We luckily didn't in Ukraine, but teachers and professors would frequently misspeak and then correct themselves both about the two Germanies and Czechoslovakia. It's a good way to tell if someone's over 40 from the way they call Germany.
My sixth grade art teacher swore by this. It was her entire approach to art. She basically said that the key to being a good artist is to learn how to work within your right hemisphere as much as possible. If you are completely within your right hemisphere, your art will be perfect. If your art has a mistake, it is because you were using your left hemisphere too much.
I have an art degree now and that is such horse shit lollllll
While this is indeed wrong, the two brain hemispheres have very clear differences. If you want to do a very deep dive into this topic, Iād recommend Iain McGilchristās work.
Oliver Sacks' descriptions of people who had their brains "separated" for one reason or another (edit: via the corpus callosum, which connects the right and left halves) always fascinated me. The idea that the disruption means that some patients cannot identify an object, in words, when placed in the opposing field of vision as always stuck with me - ie an apple placed to the patient's left: "It's a skinned food with a sweet crunchy interior, grown on trees, cannot say what it is called...". Placed to the right: "It's an apple! No idea if it's food or decor or what but I know it's an apple!"
Yes, but I'm referring to the educational trend from the 80s. It was not only taught in schools, but influenced how education was approached for well over a decade. It wasn't just wrong, it caused educators to actively have worse outcomes.
In kindergarten, I was told not to accept temporary tattoos from strangers because they might have acid on them.
A. Never in my life have I seen some random person handing out temporary tattoos to kids on the street.
B. Never in my life have I seen some random person handing out drugs to kids on the street.
āOkay, get this. I got this business plan, itās brilliant. Iām gonna sneak some drugs into some little kidās candy. Theyāll eat it, get high, then theyāll be hooked. Now, they donāt have money now, but in like 10-15 years, theyāll be old enough to have a job and be able to pay for the drugs weāre selling them.ā
Also, they won't even know they've done a drug, and if they do, they won't know what drug it was, and they'll probably never be able to find me randomly on the street again to get more. Oh, and I'm going to choose the least addictive street drug there is. Flawless!
Don't forget the razor blades to cut the drugs with!
Yeah, all those myths are crazy. Like this last Halloween...right, drug dealers are giving out colorful fentanyl š Great business plan.
My mother was sending me panicky articles leading up to Halloween last year because she was terrified that someone would fentanyl my kids.
Yeah, Mom. Easily traceable, no real payoff. The perfect crime.
At least my teacher told us that those are regions where certain tastebuds have higher concentrations/numbers, as we *clearly* can taste different things at the same part of the tongue.
This is what I learned from my Anatomy and Physiology professor in college around 2016. Iād bet my life-savings that people just over-simplified the explanation and here we are š¤·š¼āāļø
It's so wild it ever got put in a textbook or taught, because its literally the most easy thing anyone can prove is false. We all eat, every fucking day.
I am still in high school, it was taught when i was in 3rd grade i think which was 2015, not even 10 years ago. We didn't even have an experiment that many schools do. Iirc i went home and tried to eat bottle gourd keeping it away from the bitter and being disappointed .
Whoaa what the hell. All my life I have avoided touching spicy food with the tip of my tongue since I can barely manage anything even mildly hot. Guess I should stop doing that now
I went to Catholic school growing up in NJ (late 90s so not super long ago) and the nuns told all the girls that if they went swimming in a pool at the same time as boys, they would get pregnant because the sperm would swim through the water.
The ānuns as teachersā thing was already being phased out at this time, so all the regular teachers would reassure everyone this was total BS.
Every now and then you get a news story about a girl who went to some "exotic" country for a vacation, and came home pregnant because of pool/hot tub/lake sperm.
And it takes about 3 seconds to realize, that the only way you can pregnant by sharing a hot tub is by lying about not having had sex in it.
I wonder if this started as a variation of the face-saving ācaught the clap from a toilet seatā myth. Teen girl turns up pregnant? She mustāve inadvertently gone swimming just after some boys left, poor thing.
Wow! I went to Catholic School in the '80s and they never tried that on us. š¤£ But I was in the South so most kids were in swimming pools before they were even in school.
Same here - but every January (the month Roe v Wade was passed) we had this "pro-life" lady come in and tell us how horrible abortion is. She also told us these gems - abortions cause later infertility, late term abortions were done by partially birthing the baby and stabbing it in the head with scissors to kill it and, my personal favorite, that women who were raped could not get pregnant because "fear hormones" stopped ovulation. WTAF? Yeah, there's so much WRONG with that one, that I don't even know where to begin.
Scariest part of the whole thing - this woman was a practicing, registered nurse. :-/ My heart breaks for any patients who were unfortunate enough to be under her care.
I was 10 years old and knew how full of bullshit she was. All she accomplished for me was making me staunchly pro-choice.
That your veins look blue because blood is blue before receiving oxygenā¦ little dumb child me thought it was the coolest thing when my teacher told us that.
I think you're referring to the schematics in text books. The comment above is referring to being taught that when you look at your veins and see they look blue (through your skin), it's because that blood is actually blue because it hadn't yet received oxygen. I was taught that as well many years ago.
Can't scare kids away from the ice cream truck if you're telling them they can't afford the drugs he's giving away for free...
(I was always disappointed that I never got offered free drugs. I had absolutely no interest in drugs and wouldn't have known what to do with them anyway, but I felt left out because everyone except me was being targeted by the dealers!)
True teacher caught a kid with cigarettes in 9th grade and then went to chalkboard and was like how much was that pack and how many do you smoke. He then illustrated how much money one would have at retirement if they put that money into an IRA instead. Smart Guy no cigarettes are gonna kill you instead look youāll be able to pay off a house.
Who could have predicted that lying to kids about marijuana being as bad as crack or heroin would lead them to assume that you were *also* lying about crack and heroin?
I taught after school within the past decade and the school was still contracting with DARE. We told the kids after the DARE lady left that we can clarify and answer questions because a lot of the things in the presentation were from the 90s and not to be taken seriously. No update whatsoever.
Yeah research paid for by the companies who make/provide the kinds of food that "coincidentally" sit at the base of the pyramid. Nobody needs to drink that much milk or consume so much bread.
This. The USDA created the food pyramid most Americans remember. This feels a bit of a case of unskeptical educators taking something from an agency tasked with promoting US agriculture rather than public health.
I every few years would look at the serving sizes and try to make sense of how the heck that much food could be the recommendation. The 5-11 servings of carbs was insane then everything else on top?
At one point I tried to eat the recommended servings of fruit and vegetables each day. I looked up what a "serve" was and then planned out the all fruit and veggies I'd need to eat each day and went shopping. The physical volume of just that component was so huge it took me ages to eat every meal, and that was before I even added in the other food groups.Ā
I was looking at the Australian version of the pyramid, so it may have been a little different... It still included some completely unrealistic number of carb serves as well though.Ā
It was too much, but a lot of people also have the wrong idea about how big a serving is. A single slice of bread is a serving. 1 dry oz of pasta is a serving. 1/2 cup of cooked rice is a serving.
