again, I've tried to show you the concept of Mauri is being pushed into science and is unscientific.
he starts of wrong from the get go: "western knowledge is normally separated and categorised". It's not fucking western for a start, it's pan-cultural. Secondly, any body of knowledge sufficiently large needs to be categorised in some way and advancement ...
What rubbish. How is spreading religion like Mauri into Chemistry class warfare? Come on!
Actually the medical science and psychology fields consider the Placebo Effect to be very powerful, as proved in science using double blind trials.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Show us this research please, otherwise you are engaging in magical thinking.
What a spurious position to take. How is this relevant to the question is MM science? You are now playing the person, not the issue - one of the weakest forms of debate possible.
well said. No one in this whole sorry process of shitting on the Listener 7 etc has ever said that MM has no place in education, quite the contrary. It's the violent overreaction of the MM crowd that keeps this debate going and enrages those of us who ...
This seems false. The Catamaran was also invented by the Chinese, various European cultures like the Greeks etc, before Polynesia was explored. [I've popped you into premod, because you've made a lot of comments and it's going to take time to work through ...
No, it's because it's trying to push non-science concepts like Mauri in to science, which will confuse students and contribute further to our declining literacy, maths and science performance as a nation. You know, facts.
How about everyone who comments in the media, like this: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/elon-musk-richard-dawkins-criticism-of-matauranga-maori-in-schools-faces-backlash-from-kiwi-researcher/QQWSKLTDF5DCTETX5F3P3RBC5Y/ https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/01-06-...
But Weka we do give examples and you don't want to listen. I've repeatedly raised the concept of Mauri, which is part of MM and is explicitly being put in to the science curriculum. One minute of searching gives these links: https://maoridictionary.co.nz/...
Hear hear, well said Gosman. Weka's argument is another straw man designed to say that science can't understand/know this particular indigenous way of knowing. The reality is that if it can be shown to be scientific it's science. So please show us what ...
@Anker - so right there! It's the chilling effect that will have the worst impact I think. Chilling speech is the same as shutting down free speech, which pushes a range of views underground just to prevent the sort of expense, stress and being 'tarred ...
Hear hear, well said coreyjhumm
Thanks for the condescending put downs we've come to expect from you Red when challenged by anything. I actually have a Chemistry degree and now work as an IT professional, and have an extensive education in physics, economics, astrophysics and mathematics...
Again until there are production SMR's in operation, these issues are totally unknown. E.g. there are still a lot of fundamental materials science issues that are poorly understood with molten salt reactors due to pressure, temperature and corrosion. It's ...
There's a lot of very interesting work on new catalysts for catalysis of water to produce hydrogen (some based on common elements like Iron - I have a chemistry degree btw). I don't think this is going to be a problem in the very near term - overbuilding ...
Nice avoiding of the main issue I raised - nuclear is uneconomic everywhere and there's no demand for SMR's. This is not ideology, it's simple economics. You seem to imply that renewables have been massively subsidised and therefore so should SMR's to ...
Here we go again. A conservative, with no science education and a proven history as a liar, spouting about how amazing Nuclear is and how evil those dirty greenies are in opposing it blindly. Nuclear energy is, without doubt, the most expensive way to ...
Actually many Thorium designs are molten salt reactors.
This is the consistent delusion we see from older generations - Nuclear will save us!!! It seems based in an old world view that massive power plants are the only way to go. Also in this list of delusions, renewables can't provide enough power. Sorry, ...
The article you quote is simply ridiculous. Almost every single economist on earth would tell you that supply side economics and the Laffer Curve just don't work. Have a read of this: https://newrepublic.com/article/145331/art-laffer-intellectual-rot-...
This is definitely an issue due to high intake temperatures or restricted outflow temperatures e.g. https://nuclear-news.net/2018/08/24/hot-weather-continues-to-cause-lower-nuclear-power-production-in-france/ https://reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-power-takes...
Thermal generation relies on the Carnot cycle, and it becomes less efficient as the ambient temperature rises. So does the cooling efficiency, and in many jurisdictions power plants are also restricted from putting too much heat back into rivers/estuaries,...
Sorry but Hydrogen is just not efficient as a source of renewable power. There's power loss from generation to piping, storing and consuming hydrogen. The cheapest and most efficient use of solar and wind sources of renewable power is to send the ...
More puerile name calling to people who disagree. Again, you're conflating voting with education: "Online voting allows people easy access to reliable information on the decision being made and the expectations." No, these are different things. By all ...
@Draco 1. Nope, economically it is very hard to compromise paper based voting. You need a large number of humans to compromise the whole system, and the original paper ballots are there as a check/recount. Most instances where paper based voting have been ...
This idea is fatally flawed for three reasons: 1. security - as someone with deep experience of the tech sector, programming, security and technology architecture I can categorically state that there is no way to make any online voting system 100% secure ...
Why does this pathetic stadium idea keep coming up? We already have one on the Shore and Eden Park, multiple other facilities around Auckland, and rampant poverty and homelessness. Perhaps we could spend this money solving those problems before building a ...
Where are your figures Ad, you're just a Nat apologist. Show us your links supporting how great immigration is for NZ. Here's some real figures for the categories Immigration NZ uses to select immigrants: Essential skills visa approvals 2016/17 Truck ...
Interesting issue here- my understanding is we don't have an ageing population at present, rather it's more heavily weighted to 18-35 age group. This is a key thing in the immigration debate - there don't seem to be very good, up to date, reliable stats ...
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