the teacher just needs to put the effort in finding out how each kid learns. Second you should do a survey, 2-3 years after the kid has graduated, to both the parent and the student. Ask who are the best teachers you (or your child) had while in high school, and tell us why. And who are the worst teachers you (or your child) had while in high school. As a parent we know the bad teachers, the lazy ones that put no effort into teaching. The ones where our kids come home every day. Oh what did you learn? oh we just sat and watched movies. Ya what one. Oh The Terminator (ya that has English class potential LOL) the ones you meet at meet the teacher night and you can see that disinterested glazed over look in their eyes. Plus a few years after the kid is out of high school, a percentage of the questionnaires just won't come back because neither the child or parent cares. And yes some will come back gushing with hate, because of personality conflicts. But I guarantee you will see a trend a large percentage will show the worst teachers over and over and over again. And over and over you will hear how that one teacher changed the students life and turned them around in a subject. You could easily throw away maybe the bottom 5% of the survey to get rid of just personality conflicts, but if 50% of a survey comes back 2 - 3 years out of high school saying teacher so and so was the absolute worst i have ever had. Likely, one would hope, the kid and parents have been through quite a few teachers, hopefully more as the kid went to college, or university and experienced an array of teaching styles. And still that one bad teacher sticks out in both the student and parents minds. The one that didn't try and teach, or worse was the anti teacher that made your kid turn away from an interest in the subject. Then that teacher needs to be scrutinized, evaluated and probably fired. And those ones that changed kids and inspired them they need to be paid more and commended and kept for their good work.

Comment Re:How about that calendar? (Score 1) 429

So with your plan everybody setting their clock to the true time via UTC, you would have me change my watch because I drove to a town an hour West? or an hour East? That's why we made the timezones, the railways needed a standard time that they could rely on, no different time for every hick burg town 10min further down the rail.

Comment Re:GW CO2 Claims in Doubt (Score 1) 162

The sunspot cycle effects the Ozone layer, the change in wavelength produced with and without the sunspots changes the ratio of visible to UV light emmited by the sun. The change in ratio of visible to UV light changes the density of Ozone produced, which is produced when visible light hits oxygen. and destroyed with the UV hitting ozone. the change in the ozone, allows more uv light to hit the earth, and therefore for the trees to get a different spectrum and grow faster.

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