The fact that there are unknown effects from GMO foods doesn't mean we should stop researching GMOs completely... It just means we probably shouldn't introduce GMOs into the wild without a lot more scrutiny.
There's also the phenomenon that energy-saving tactics tend to backfire by encouraging people to use more energy than the amount they saved. It's sorta like drinking diet soda but then eating more big macs to reward your good drink choice.
Eric, Good points. On top of what you suggest, the subject matter of what is taught also makes a difference. I'd think that what might work for teaching calculus might not work for teaching French...
Ultimately, technology will likely allow students to learn at their own pace using whatever style they choose. So perhaps by analyzing Khan Academy statistics, we'll find out that 73% of students prefer to learn math with visual aids and pick up math skills faster using graphs/etc -- or something along those lines....
So there may be ways to determine if teaching/learning styles exist (or matter at all) -- without resorting to unethical methods of teaching. :P
Eric, without doing any research of my own, I'd guess that there are probably a several different "brain groups" in a human population -- where some brains learn more effectively using certain methods than others -- but that it's very difficult to determine which group a brain belongs to because it's impractical to "teach/learn via a single method" even for a brief study.
(And maybe they need to do a study where they observe students learning subjects that are very difficult to learn -- to see how some succeed/fail at physics/etc...)
hmm. depends on how you define "bicycle" -- if you mean a thing with two wheels that a person could ride -- around the late 1700s. But if you mean something that had pedals.. then it's more like the mid-1800s.
I tend to agree with you that GMO foods aren't so different from other human farming techniques like cross-breeding, etc... but the chemical industry wasn't well regulated for a long time and the environment suffered a bit as we spewed all sorts of stuff into the atmosphere without caring/knowing what the long-term effects might be. Perhaps we should be a little more cautious with biological agents -- since once we produce them, they might reproduce on their own without any nice ways to stop them.
I'm not exactly sure how they've encoded the messages in DNA (tl;dr), but the DNA itself shouldn't be destroyed when the bacteria die off (unless those dead bacteria are consumed by other organisms which chemically break down the encoded-message DNA)...
Why would anyone think that using organic matter to encode messages is a good idea?
Stuff written on paper can be erased, burned, photocopied...
All information is subject to accidental destruction, right? The DNA of microbes contains some of the oldest information of life for our planet... so why not try to store information in DNA? The problem might be that the message could get corrupted, but is the rate of DNA corruption that much faster than other storage media?
Hmm. I wonder how many metals can be made into nearly transparent thin foils..? Gold films 0.00013 mm thick are see-thru, so maybe there's a metallic glass film that could be made?
If the buffet is all-you-can-eat... then that'd be a loophole for the death penalty as long as you can continuously keep eating... :P
The alternative solution that other states adopt is to just say their inmates' last meals have a maximum cost of $40 (or some other amount). (Or some states just don't have a death penalty....)
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Ultimately, technology will likely allow students to learn at their own pace using whatever style they choose. So perhaps by analyzing Khan Academy statistics, we'll find out that 73% of students prefer to learn math with visual aids and pick up math skills faster using graphs/etc -- or something along those lines....
So there may be ways to determine if teaching/learning styles exist (or matter at all) -- without resorting to unethical methods of teaching. :P
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(And maybe they need to do a study where they observe students learning subjects that are very difficult to learn -- to see how some succeed/fail at physics/etc...)
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Stuff written on paper can be erased, burned, photocopied...
All information is subject to accidental destruction, right? The DNA of microbes contains some of the oldest information of life for our planet... so why not try to store information in DNA? The problem might be that the message could get corrupted, but is the rate of DNA corruption that much faster than other storage media?
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