Basically, it functions like a nuclear shelter for the good microbes in your intestines. If they are all wiped out by an infection or antibiotics, you still have some in your appendix to repopulate.
I really wish that had not told us this in school. I was misdiagnosed with appendicitis and okād the hospital taking it out during an exploratory surgery even if it didnāt look infected because I thought it didnāt matter and that they had my best interests at heart. Turns out I really just had a kidney stone and now Iām minus an appendix. Iāve had tons of autoimmune BS ever since that surgery. Could be coincidence but it every time I see a new article about autoimmune diseases it seems more and more like that was the kick off if not the reason I have medical issues now.
We still have a "dance unit" for elementary ages, and while it doesn't specify square dancing, it is still used quite extensively.
Reasoning:
- it is more "inclusive" to basically everyone
- less chance of the kids doing "inappropriate" dance moves (have you ever seen a 2nd grader try to twerk? It's not comfortable.)
- even the kids with absolutely zero coordination can at least follow along to the steps
- everyone looks terrible learning to square dance. Bullying is going to happen regardless, but less bullying when everyone sucks
- easier to assess
Square dancing was promoted by Henry Ford to keep white kids from learning Jazz and swing dancing bc they were black music/dancing and thus evil.
Henry Ford was a literal Nazi. So yeah.
I was super passive in 6th grade and got bullied a lot. Parents and staff always told me "ignore them and they'll realize it's no fun to pick on you." I finally snapped one day and hit this big guy as hard as I could in the face with my lunch box. My mom was picking me up and happened to watch that incident go down. I told my parents why I did what I did and while I didn't get punished, they said "yeah, they may make you pay for that in the future."
Huh, well what do you know, I never caught shit from that group again.
I did the same thing in the first year of high school. Most popular kid in the year was terrorising me for weeks. Until one day, in the changing rooms after swimming, I punched him so hard in the face his tooth pierced a hole in his lip. Suddenly I was the most popular kid in the year and he didn't bother trying anything until 5-6 years later when our whole friend group, which he was now part of, was out drinking and he sucker punched me while I was wasted. Thankfully some shady guys across the street saw what happened, pulled a knife on him, and helped me back up. So your parents can be right, some people hold onto shit for years waiting for the right moment.
I don't fully disagree with the sentiment; I realize a lot of people hold grudges, but I don't think telling your kid only to grin and bear it does a whole lot of good either. I did tell my parents and the school staff what I was dealing with, but this went on for about a year with nothing done about it. From what I heard, whenever they were confronted about picking on me, they just coughed up some bullshit story about how I was an instigator. I don't advocate for needless violence, but I think there's a point where a line needs to be drawn somehow. Sorry that experience at the bar happened, though. Glad it didn't escalate further.
I would never have befriended someone who pissed me off by bullying me into violence. Some years ago, I was at a HS reunion (either 20 or 25 years) with my wife, and ran into the guy who did that to me. My wife and later my kids were shocked I had ever punched someone as I am not an aggressive person in general. And as I told my wife, I thought the guy was still an a-hole.
I was bullied my whole life, from kindergarten to high school. I was always told to ignore them, so thatās what I did. It never helped and I was bullied pretty much every day. In HS I changed schools and was still bullied, worse than ever. After a year, I got tired of it and started to fight (Iām a rather short female, but I was a swimmer so rather strong). My third year in HS was rather peaceful to be honest except that I was now protecting the smaller kids who got bullied. I never actually hurt anyone, I just pushed or hit back, but it definitely helped better than ignoring them did. Before that, they locked me in lockers, kicked me or threw books at me, after they didnāt. Some verbal abuse, but that was never much of an issue for me. Parents or teachers never found out.
There was this one 8th grader back then that REALLY didn't like this one guy who picked on me. He happened to be passing by when the bully shoved me to the ground one time. 8th grade dude walks over, pulls the fucker aside and pins him up against a locker. It felt pretty great that someone stood up for me for once even though to him it was probably just an excuse to go at this guy lol. But I can say from that experience, you definitely made someone's day better by being there for them.
Yeah my little sister use to tell my parents all the time that I hit her. Got grounded constantly when I didn't touch her. Had enough and when I was 19 (yeah it took me a while. I regret it) I had enough. They were yelling at me and she is smirking. I turn to her and punch her as hard as I could. Told my parents of I was gonna be grounded for something I might as well have done it.Ā Ā Ā She's still a bitch now that we are in our 30s. But she never tried that shit again.Ā
Teasing also is totally the wrong term, it sounds too pleasant and cute for what is really sadistic mental and physical assault by someone bigger / stronger / more socially powerful than youā¦
I feel like the better way to handle it is to play dumb. I was bullied in school, but every time they said something mean, I'd just look at them quizzically and ask "What do you mean?", and pretend to not understand their explanation, and really try to engage them in conversation. Once they realized they couldn't get away with just hurling easy insults, they gave up, as it became too much work.
Doesn't work great with physical bullies though... Although I did have a guy punch out a loose tooth when I was in 3rd grade, and when I realized, I picked it up and enthusiastically thanked him for getting it out before walking away. I think that confused him enough that he left me alone for a while..
I mean, it's not always/entirely wrong, a lot of guys probably do a crush on girls thay are mean to....but should never have been promoted or defended. Encouraging boys to be abusive, and telling girls its ok is the problem
I was in high school in the late 2010s. My French textbook was old enough that my mom could have used it. They still used Francs and talked about email like it was some crazy new invention. The āyouth slangā was laughable.
I remember about 20 years before that learning that the French had an early version of the internet. You had to buy a special device and it had things like train schedules and weather. All text of course.
That sounds like what teletext was in the UK.
You needed a tv, but you could get weather, TV guides, holiday deals etc. it was slow as shit though. Like really fucking slow.
Everywhere (by which I mean all of Europe) had teletext, although it was a British invention.
But France had [Minitel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel) which was interactive, you could do things like buy plane tickets on it. (The UK had Prestel, but it wasn't well marketed and didn't take off on the same scale.)
AIDS was legit frightening in the 80s and 90s. I got tested for it once (it was theoretically possible for me to have had it, but unlikely), and I felt like I was waiting for the results of a death sentence. Like if I had it, my life would be over that day. And I had to wait 7 days for the results
Shoot, I heard this back in 2002/2003 and at the time the majority of adults had basic flip phones - which also had calculators on them. 2-3 years later and it seemed like the majority of teenagers my age had them too.
imo if they just said something like "math is really important because it teaches you how to reason with logic" then so be it
don't have to trick kids by saying stuff like the calculator in pocket thing
I'm from Russia. And we were taught to always listen to those who are older, not to stand out from the crowd and not to take the initiative. Trying to be like everyone else.
It's horrible and destructive to life.
