Auditory/visual/kinesthetic etc. - like “make sure to incorporate movement into this activity for the kinesthetic learners”. Total bunk. The design of an activity should be based around what’s best for that activity, and ANY kid (or adult really) would get bored with too many of the same kind of activities in a row,…

The learning styles myth has been basically debunked. It seems to make sense on the surface, but at least among language teachers, we’ve moved on in the face of several studies showing no measurable existence of such styles. What does seem to exist are different “best practices” for different styles for different…

My former experience wasn’t in a start-up per se, and it wasn’t a tech company, but it was a small company run by the founder/owner that was in perpetual “start-up” mode. They sell “management consulting” (teaching English in a suit) to local corporations in this non-English speaking country. The owner/founder doesn’t…

If you make sure to always get the Korean meals, even the food on Korean is pretty darn edible.

Hell try not to fly them domestically. (I realize you can only fly American carriers domestically - for me this means when I’m in the USA I travel less).

This list is not full of Asian airlines just because of MERS. Asian transport infrastructure (in developed Asian countries anyway) is cleaner overall than in the West and has been for some time. In Taiwan (where EVA Air is based), they hire people to stand at the bottom of escalators with wet cloths (I think wet with…

I just hate the way that not vaccinating is compared to “personal choice”. It would be, if you were doing it to yourself. But you’re not. You’re doing it to your kid. Your kid doesn’t get a say in your anti-science bullshit...but by definition you’re not acting out of personal choice if you are forcing it on another…

this is the cutest predator of all. Such a cute widdle pwedator, yes you ARE

Bless his heart.

The tangential thing in this that made my eyebrows shoot up is “beautiful woman from an elite family”. Why should either of those things matter at all regarding how much one’s heart should break for her? She could be poor and ugly and it still would be terrible to be married to a guy like that.

We’ve presented plenty of logic, not our fault if you don’t want to hear it.

He’s not a comedian, he’s a physicist, and it sure seemed fairly clear that he did believe what he was saying. I don’t even see how it was a joke...where’s the punchline?

His bosses decided that he didn’t get to keep his job.
The public has decided that his views are shitty and not OK (as entitled to them as he is).

Other people don’t agree, yes. And while they are allowed to have that opinion and voice it, their opinions are shitty and ignorant. Not every opinion is worthy of respect. That doesn’t mean it can’t be voiced or is not allowed, but that also doesn’t mean that some opinions aren’t just plain crap. That doesn’t mean…

One can think that “it’s OK for a man who has professional power over women to say they shouldn’t be allowed in regular labs” is c omplete and utter bullshit, and not be “professionally outraged”.

I don’t see what’s proportional about it. He was in a position to professionally hinder the lives of many women under him.…

Exactly. Tim Hunt will probably get another job. People love Bill Clinton. Monica Lewinsky was basically screwed for a couple decades, though

I highly doubt any sane person never wants Tim Hunt to work again. But he should not be in a position of power of any sort over women again. He can work, do research, publish, even win prizes. But no more teaching or running labs or overseeing less established scientists, because no sane woman is ever going to feel…

Bullshit. We face similar pay disparities (for the same work, even when all other factors are accounted for - even the Department of Labor admits it), we were once similarly treated like property, in many places years after the end of slavery (in many states a woman was considered something of a non-entity, subsumed…

Considering that he has professional power over women, no, his comments were not innocuous.

Actually, if you think that what he did wasn’t too bad, that’s not ok at all. You can think it, you’re free to think it and say it. But it doesn’t make it “ok”.