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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 22-07-2014

Jul 22, 2014 12:00

"I bought a woodland with 60 strangers" - sounds rather lovely.
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asher63 July 22 2014, 12:27:07 UTC

The woodland story is fascinating. It would be fun to follow these people, and the piece of land, over a period of several years.

The steam breakthrough strikes me as a good combination of high-tech with common sense: why heat all of the water at once if you're just interested in the surface layer that will evaporate right away? Exciting possibilities in water purification.

benicek July 23 2014, 09:36:38 UTC

I would love to own a share of woodland like that. It seems to me a great deal more sociable thing to own than a car, boat or timeshare apartment, and it's an actual piece of British ancient landscape, which is the most valuable thing we have.

Children Exposed To Religion Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From Fiction apostle_of_eris July 22 2014, 23:09:59 UTC

"Religion" =/= Christianity

Re: Children Exposed To Religion Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From Fiction drdoug July 23 2014, 06:35:47 UTC

Indeed - and in this study, if I've skim-read it right, they did recruit some Jewish kids, but excluded them to make sure the religious group would've had a chance to be familiar with New Testament stories they were planning to use. So in this study, the 'religious' kids were all Christian.

Children Exposed To Religion Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From Fiction drdoug July 23 2014, 06:52:14 UTC

It's an interesting study but I'm not sure it shows what they think it shows. I'll totally buy their finding that Christian-educated kids are way more likely to categorise religious stories as 'real' rather than 'pretend' when compared to non-religious kids. That's interesting, but not particularly Earth-shattering: 'kids brought up religious tend to say they believe what they've been told to say they believe ( ... )

Re: Children Exposed To Religion Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From Fiction andrewducker July 23 2014, 09:35:33 UTC

That makes sense to me - looks like an interesting first study, but one that will need substantial extra work to make it concrete.