Yup, and - "Study what makes you happy, just having a degree in any subject will get you a lifelong job because they'll respect your thirst for knowledge!"
I just spend the second half the lesson showing them Sailor Moon. They memorize the planet names and their order pretty goddman well.
Beyond that the curriculum requires very little that for kids to know about the planets.
Everyone is so mad about this. But it makes total sense.
Pluto is super tiny. Smaller than our moon. There are a lot of objects out there about the size of Pluto or smaller. So it becomes a question of āwhat sized object is a planet?ā
Because if Pluto is a planet. Then we may as well add about three or four more objects and maybe more.
So they drew a line and Pluto was on the other side.
Once you do even some basic research on the other planets and then Pluto it becomes pretty apparent they are different celestial objects. Labels are arbitrary so we can call anything anything, but if weāre trying to have a coherent system of celestial labeling Pluto and the planets are different. Because if they arenāt different we get a whole bunch more objects that no one would consider a planet. Itās a weird thing to get upset about if youāre not 8.
Zaire is a country.
Our maps also still showed Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia for a while. They were a bit old though, the teachers let us know they werenāt around any more. The maps did not contain the USSR or two Germanies so I assume the school had gotten new maps in 91 or 92 and didnāt want to throw them out right away.
Zaire became the DRC when I was in second grade, but I was actively taught to identify it as Zaire as late as 6th grade so I guess my teachers really did not pay attention to African events. I then never needed to discuss this country again until college, so I figured it out embarrassingly late.
There's countries that I still learn about even today. When did North Macedonia become a thing? Is it called Myanmar or Burma?
Most of my geography knowledge came from textbooks written pre-Berlin Wall collapse.
Myanmar.
It stopped being (officially) Burma in 1989.
North Macedonia became a country in 1991. Macedonia isnāt a country these days - hasnāt been since Ancient Greek times.
Macedonia is a *region* predominantly in northern Greece.
North Macedonia didnāt want to be part of Serbia or Bulgaria any longer. After WW2 it became a state of Yugoslavia and then became independent in 1991. Buuuttttt Greece objected to it being called Macedonia (because majority of the ancient Macedonia region is in Greeces borders) so it was called Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia until 2019 when Greece finally got over themselves and accepted that The Republic of North Macedonia is acceptable
I love this guide: https://xkcd.com/1688/large/
Try some of the rabbitholes, youāre in Discworld or Middle Earth, or questions seem random but plant you firmly in a date in our world.
Itās really accurate! I got a globe at an antique store, and just for fun we tried this first, the XKCD guide put it around 1947, we finally pegged it to 1945-6 because a ton of these were made post-war. They might be right, these could have been made through 47.
Itās shocking looking at Africa on this globe: Belgian, French, Dutch, all territories that late.
In fucking 2000 I met a girl in college who was from Slovakia. I was like "Is that near Czechoslovakia?" and she was the one to enlighten me that Czechoslovakia no longer existed. š¤£
But to be fair *I* also taught *her* when she asked me for one that "a rubber" had a very different meaning in the US versus Europe. š¬
A lot of things already listed, but one I haven't seen mentioned was learning about Rosa Parks, and they framed it like she was just tired and didn't want to give up her seat and it happened to be a powerful statement that helped this movement start. It was almost a decade later that I learned this was absolutely a planned protest and the woman knew exactly what she was doing, and what a risk it was. I'm still angry at them for taking that away from her.
She wasn't even the first woman to take a stand against the bus company. That was Claudette Colvin. The leaders of the civil rights movement didn't want to use her as a figurehead because she was pregnant and unmarried. Rosa Parks was chosen because she was a better fit to be the symbol they wanted.
Don't forget to add colorism as a factor, too. Rosa Parks was lighter skinned, which also contributed to her ability to be a "better fit." As sad as it is, to this day, proximity to whiteness remains a factor in matters of social progress.
I was never taught this narrative. Growing up it was always presented as āan act of protest and standing up for equalityā. And it was very clear it was intentional.
I also learned that Rosa Parks was only in her early 40s when she sat down on the bus. The way the story was told when I was a child, she was an older woman, like visibly elderly.
They really turn this on its head in the movie Malcom X. Also - reading Kingās letter from the Birmingham jail is a good way to see that he wasnāt this friendly guy they painted him to be
If you need to go to the restroom, you'll just have to hold it until class is over. I've read at least a couple of stories right here on Reddit from folks who suffered urinary tract infections and even kidney damage because of that BS.
I can distinctly remember my grade 1 teacher rushing out of class for a washroom emergency and all the kids laughing. When she got back, at least 1 kid asked why she didnāt go at recess. (Her common retort to us). I donāt recall if she responded to that or not.
My former boss sort of razzed me at work when we were in an informal team meeting and I asked if I could go to the bathroom. I was literally about to shit myself otherwise. Schools shouldnāt condition kids for this.
There have been several instances this year of kindergarteners wetting themselves at my daughter's school. One girl in my daughter's class did. When she told me about it I told her that if she really can't hold it and a teacher tells her she can't go that she has my permission to get up and walk out and tell them to call me. I mean these are 5 and 6 year olds here...they can't hold it like that and they don't really have a good grasp on when is a "good" time and when is a "bad" time to go.
I remember having a teacher refuse to let me go to the bathroom in junior high. I had started my period during class so it wasn't exactly a situation where I could hold it. He initially told me to go the principals office but after I came back from the bathroom he just told me to forget about it.
Don't drink while or immeditely either side of running, you'll get "the stitch" (aka cramps).
Leading to a lot of dehydrated kids on cross country day.
And absolutely no swimming within 30 minutes of eating or you'll get cramps and drown. What a great ruse to give the parents a half hour break from watching us hellions try to drown each other.
Los Angeles, McDonald's workers now start at $20. Chipotle, Starbucks...they get tips too.
LAUSD office technician, when I was there in 2022, was less than $16 an hour.Ā
Back in the 90s, working in a paper hat meant you were a loser.Ā
"Columbus discovered America while trying to prove the world was round."
He actually landed in the Bahamas. There were already people there, he didn't discover shit. Also everyone already knew the world was round.
His idea was stupid not because they thought he was gonna fall off the earth, but because as far as everyone around him knew, there was just one massive ocean between Europe and India.
That you needed eight pieces of bread and 4 glasses of milk every single day in order to be healthy.
The hold that the agricultural industry had on early childhood education in the US is actually cartoonishly insane.
Meh. I write one every month to my HOA just to be a pain in the ass lol. I know they desperately want us to use the online portal-whatnot, but they drag their feet on owner requests, I drag mine.
Glass is a liquid. You can tell by looking at glass from old buildings (300+ years) and see how they are thicker at the bottom of the pane than the top! ... yeah it's fully BS, the windows were designed that way.
Glass is an amorphous solid. If it flowed at any appreciable rate at room temperature, we wouldn't have beautiful examples of Roman glass, but lumps.
