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by upvotinglurker 7y ago
If children aren't eating, the cause is most likely not being able to afford food, or not being provided with food by their parents. If teachers were to have any effect, it would be by giving the children money or food, not "hang
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by upvotinglurker 7y ago
A clearer way of stating it might be not "the euro students value their education more because it's free," but "the euro students value their education more because college attendance is determined by academic status rat
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by upvotinglurker 7y ago
From Harold McGee's fabulously scientific book On Food and Cooking[0]: "Hearts of palm are the growing stem tips of various palm trees, especially the South American peach palm Bactris gasipaes, which readily resprouts after its
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by upvotinglurker 7y ago
Small farms that keep grain-fed livestock absolutely do.
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Inflammation's hidden role in weight loss(theatlantic.com)
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by upvotinglurker 7y ago
One of these things is not like the others. Other people cannot kill me with their gay marriage or expensive coffee flavored drink.
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by upvotinglurker 7y ago
Also, even more archaically, to grains of salt - for example, those used to cure corned beef.
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
> In my experience, they typically like to pick apart others, but can't handle being picked apart. Yes. cryoshon even states in his post that he wouldn't want to be around a person like himself. So he's only allowed to int
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
Primary/secondary textbooks are not professional academic publications, and typically lag far behind the latter. Your primary/secondary teacher's behavior is not a reflection of professional archaeologists' behavior.
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
You'd have to reach a very high salary before you can buy a presidential election or gun control laws (stuff I think GP was alluding to in their post)
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
In what way? And isn't "black market company" an oxymoron?
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
Yep. The AmazonBasics brand of aspirin may appear, but it will just be putting their label on the product manufactured by the companies already specialized to manufacture it (as is probably true with a lot of existing AmazonBasics products)
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
> The original commenter's scenario talked about novice vs. experienced. It talked about novice vs. "skilled, competent" drivers, which suggests the latter meeting some threshold beyond just experience. (Making their behav
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
Yes. It seems like never having a serious health problem in your life would be the "edge case," at least if you live to be elderly.
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
This is the first time I've heard of the Sentinelese, but based on the Wikipedia articles[0], they have been observed using enough words, grammar, etc. for linguists to make hypotheses about how it is (or is not) related to and inter-i
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
> My point was more that, in this case, she is “just a librarian”, because this type of thing is what being a librarian is supposed to mean—it’s just that most people suck at being librarians, In my experience (working in an academic lib
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
I wonder what kind of liability insurance, regulatory compliance, etc. is required for a business like this (in the US, where any injury to a child seems culturally likely to lead to a lawsuit). Mom-and-pop day cares exist in my area, so cl
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
Are there numbers on the average height of those fatal falls? If they're from balconies, roofs, etc., I'd say being on a bike (a few feet from the ground) would make it much safer.
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
> I suspect adults learn languages a lot faster than kids, when we spend the same amount of time being exposed & practicing. In linguistics, it's pretty well accepted that kids learn languages faster than adults for neurological
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
Presumably their class sizes would also be a responsive part of the system (so they wouldn't be half full).
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
> So taking a year or two to figure out how to be an adult is not the worst approach to take. A year spent figuring out how to be an adult would indeed be helpful. Unfortunately, for students who are still immature and sheltered at 18, a
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
When an entire department wants a publication on paper, a single copy in a library won't serve that need (since that copy can only be in one place at once). I experienced this in college (before electronic journals were widespread) wit
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
And that's not taking into account that much of academia comprises disciplines where nothing is exactly "useful", or expected to be (e.g. arts and humanities). Metrics of worthiness in these areas are naturally going to be pr
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
Yup. One of my high school classmates was an assistant manager at the Burger King where we worked as soon as he graduated high school.
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
Very much. I watched the show for the first time by "binging" the first four seasons, just ahead of the season 5 premiere, so I went in already having heard all the buzz about the showing being "Mr. Chips to Scarface." B
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
Is that true for English language books in the age of Amazon, Goodreads, etc.?
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
> Reading almost certainly takes more activity from the reader. People who make this kind of claim seem to think "visual learning" means being shown pictures or videos (not reading) > Also your idea that visual learners trie
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
I work an administrative job at a US university, and I definitely recognize the trope of people pursuing their PhD just because they like the student lifestyle and/or don't know what else to do.
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
To the extent society needs education as civic socialization, it seems like it should be done at the pre-college level. In the US today, it is happening neither in high school nor in college (at least for most people at most high schools an
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by upvotinglurker 8y ago
> Are you a police officer? Trial attorney? Inspector General? You almost certainly should not be on social media, or exclusively posting baby pictures and acting within defined guidelines from your employer. An agent from the local mid-

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