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Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well there are deepening levels of understanding depending on the learner’s pre-existing (e.g. matter > atoms > protons/neutrons/electrons > fermions), and there are things that are just plain incorrect, that were assumed to be correct, because science advances (e.g. Pluto is a grey ball of boring nothingness very similar to Mercury).

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  • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pluto is a grey ball of boring nothingness very similar to Mercury

    It isn’t?!

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    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You have to be shitting me… Pluto is a fucking Care bear planet:

      Pluto - Tombaugh_Regio

      Nobody told me that in the seventies…

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      • Klear@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Care Bear dwarf planet…

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      • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s really cool! (Because the average temperature on Pluto is apparently -387°F, or -232°C.)

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• Klear@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Relevant xkcd

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Relevant Pratchett

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Been through Discworld three times but hadn’t read The Science of Discworld. Know if it’s any good?

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I recall liking it well enough at the time but Lies to Children is honestly the only concept in it that was new to me. It’s a decent enough Unseen University side story but that’s just the framing for talking about real world physics.

        Where else are you going to find another Discworld fix though?

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• sleen@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  so what you’re saying is that this is ageism. And we are infantilizing individuals irrespective of their experience and actual understanding.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never been a big fan of children, but they fucking love me, even if I’m clearly annoyed at the time. I was asking my ex-wife about this mystery. “You don’t talk to them like kids, you talk to them like little adults and they respect that.”

    She was right! I talk to them like adults that simply don’t know as much as I do.

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