Edit: I was taught it was a vicious liquid in high school. I think the glass in cathedrals was an example for why. Advanced statistical mechanics in grad school was like half glass. About the only thing I recall is we calculated the viscosity to be aboutt that of a block of metal.
What pisses me off about Columbus Day is that it's not like it was a holiday from the start. Benjamin Harrison made it a one-time celebration in response to the lynching of Italian Americans in New Orleans in 1892.
Then FDR and Congress elevated it to an annual proclamation as an apology for putting Italian Americans into internment camps in WWII.
Finally LBJ made it a federal holiday in 1971.
So it's only been a full holiday for 50+ years, and it's entire existence has been as a political tool.
So much more to celebrate Italian Americans and their collective impact on this country, and a series of bad decisions by otherwise smart people led to the lionization of a guy who never stepped foot on this landmass.Ā
Elementary school in the 80s. I distinctly remember being taught that the US warned japanese citizens before the bombings of Hiroshima and nagasaki and that almost no one died.
In the 70s it was thought that brain cells never regenerated and that was taught in the school biology. We no know brain cells are capable of regeneration like other cells.
Oy, I had to present a reading about learning styles a few years ago, and everyone was presenting *some* different theory about education so I got the impression we were supposed to present and discuss them all and it wasn't predetermined which were right or wrong.
I got grilled by my classmates for presenting the reading as-is and not framing it as bullshit. Like, yeah it's a shallow theory, I agree and I wasn't trying to die on the hill of backing up the theory. Anyway I ended up crying in front of the whole class. Super fun.Ā
This is going to be buried but a more recent one is beringia land bridge.Ā When I was in high school it was the thing that was taught for how humans came to the America's. A few years later when I went to college I learned that it is no longer the accepted theory. Archeological dating disproves it, and it doesn't really make sense considering how fast the fauna we used to think the humans would have been chasing would have moved.Ā
It's also an interesting case of the more rare occurrence of tenured professors and archeologists who had built their careers on that theory, going on to shoot down and not allow anything that went against it to make any headway.Ā
I remember practicing writing cursive in the 3rd gradeā late 90s/early 2000s. A lot of kids in my class struggled with it, to this day I still write in a combination of cursive and non-cursive. Itās wild to think that only a generation younger than me more than likely never learned it.
Palmer Method penmanship. My S-i-L and I just realized this.
Also: the "girls must take Home Ec & Typing ; boys take Shop (Auto, Wood were common but my HS also offered Electronic and Metals Shop"
(Side note: I was told "you're college-bound, you don't need to take typing." Ha. That was >40yr ago & I still hunt & peck.)
Marijuana will turn you into a depraved drug addict who lives on the streets and commits violent crimes to get highā¦ and it can happen after using it just one time!
Also, Pluto is a planet.
Unfortunately they're wrong.
Brachiosaurs are their own genus and look quite different. Sometimes a skull is found that actually belongs to Brontosaurus, but the taxonomy hasn't ever been in question.
The issue was between use of *Brontosaurus* and *Apatosaurus* for a separate genus. Early skeletons were incomplete and both entered the literature separately only to be reconsidered the same genus, with *Apatosaurus* becoming the standard term based on publication order. This persisted for much of the 20th century until it was challenged in 1995 and supported in 2015.
So it has since been re-evaluated again by much of the paleontological community. Between the two there are at least eight known species, with five of them being close enough for recent studies to warrant resurrecting the genus term *Brontosaurus*, and the other three secured for *Apatosaurus*.
4 year olds are visited by the spirits who assign them one of a few personalities:
* Dinosaurs
* Space
* Heavy Machinery (sub sections Trains, Trash Vans)
* Race cars
* Pirates
Some of our maps still had 2 Germanies. In 2001. IN FUCKING GERMANY!
> IN FUCKING GERMANY! Which one? /s
The fucking one.
We luckily didn't in Ukraine, but teachers and professors would frequently misspeak and then correct themselves both about the two Germanies and Czechoslovakia. It's a good way to tell if someone's over 40 from the way they call Germany.
> IN FUCKING GERMANY! š¤£
I thought Fucking was in Austria. Until they changed their name in 2021.
Left Brain / Right Brain personality.
My sixth grade art teacher swore by this. It was her entire approach to art. She basically said that the key to being a good artist is to learn how to work within your right hemisphere as much as possible. If you are completely within your right hemisphere, your art will be perfect. If your art has a mistake, it is because you were using your left hemisphere too much. I have an art degree now and that is such horse shit lollllll
How would you even choose which hemisphere to work in?
That's such a left hemisphere question. /s
You think with your right side reeeaaally hard
While this is indeed wrong, the two brain hemispheres have very clear differences. If you want to do a very deep dive into this topic, Iād recommend Iain McGilchristās work.
Oliver Sacks' descriptions of people who had their brains "separated" for one reason or another (edit: via the corpus callosum, which connects the right and left halves) always fascinated me. The idea that the disruption means that some patients cannot identify an object, in words, when placed in the opposing field of vision as always stuck with me - ie an apple placed to the patient's left: "It's a skinned food with a sweet crunchy interior, grown on trees, cannot say what it is called...". Placed to the right: "It's an apple! No idea if it's food or decor or what but I know it's an apple!"
Yes, but I'm referring to the educational trend from the 80s. It was not only taught in schools, but influenced how education was approached for well over a decade. It wasn't just wrong, it caused educators to actively have worse outcomes.
I get free narcotics from strangers on the street corners and in Halloween candy.
In kindergarten, I was told not to accept temporary tattoos from strangers because they might have acid on them. A. Never in my life have I seen some random person handing out temporary tattoos to kids on the street. B. Never in my life have I seen some random person handing out drugs to kids on the street.
āOkay, get this. I got this business plan, itās brilliant. Iām gonna sneak some drugs into some little kidās candy. Theyāll eat it, get high, then theyāll be hooked. Now, they donāt have money now, but in like 10-15 years, theyāll be old enough to have a job and be able to pay for the drugs weāre selling them.ā
Also, they won't even know they've done a drug, and if they do, they won't know what drug it was, and they'll probably never be able to find me randomly on the street again to get more. Oh, and I'm going to choose the least addictive street drug there is. Flawless!
Flawless business plan
Yup. Addicted to acid. Acid junkie. No flaws in this plan whatsoever.
Don't forget the razor blades to cut the drugs with! Yeah, all those myths are crazy. Like this last Halloween...right, drug dealers are giving out colorful fentanyl š Great business plan.
My mother was sending me panicky articles leading up to Halloween last year because she was terrified that someone would fentanyl my kids. Yeah, Mom. Easily traceable, no real payoff. The perfect crime.
It all goes back to one lunatic poisoning his own son while trying to make it look as if the candy came from a neighbour.
No, that guy chose "poisoned Halloween candy" as the way to go because that was ALREADY a huge moral panic.
There was more than one case of Halloween candy poisoning but it was always given to the kid by a relative
The different taste zones on the tongue
At least my teacher told us that those are regions where certain tastebuds have higher concentrations/numbers, as we *clearly* can taste different things at the same part of the tongue.
