May 27 2012: There's alternative David did not mention. It's creating oil from micro-organism who have genetically modified. A zoo-plankton can make oil from carbon dioxide and sunlight in photobioreactors. The CO2 can come from a cement factory for e.g. "Haematococcus Pluvialis"
Sep 3 2011: Noted...next you scientists out there doing experiments and wanting positive results which conclusive, drop out those outliers, ok? In the end you'll be rich.
Aug 10 2011: Yeah you are right. Thanks for clearing out my misunderstanding. Now I can sleep 'tanquille'. ;-) I was more concerned about industrial espionage.
Aug 7 2011: Hi Carlos,
That's your solution...kind of limited, isn't it? I propose, having a special class at school, teaching the boys how to talk and how to be open to the opposite sex and girls to stop giving 'ambiguous signals'. Sex education should be honest with student, for e.g, encourage a 'good-porn practice', I mean the issue of porn being immoral is outdated, so let's face reality, deal with it. Clear the minds of kids that a fantasy is completely different from reality. Sure anal sex looks appealing to guys but most girls seldom agree with it is the kind of information which should be given to teenagers. We should bring arousal addiction to knowledge which will not only creates excellent citizen but will incorporate a sense of morality and ethics in them.
Aug 6 2011: Mark, it appears that you're quite inform about education in general. Why do girls and women adapt and succeed more easily than boys and men? I heard that today's education creates frustration by repressing expression in boys and that from a very tender age. For e.g Their teachers(mostly girls) never ask to write an essay on their last gore games or what's going on in their head( a tornado tearing their house down for e.g). Moreover, boys lack the identification of model process, they can't imagine being like the she-teacher- some freudien's reasoning I believe).
What do you think?
Aug 6 2011: I don't know whether you have take a close look at games on facebook, yep, those on which lot of people, mostly teenagers spend quite a lot of their free time. Why not adapting this system to education? Wouldn't it be nice to have students addicted to education- passionate about knowledge in general.
These games have a system of experience points which you acquire when you play and you evolve in stages. For e.g adapted to an education system, a problem solved in mathematics brings 2 xp points and you need 99 xp to proceed to the next chapter( which has pre-requisite of the previous one), enabling greater comprehension. Futhermore this system is more centered on the student. Everyone has his or her own pace of learning right? Are we not satisfying everybody here. X takes 4 days to acquire 99 xp while Y took only 4 hours and Z a complete week. The teacher's role is more of a guide and he actuate his students.
Grades are not important but skills are. For example, to allow an engineer to have your bridge constructed it is obvious that you want someone competent and who can give you this attestation? A university, right! How does this institution know that this guy or girl has the skill required to do your job?
I'm taking too much. It all ends up to how do we know the truth about a person. Examination is a way to show the truth about his knowledge...a bad one these days, sadly. We have to find new ways to show the reality of a person.
Aug 6 2011: @ Alexander, I care for my private life and that of my community. We could be doing things which others might misinterpreted because we don't share the same culture. Moreover, I believe that if I had a company like apple who depends on innovations, I would not like the fact that my competitors spy on me and makes trillions out of my ideas, through spying.
@ Eric Remove frustrations and give the people what they need - games and/or alcohol. Problem solved?!
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That's your solution...kind of limited, isn't it? I propose, having a special class at school, teaching the boys how to talk and how to be open to the opposite sex and girls to stop giving 'ambiguous signals'. Sex education should be honest with student, for e.g, encourage a 'good-porn practice', I mean the issue of porn being immoral is outdated, so let's face reality, deal with it. Clear the minds of kids that a fantasy is completely different from reality. Sure anal sex looks appealing to guys but most girls seldom agree with it is the kind of information which should be given to teenagers. We should bring arousal addiction to knowledge which will not only creates excellent citizen but will incorporate a sense of morality and ethics in them.
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These games have a system of experience points which you acquire when you play and you evolve in stages. For e.g adapted to an education system, a problem solved in mathematics brings 2 xp points and you need 99 xp to proceed to the next chapter( which has pre-requisite of the previous one), enabling greater comprehension. Futhermore this system is more centered on the student. Everyone has his or her own pace of learning right? Are we not satisfying everybody here. X takes 4 days to acquire 99 xp while Y took only 4 hours and Z a complete week. The teacher's role is more of a guide and he actuate his students.
Grades are not important but skills are. For example, to allow an engineer to have your bridge constructed it is obvious that you want someone competent and who can give you this attestation? A university, right! How does this institution know that this guy or girl has the skill required to do your job?
I'm taking too much. It all ends up to how do we know the truth about a person. Examination is a way to show the truth about his knowledge...a bad one these days, sadly. We have to find new ways to show the reality of a person.
Thanks for reading me out.
s.
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@ Eric Remove frustrations and give the people what they need - games and/or alcohol. Problem solved?!
s.
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