We want all young people to have a thorough grounding not just in physics, chemistry and biology but also to be able to apply it to the science of climate change, stem research and important issues beyond the school gate - whether or not they study at a higher level.
--Jim Knight MP, Minister for Schools
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4hodmt
May 25, 2009 17:21
I did briefly listen to music on the radio once when I went shopping with my father, as it was his car so I couldn't really turn it off. But in my defense it was some heavy vibrato soprano + lute or something, and on the way back some boring "modern" orchestral work that never went anyway, so I didn't enjoy it
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4hodmt
May 19, 2009 01:40
The greatest feature of Anki seems to be the statistics. To make learning a game you need a scoring system, and Anki is stuffed full of graphs and percentages. Numbers motivate me much better than vague goals. It's been a long time since I've worked this hard
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4hodmt
May 02, 2009 15:38
For anyone interested in trying out a SRS, poetry is a good thing to test it on. Poetry is very easy to remember. I just memorized "Jabberwocky
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4hodmt
May 02, 2009 15:19
The spacebar on this keyboard has a design flaw such that it is very difficult to press in the upper corners. A solution is to take a piece of adhesive tape, and tape from the center of the space bar to the indicator lights, so that the spacebar is gently pulled forward. It still doesn't feel as good as the Natural Elite's space bar, but it's a
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4hodmt
May 01, 2009 23:06
For a while I've been wondering why my fountain pen doesn't write well on the left side of the paper. At first I thought it was because of the angle of the pen, but occasionally it would have the same problem writing on other parts of the paper. A few minutes ago, while writing the dense and complicated kanji「鼈」I noticed the ridges of a
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