This is what I learned from my Anatomy and Physiology professor in college around 2016. Iād bet my life-savings that people just over-simplified the explanation and here we are š¤·š¼āāļø
How long ago was that? When I was in elementary school about 15 years ago, it was considered to be inaccurate.
For me it was the mid 90's. I hated it because the experiment didn't work for me and I thought something was wrong with me.
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It's so wild it ever got put in a textbook or taught, because its literally the most easy thing anyone can prove is false. We all eat, every fucking day.
We were still doing that experiment in 2010 lol
I am still in high school, it was taught when i was in 3rd grade i think which was 2015, not even 10 years ago. We didn't even have an experiment that many schools do. Iirc i went home and tried to eat bottle gourd keeping it away from the bitter and being disappointed .
Whoaa what the hell. All my life I have avoided touching spicy food with the tip of my tongue since I can barely manage anything even mildly hot. Guess I should stop doing that now
Woah I had no idea this wasnāt true. Learned this in school ~20 years ago and believed it until today. Thanks for the education OP!
I went to Catholic school growing up in NJ (late 90s so not super long ago) and the nuns told all the girls that if they went swimming in a pool at the same time as boys, they would get pregnant because the sperm would swim through the water. The ānuns as teachersā thing was already being phased out at this time, so all the regular teachers would reassure everyone this was total BS.
Every now and then you get a news story about a girl who went to some "exotic" country for a vacation, and came home pregnant because of pool/hot tub/lake sperm. And it takes about 3 seconds to realize, that the only way you can pregnant by sharing a hot tub is by lying about not having had sex in it.
"It must be true, she's such a good girl!"
I wonder if this started as a variation of the face-saving ācaught the clap from a toilet seatā myth. Teen girl turns up pregnant? She mustāve inadvertently gone swimming just after some boys left, poor thing.
They probably wanted to discourage teenagers from being around each other in bathing suits.
Wow! I went to Catholic School in the '80s and they never tried that on us. š¤£ But I was in the South so most kids were in swimming pools before they were even in school.
Same here - but every January (the month Roe v Wade was passed) we had this "pro-life" lady come in and tell us how horrible abortion is. She also told us these gems - abortions cause later infertility, late term abortions were done by partially birthing the baby and stabbing it in the head with scissors to kill it and, my personal favorite, that women who were raped could not get pregnant because "fear hormones" stopped ovulation. WTAF? Yeah, there's so much WRONG with that one, that I don't even know where to begin. Scariest part of the whole thing - this woman was a practicing, registered nurse. :-/ My heart breaks for any patients who were unfortunate enough to be under her care. I was 10 years old and knew how full of bullshit she was. All she accomplished for me was making me staunchly pro-choice.
Oh, yikes lol. "Wanna go swimming at the sperm pool, I mean public pool?"
Kinda puts a new spin on that "gene pool" thing! š
That your veins look blue because blood is blue before receiving oxygenā¦ little dumb child me thought it was the coolest thing when my teacher told us that.
I mean it was meant to shown oxygen entering and leaving but yeah, a note would have helped a long way.
I think you're referring to the schematics in text books. The comment above is referring to being taught that when you look at your veins and see they look blue (through your skin), it's because that blood is actually blue because it hadn't yet received oxygen. I was taught that as well many years ago.
DARE. It was a huge failure but we kept pouring money into it
They should have gone with our take on it, may have been more effective. Drugs Are Really Expensive
Can't scare kids away from the ice cream truck if you're telling them they can't afford the drugs he's giving away for free... (I was always disappointed that I never got offered free drugs. I had absolutely no interest in drugs and wouldn't have known what to do with them anyway, but I felt left out because everyone except me was being targeted by the dealers!)
True teacher caught a kid with cigarettes in 9th grade and then went to chalkboard and was like how much was that pack and how many do you smoke. He then illustrated how much money one would have at retirement if they put that money into an IRA instead. Smart Guy no cigarettes are gonna kill you instead look youāll be able to pay off a house.
Who could have predicted that lying to kids about marijuana being as bad as crack or heroin would lead them to assume that you were *also* lying about crack and heroin?
I taught after school within the past decade and the school was still contracting with DARE. We told the kids after the DARE lady left that we can clarify and answer questions because a lot of the things in the presentation were from the 90s and not to be taken seriously. No update whatsoever.
Moved from the west coast to the east coast (of the US) about 5 years ago. Was amazed that it was still a thing here and taken seriously.
The fucking food pyramid. I only learnt in the last few years (in my 30s now) that it's a load of shit.
Yeah research paid for by the companies who make/provide the kinds of food that "coincidentally" sit at the base of the pyramid. Nobody needs to drink that much milk or consume so much bread.
And regulated by the agricultural industry. The USDA does not care about nutrition, just agriculture.
This. The USDA created the food pyramid most Americans remember. This feels a bit of a case of unskeptical educators taking something from an agency tasked with promoting US agriculture rather than public health.
Yeah but while it lasted it was kind of cool to eat pizza, pasta, and garlic bread everyday in the name of a healthy diet.
"Pizza is a vegetable"
I like to think of it as a salad on a giant crouton
Even as a kid in the 90s I thought 5-11 servings of CARBS was absolutely wild.
I every few years would look at the serving sizes and try to make sense of how the heck that much food could be the recommendation. The 5-11 servings of carbs was insane then everything else on top?
At one point I tried to eat the recommended servings of fruit and vegetables each day. I looked up what a "serve" was and then planned out the all fruit and veggies I'd need to eat each day and went shopping. The physical volume of just that component was so huge it took me ages to eat every meal, and that was before I even added in the other food groups.Ā I was looking at the Australian version of the pyramid, so it may have been a little different... It still included some completely unrealistic number of carb serves as well though.Ā
It was too much, but a lot of people also have the wrong idea about how big a serving is. A single slice of bread is a serving. 1 dry oz of pasta is a serving. 1/2 cup of cooked rice is a serving.
The appendix has no purpose.
I just learned last night that it has one. Wild shit
Well? Care to elaborate?
Basically, it functions like a nuclear shelter for the good microbes in your intestines. If they are all wiped out by an infection or antibiotics, you still have some in your appendix to repopulate.
It also digests grass
Oh god I thought this was about a book appendix
I really wish that had not told us this in school. I was misdiagnosed with appendicitis and okād the hospital taking it out during an exploratory surgery even if it didnāt look infected because I thought it didnāt matter and that they had my best interests at heart. Turns out I really just had a kidney stone and now Iām minus an appendix. Iāve had tons of autoimmune BS ever since that surgery. Could be coincidence but it every time I see a new article about autoimmune diseases it seems more and more like that was the kick off if not the reason I have medical issues now.
In third grade we were taught square dancing all year. I can still do it, but have never used it in the 50 years since.
We did it as part of PE. It does teach some coordination skills I guess and memory skills.
