Schoolboy, 13, becomes youngest person to carry out nuclear fusion
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Or maybe "Clever Lad Follows Instructions. Costs Taxpayers 2000 Pounds."
If he was non-white, Schwarzblatt would be livid at the waste of taxpayer money.
Read the story. He hurried to finish the project before his 14th birthday. This was a stunt, like the stuff people do to get in the Guinness Book. Contrast Ann Makosinski, who actually did creative, original work.
If he was non-white, Schwarzblatt would be livid at the waste of taxpayer money.
Read the story. He hurried to finish the project before his 14th birthday. This was a stunt, like the stuff people do to get in the Guinness Book. Contrast Ann Makosinski, who actually did creative, original work.
It is still possible to make some headlines via the frog dissection... It really depends on the statute of limitations as it applies to frogicide.
I smell a class action in here somewhere
True. If they don't watch him carefully, he may follow the directions to do something else. He might put together a model airplane, or even bake a cake!
Now you've done it! The NSA monitors all internet traffic, using programs to automatically search for key words/prhases.
Been nice knowing you. The internet speeds at Guantanamo really suck.
What are you talking about Yellow Cake is Lemon Cake which is yummy. Wait there is a lot of federal cops outside the window and there is a knock at the door I'll be right back
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Your sarcastic put downs are really adding to the discussions. I'm sure everyone is glad to have yet another bloody troll on the boards.
But you make up for it with your carefully thought-out, deeply incisive finger-wagging.
Let us know if and when you figure out the difference between repeating an old experiment and doing original work.
Or the difference between an argument and the logical fallacy of ad hominem.
Have you ever done the times tables in class? That's been done before. A pat on the back is called encouragement. Repetition is called LEARNING. You might want to try the latter.
As much as you enjoy putting the kid down, I'm sure the fusion experiment is a little more involved than a cookie recipe. Likely not all 13 year olds would be able to repeat it.
Yes. Learning is learning. Science is science.
I'm all in favour of learning. But my whole point remains that learning is what this kid was doing (plus, of course, my observations about the "stunt" aspects of what he was doing). Learning is important. Learning is necessary. But it's not science, and it's not achievement, except of course the achievement of learning.
I have given you the counter-example of Ann Makosinski, which I couldn't help notice you had no comment on. She did original work. She formed a hypothesis, tested it, had problems, found ways to correct them, and proved her hypothesis.
That's science. And she didn't rush the project to meet some silly-*** arbitrary age goal.
He's a good student. Ann Makosinski is a young scientist.
I suppose, with encouragement and learning, he too shall become a scientist. For now, he is following in set paths which, hopefully, the kid can build on later.
Berating a kid just feeds lawyers later on in their lives.
Berating a kid just feeds lawyers later on in their lives.
He might could. Hope he does, if that's what he wants to do. For all we know, he might have equal or even better talents in other areas.
He's making good use of his school years, that's sure.
I haven't berated him. I've said what he's doing is not science, where what Ann Makosinski did is.
To quote Burt Reynolds, "Why don't you just say something bad about my mother?"
For God's sake. Everyone who has ever been a student in a science class has repeated experiments done by others. If you didn't actually do the experiments, you most certainly read about them. That is how teaching works. Something you could use.
