Tag: education
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“What powers a solar-powered snail?”
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Andrew Orlowski
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Boffins have slammed examiners in England for setting school children seriously dumb questions. The Royal Chemistry Society said that the science exams for 14 year olds includes questions such as, “What powers a solar-powered snail?” The Society’s chief executive Dr Richard Pike told us that while the syllabus and text books covered a broad range…
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TV tells CO2-emitting children to die early
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Andrew Orlowski
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Carbon Cult sickos are under fire for an interactive website that tells children they should die because they emit CO2. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Planet Slayer” site invites young children to take a “greenhouse gas quiz”, asking them “how big a pig are you?”. At the end of the quiz, the pig explodes, and ABC…
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Sadville is great for bubblewrap kids – BBC
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Andrew Orlowski
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TV shrink Tanya Byron blamed over-protective parents for keeping “bubble wrap” kids away from real social interaction and tethered to technology such as the internet, we reported yesterday. The government is hiring Byron to tout a “Live Consultation”, soliciting views on how the internet might affect children. That’s your taxes at work, Part One. How…
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‘Please read this important email: you are being shot’
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Andrew Orlowski
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These days, no major tragedy is complete without ambulance-chasing technology boosters muscling in on the aftermath. The Asian tsunami and the London 7/7 attacks both provided a tasteless excuse for evangelists to hype their favourite cause: instant real-time communications in general, and blogging in particular. But with the Virginia Tech massacre, the reliance on technology…
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Tim Berners-Lee says some really stupid things, then goes mad
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Andrew Orlowski
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In which the Greatest Living Briton says some very silly things, and then loses his temper So there we were. In a room devoted to Engineering, the man voted the Greatest Living Briton had exploded in front of me. Sir Tim Berners Lee, co-inventor of the World Wide Web, was at Southampton University to deliver…
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The Emperor’s New AI
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Andrew Orlowski
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“It looks like you’re trying to have a conversation with a computer – can I help? In the early 1970s, no science show was complete without predictions of HAL-like intelligent autonomous computers by the turn of the century. The Japanese, fearing their industrial base would collapse without a response to this omniscient technology, poured hundreds…