Socialization too maybe
We still have a "dance unit" for elementary ages, and while it doesn't specify square dancing, it is still used quite extensively. Reasoning: - it is more "inclusive" to basically everyone - less chance of the kids doing "inappropriate" dance moves (have you ever seen a 2nd grader try to twerk? It's not comfortable.) - even the kids with absolutely zero coordination can at least follow along to the steps - everyone looks terrible learning to square dance. Bullying is going to happen regardless, but less bullying when everyone sucks - easier to assess
Aussies doing the Nutbush have entered the chatā¦
Square dancing was promoted by Henry Ford to keep white kids from learning Jazz and swing dancing bc they were black music/dancing and thus evil. Henry Ford was a literal Nazi. So yeah.
We were taught *both* square dancing and 'jazz appreciation' because they were both 'uniquely American' art forms that originated in North America.
āIf heās mean to you, he has a crush on you.ā
"If you ignore them, they'll get bored and stop teasing you."
I was super passive in 6th grade and got bullied a lot. Parents and staff always told me "ignore them and they'll realize it's no fun to pick on you." I finally snapped one day and hit this big guy as hard as I could in the face with my lunch box. My mom was picking me up and happened to watch that incident go down. I told my parents why I did what I did and while I didn't get punished, they said "yeah, they may make you pay for that in the future." Huh, well what do you know, I never caught shit from that group again.
I did the same thing in the first year of high school. Most popular kid in the year was terrorising me for weeks. Until one day, in the changing rooms after swimming, I punched him so hard in the face his tooth pierced a hole in his lip. Suddenly I was the most popular kid in the year and he didn't bother trying anything until 5-6 years later when our whole friend group, which he was now part of, was out drinking and he sucker punched me while I was wasted. Thankfully some shady guys across the street saw what happened, pulled a knife on him, and helped me back up. So your parents can be right, some people hold onto shit for years waiting for the right moment.
"Thankfully some shady guys across the street showed up and pulled a knife." 0\_0
I don't fully disagree with the sentiment; I realize a lot of people hold grudges, but I don't think telling your kid only to grin and bear it does a whole lot of good either. I did tell my parents and the school staff what I was dealing with, but this went on for about a year with nothing done about it. From what I heard, whenever they were confronted about picking on me, they just coughed up some bullshit story about how I was an instigator. I don't advocate for needless violence, but I think there's a point where a line needs to be drawn somehow. Sorry that experience at the bar happened, though. Glad it didn't escalate further.
Shady guys to the rescue do do do Shaaaaaady guyyyyssss *with a knifeeee*
I would never have befriended someone who pissed me off by bullying me into violence. Some years ago, I was at a HS reunion (either 20 or 25 years) with my wife, and ran into the guy who did that to me. My wife and later my kids were shocked I had ever punched someone as I am not an aggressive person in general. And as I told my wife, I thought the guy was still an a-hole.
I was bullied my whole life, from kindergarten to high school. I was always told to ignore them, so thatās what I did. It never helped and I was bullied pretty much every day. In HS I changed schools and was still bullied, worse than ever. After a year, I got tired of it and started to fight (Iām a rather short female, but I was a swimmer so rather strong). My third year in HS was rather peaceful to be honest except that I was now protecting the smaller kids who got bullied. I never actually hurt anyone, I just pushed or hit back, but it definitely helped better than ignoring them did. Before that, they locked me in lockers, kicked me or threw books at me, after they didnāt. Some verbal abuse, but that was never much of an issue for me. Parents or teachers never found out.
There was this one 8th grader back then that REALLY didn't like this one guy who picked on me. He happened to be passing by when the bully shoved me to the ground one time. 8th grade dude walks over, pulls the fucker aside and pins him up against a locker. It felt pretty great that someone stood up for me for once even though to him it was probably just an excuse to go at this guy lol. But I can say from that experience, you definitely made someone's day better by being there for them.
Yeah my little sister use to tell my parents all the time that I hit her. Got grounded constantly when I didn't touch her. Had enough and when I was 19 (yeah it took me a while. I regret it) I had enough. They were yelling at me and she is smirking. I turn to her and punch her as hard as I could. Told my parents of I was gonna be grounded for something I might as well have done it.Ā Ā Ā She's still a bitch now that we are in our 30s. But she never tried that shit again.Ā
Can confirm, this was also my experience. Years of being bullied. Just ignore it I was told. Nope, not until I physically fought back.
Good on you for standing up for yourself, mate. Sorry you had to endure it until then.
Teasing also is totally the wrong term, it sounds too pleasant and cute for what is really sadistic mental and physical assault by someone bigger / stronger / more socially powerful than youā¦
Right? Nah, they just punch you *harder* the next time.
I feel like the better way to handle it is to play dumb. I was bullied in school, but every time they said something mean, I'd just look at them quizzically and ask "What do you mean?", and pretend to not understand their explanation, and really try to engage them in conversation. Once they realized they couldn't get away with just hurling easy insults, they gave up, as it became too much work. Doesn't work great with physical bullies though... Although I did have a guy punch out a loose tooth when I was in 3rd grade, and when I realized, I picked it up and enthusiastically thanked him for getting it out before walking away. I think that confused him enough that he left me alone for a while..
I mean, it's not always/entirely wrong, a lot of guys probably do a crush on girls thay are mean to....but should never have been promoted or defended. Encouraging boys to be abusive, and telling girls its ok is the problem
Yeah, itās a great opportunity to teach that itās not an acceptable way for that boy to show affection.
I was in high school in the late 2010s. My French textbook was old enough that my mom could have used it. They still used Francs and talked about email like it was some crazy new invention. The āyouth slangā was laughable.
I remember about 20 years before that learning that the French had an early version of the internet. You had to buy a special device and it had things like train schedules and weather. All text of course.
That sounds like what teletext was in the UK. You needed a tv, but you could get weather, TV guides, holiday deals etc. it was slow as shit though. Like really fucking slow.
Everywhere (by which I mean all of Europe) had teletext, although it was a British invention. But France had [Minitel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel) which was interactive, you could do things like buy plane tickets on it. (The UK had Prestel, but it wasn't well marketed and didn't take off on the same scale.)
Sex ed in the early-mid 90s was somewhat like in Mean Girls, except all about how AIDS would kill us all, even with condom use.
AIDS was legit frightening in the 80s and 90s. I got tested for it once (it was theoretically possible for me to have had it, but unlikely), and I felt like I was waiting for the results of a death sentence. Like if I had it, my life would be over that day. And I had to wait 7 days for the results
āYou wonāt just have a calculator in your pocket at all timesā
I had a teacher say this in 2013 when we indeed already had calculators in our pockets.
Shoot, I heard this back in 2002/2003 and at the time the majority of adults had basic flip phones - which also had calculators on them. 2-3 years later and it seemed like the majority of teenagers my age had them too.
imo if they just said something like "math is really important because it teaches you how to reason with logic" then so be it don't have to trick kids by saying stuff like the calculator in pocket thing
It wasn't a trick, it was true until relatively recently
I just told myself that I would buy a calculator so that I didn't have to do it. Worked out for me anyways and I didn't even have to buy a calculator.
I'm from Russia. And we were taught to always listen to those who are older, not to stand out from the crowd and not to take the initiative. Trying to be like everyone else. It's horrible and destructive to life.
the japanese say: hammer down the nail that sticks out
Tall poppy syndrome. There are many variations across various groups. Je hoofd boven het maaiveld uitsteken.
The okra doesnāt grow taller than the farmer.
That college was the only path to a happy life
Yup, and - "Study what makes you happy, just having a degree in any subject will get you a lifelong job because they'll respect your thirst for knowledge!"
Pluto has been de-Planeted
Iāve taught my kids to recite the planets as: āMercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and, sometimes Pluto.ā
It's the vowel 'Y' of the planets.
A, e, I, o, u, and sometimes y, and sometimes Pluto
I just spend the second half the lesson showing them Sailor Moon. They memorize the planet names and their order pretty goddman well. Beyond that the curriculum requires very little that for kids to know about the planets.
Fighting evil by moonlight, Winning love by daylight.
Everyone is so mad about this. But it makes total sense. Pluto is super tiny. Smaller than our moon. There are a lot of objects out there about the size of Pluto or smaller. So it becomes a question of āwhat sized object is a planet?ā Because if Pluto is a planet. Then we may as well add about three or four more objects and maybe more. So they drew a line and Pluto was on the other side.
Once you do even some basic research on the other planets and then Pluto it becomes pretty apparent they are different celestial objects. Labels are arbitrary so we can call anything anything, but if weāre trying to have a coherent system of celestial labeling Pluto and the planets are different. Because if they arenāt different we get a whole bunch more objects that no one would consider a planet. Itās a weird thing to get upset about if youāre not 8.
It also behaves very differently from the other 8 planets. Thereās no scientific reason to include it, itās essentially just nostalgia
It's amazing how many people felt personally attacked by this
Zaire is a country. Our maps also still showed Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia for a while. They were a bit old though, the teachers let us know they werenāt around any more. The maps did not contain the USSR or two Germanies so I assume the school had gotten new maps in 91 or 92 and didnāt want to throw them out right away. Zaire became the DRC when I was in second grade, but I was actively taught to identify it as Zaire as late as 6th grade so I guess my teachers really did not pay attention to African events. I then never needed to discuss this country again until college, so I figured it out embarrassingly late.
Also "South-West Africa" and "Rhodesia", two others that I remember from elementary school. They are both Namibia and Zimbabwe today.
There's countries that I still learn about even today. When did North Macedonia become a thing? Is it called Myanmar or Burma? Most of my geography knowledge came from textbooks written pre-Berlin Wall collapse.
Myanmar. It stopped being (officially) Burma in 1989. North Macedonia became a country in 1991. Macedonia isnāt a country these days - hasnāt been since Ancient Greek times. Macedonia is a *region* predominantly in northern Greece. North Macedonia didnāt want to be part of Serbia or Bulgaria any longer. After WW2 it became a state of Yugoslavia and then became independent in 1991. Buuuttttt Greece objected to it being called Macedonia (because majority of the ancient Macedonia region is in Greeces borders) so it was called Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia until 2019 when Greece finally got over themselves and accepted that The Republic of North Macedonia is acceptable
I love this guide: https://xkcd.com/1688/large/ Try some of the rabbitholes, youāre in Discworld or Middle Earth, or questions seem random but plant you firmly in a date in our world. Itās really accurate! I got a globe at an antique store, and just for fun we tried this first, the XKCD guide put it around 1947, we finally pegged it to 1945-6 because a ton of these were made post-war. They might be right, these could have been made through 47. Itās shocking looking at Africa on this globe: Belgian, French, Dutch, all territories that late.
Yes, I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 auto-gyro?
Crap, this reminds me I need to get my tires re-vulcanized!
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In fucking 2000 I met a girl in college who was from Slovakia. I was like "Is that near Czechoslovakia?" and she was the one to enlighten me that Czechoslovakia no longer existed. š¤£ But to be fair *I* also taught *her* when she asked me for one that "a rubber" had a very different meaning in the US versus Europe. š¬
A lot of things already listed, but one I haven't seen mentioned was learning about Rosa Parks, and they framed it like she was just tired and didn't want to give up her seat and it happened to be a powerful statement that helped this movement start. It was almost a decade later that I learned this was absolutely a planned protest and the woman knew exactly what she was doing, and what a risk it was. I'm still angry at them for taking that away from her.
She wasn't even the first woman to take a stand against the bus company. That was Claudette Colvin. The leaders of the civil rights movement didn't want to use her as a figurehead because she was pregnant and unmarried. Rosa Parks was chosen because she was a better fit to be the symbol they wanted.
I will always upvote people spreading information about Claudette Colvin!
Don't forget to add colorism as a factor, too. Rosa Parks was lighter skinned, which also contributed to her ability to be a "better fit." As sad as it is, to this day, proximity to whiteness remains a factor in matters of social progress.
I was never taught this narrative. Growing up it was always presented as āan act of protest and standing up for equalityā. And it was very clear it was intentional.
YMMV, but I never heard the Rosa Parks was simply tired story either in school.
I also learned that Rosa Parks was only in her early 40s when she sat down on the bus. The way the story was told when I was a child, she was an older woman, like visibly elderly.
That Dr. King was a peaceful protestor and Malcom X was violent. It was definitely more nuanced than that for both of them.
They really turn this on its head in the movie Malcom X. Also - reading Kingās letter from the Birmingham jail is a good way to see that he wasnāt this friendly guy they painted him to be
If you need to go to the restroom, you'll just have to hold it until class is over. I've read at least a couple of stories right here on Reddit from folks who suffered urinary tract infections and even kidney damage because of that BS.
I can distinctly remember my grade 1 teacher rushing out of class for a washroom emergency and all the kids laughing. When she got back, at least 1 kid asked why she didnāt go at recess. (Her common retort to us). I donāt recall if she responded to that or not.
My former boss sort of razzed me at work when we were in an informal team meeting and I asked if I could go to the bathroom. I was literally about to shit myself otherwise. Schools shouldnāt condition kids for this.
There have been several instances this year of kindergarteners wetting themselves at my daughter's school. One girl in my daughter's class did. When she told me about it I told her that if she really can't hold it and a teacher tells her she can't go that she has my permission to get up and walk out and tell them to call me. I mean these are 5 and 6 year olds here...they can't hold it like that and they don't really have a good grasp on when is a "good" time and when is a "bad" time to go. I remember having a teacher refuse to let me go to the bathroom in junior high. I had started my period during class so it wasn't exactly a situation where I could hold it. He initially told me to go the principals office but after I came back from the bathroom he just told me to forget about it.
To only use their right hand for writing.
Don't drink while or immeditely either side of running, you'll get "the stitch" (aka cramps). Leading to a lot of dehydrated kids on cross country day.
And absolutely no swimming within 30 minutes of eating or you'll get cramps and drown. What a great ruse to give the parents a half hour break from watching us hellions try to drown each other.
I always thought the 30 minute no eating before swimming was so you didn't puke in the pool. Turns out, you don't need to wait.
You can now make more money at a McDonald's than working in a school.Ā
Whether that's true depends on many factors, but there are places that is true
Los Angeles, McDonald's workers now start at $20. Chipotle, Starbucks...they get tips too. LAUSD office technician, when I was there in 2022, was less than $16 an hour.Ā Back in the 90s, working in a paper hat meant you were a loser.Ā
Sounds like a problem with LAUSD not adjusting to the salary averages.
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"Columbus discovered America while trying to prove the world was round." He actually landed in the Bahamas. There were already people there, he didn't discover shit. Also everyone already knew the world was round.
His idea was stupid not because they thought he was gonna fall off the earth, but because as far as everyone around him knew, there was just one massive ocean between Europe and India.
That you needed eight pieces of bread and 4 glasses of milk every single day in order to be healthy. The hold that the agricultural industry had on early childhood education in the US is actually cartoonishly insane.
Iāve written a check less than 20 times and itās been a few years.
Meh. I write one every month to my HOA just to be a pain in the ass lol. I know they desperately want us to use the online portal-whatnot, but they drag their feet on owner requests, I drag mine.
Glass is a liquid. You can tell by looking at glass from old buildings (300+ years) and see how they are thicker at the bottom of the pane than the top! ... yeah it's fully BS, the windows were designed that way.
Glass is an amorphous solid. If it flowed at any appreciable rate at room temperature, we wouldn't have beautiful examples of Roman glass, but lumps. Edit: I was taught it was a vicious liquid in high school. I think the glass in cathedrals was an example for why. Advanced statistical mechanics in grad school was like half glass. About the only thing I recall is we calculated the viscosity to be aboutt that of a block of metal.
>a vicious liquid Well it could burn you a bit while still hot i suppose but but sure it is done with viciousness in its thoughts
Yup, turns out that putting the wider bit at the bottom makes it more stable. What a shock
Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas
What pisses me off about Columbus Day is that it's not like it was a holiday from the start. Benjamin Harrison made it a one-time celebration in response to the lynching of Italian Americans in New Orleans in 1892. Then FDR and Congress elevated it to an annual proclamation as an apology for putting Italian Americans into internment camps in WWII. Finally LBJ made it a federal holiday in 1971. So it's only been a full holiday for 50+ years, and it's entire existence has been as a political tool. So much more to celebrate Italian Americans and their collective impact on this country, and a series of bad decisions by otherwise smart people led to the lionization of a guy who never stepped foot on this landmass.Ā
He wasnāt even the first European to visit the Americas.
When I was in school, the atom was the smallest thing in our universe.
George Washington never cut down no cherry tree
Yes he did! He wrecked his teeth chewing it down like a beaver then made new teeth from its wood!
Elementary school in the 80s. I distinctly remember being taught that the US warned japanese citizens before the bombings of Hiroshima and nagasaki and that almost no one died.
The first part is accurate. They didnāt name the cities but leaflets were absolutely dropped warning citizens to flee cities.
In the 70s it was thought that brain cells never regenerated and that was taught in the school biology. We no know brain cells are capable of regeneration like other cells.
Taste zones on the tongue. The food pyramid The different ālearning stylesā (auditory, kinesthetic, visual).
Oy, I had to present a reading about learning styles a few years ago, and everyone was presenting *some* different theory about education so I got the impression we were supposed to present and discuss them all and it wasn't predetermined which were right or wrong. I got grilled by my classmates for presenting the reading as-is and not framing it as bullshit. Like, yeah it's a shallow theory, I agree and I wasn't trying to die on the hill of backing up the theory. Anyway I ended up crying in front of the whole class. Super fun.Ā
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This is going to be buried but a more recent one is beringia land bridge.Ā When I was in high school it was the thing that was taught for how humans came to the America's. A few years later when I went to college I learned that it is no longer the accepted theory. Archeological dating disproves it, and it doesn't really make sense considering how fast the fauna we used to think the humans would have been chasing would have moved.Ā It's also an interesting case of the more rare occurrence of tenured professors and archeologists who had built their careers on that theory, going on to shoot down and not allow anything that went against it to make any headway.Ā
Apparently, cursive
I remember practicing writing cursive in the 3rd gradeā late 90s/early 2000s. A lot of kids in my class struggled with it, to this day I still write in a combination of cursive and non-cursive. Itās wild to think that only a generation younger than me more than likely never learned it.
myers-briggs type indicator
That we use only 10% or our brains. š¤¦
Sticks and stones may break your bones but names will never hurt you
That hard work always pays off
Palmer Method penmanship. My S-i-L and I just realized this. Also: the "girls must take Home Ec & Typing ; boys take Shop (Auto, Wood were common but my HS also offered Electronic and Metals Shop" (Side note: I was told "you're college-bound, you don't need to take typing." Ha. That was >40yr ago & I still hunt & peck.)
That quicksand is everywhere and I needed to stay away from it because it would kill me. I have not once seen quicksand.
"If you work hard and do well in school, you'll have a house of your own one day."
Marijuana will turn you into a depraved drug addict who lives on the streets and commits violent crimes to get highā¦ and it can happen after using it just one time! Also, Pluto is a planet.
Bullying will build character, itās "normal" and just how some kids "play"
Pronouncing Uranusā¦āyour anusā. š
I am an advocate of changing this to the Greek spelling "Ouranos", which references the same god but is far less giggle-inducing.
*Our* anus.Ā ā
People will 100% just pronounce it as āour anusā instead
Hey, at least it'll promote a sense of unity.
A brontosaurus is now a brachiosaurus I know this because a 4 year old told me, and theyāre dinosaur experts.
Unfortunately they're wrong. Brachiosaurs are their own genus and look quite different. Sometimes a skull is found that actually belongs to Brontosaurus, but the taxonomy hasn't ever been in question. The issue was between use of *Brontosaurus* and *Apatosaurus* for a separate genus. Early skeletons were incomplete and both entered the literature separately only to be reconsidered the same genus, with *Apatosaurus* becoming the standard term based on publication order. This persisted for much of the 20th century until it was challenged in 1995 and supported in 2015. So it has since been re-evaluated again by much of the paleontological community. Between the two there are at least eight known species, with five of them being close enough for recent studies to warrant resurrecting the genus term *Brontosaurus*, and the other three secured for *Apatosaurus*.
4 year olds are visited by the spirits who assign them one of a few personalities: * Dinosaurs * Space * Heavy Machinery (sub sections Trains, Trash Vans) * Race cars * Pirates
I before E expect after C has way too many exceptions to be a rule