What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?
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Yeah, you start seeing the full multiverse. It's crazy.
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I had a substitute teacher who saw the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth ads against John Kerry and repeated it to the class like it was 100% fact.
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That glass is actually a very thick liquid. It's actually much weirder than that. https://gizmodo.com/the-glass-is-a-liquid-myth-has-finally-been-destroyed-496190894
I tried to argue this with a science teacher who chose that specific material for a question about phases, and I assumed she was asking for this tricky reason. She marked me wrong and wouldn't accept my personal research on the topic as makeup. I was humiliated. I hope she's dead now.
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Some children are taught in school that God created the earth. Some of us were allowed to learn that humans cannot effect climate change, allowed to discuss it openly, and allowed to graduate with that idea without ever being corrected. Children are being taught today that slavery and colonialism were good things for some people.
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Racism used to be a problem until Lincoln and MLK fixed it.
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There's essentially no difference between reps and dems tbh
"Essentially no different" is overselling it. "A lot less difference than there should be" is better.
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Just the cancer causing it does. I'd read a study on it one time, I believe it's accurate.
Mouthwash cancer?
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Pretty much that but also ability to use tools and basic knowledge of air conditioning etc
how do I find a data center role in particular? normally i am searching "Linux" to get devops roles.
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I was taught that Pluto is a planet. How could they have been so wrong???
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Were you guys eating coffee grounds in your 5th grade science class? Your next teacher either hated it because you guys were bouncing off the walls or loved it because you were all wide awake and paying attention.
A tiny amount on like a q-tip. Not enough to effect anything except flavor
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Basically everything I can recall being told in D.A.R.E program classes (war on drugs era propaganda taught in public schools in the USA) was utter nonsense and fabricated bullshit. After actually having personal experience with most of the substances they vilified, none of the effects - good or ill - are what I was taught in that ridiculous program.
On the contrary, some of the fear tactics they used made me curious to investigate on my own. The breathlessly scared rural teacher describing the mind bending effects that "magic mushrooms" was supposed to have sounded fascinating to teenage me. In reality, they are very fun and therapeutic to use, but nothing like the wild Alice in Wonderland mind journey they made it sound like it would be.
The only hallucinogen that lives up to D.A.R.E hype is DMT. Things like mushrooms and LSD will give funny visuals and help you think in a different perspective, but you're still "you" and still on Earth.
DMT though? You can straight up leave this reality and lose yourself if you take enough. You can see things and creatures that couldn't possibly exist. You can meet God, and live entire lifetimes before crashing back into reality 15-20 minutes later.
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Hear about pluto? Pretty messed up huh?
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Hear about pluto? Pretty messed up huh?
You know that's right!
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Glass is a liquid. It's not. It's not a crystalline solid so it has an internal structure similar to a liquid, but the structure is very much solid at room temperature and the components are not capable of moving relative to each other like a liquid would.
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Glass is a liquid. It's not. It's not a crystalline solid so it has an internal structure similar to a liquid, but the structure is very much solid at room temperature and the components are not capable of moving relative to each other like a liquid would.
It's also not the reason church windows are thicker at the bottom, a common myth that my ex-colleague with a PhD in polymer chemistry(!) somehow bought into
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how do I find a data center role in particular? normally i am searching "Linux" to get devops roles.
I stumbled into it by word of mouth in my case. I started out doing IT for public schools which gave me some experience with racking stuff, security cams, basic electrical work, etc
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Were you guys eating coffee grounds in your 5th grade science class? Your next teacher either hated it because you guys were bouncing off the walls or loved it because you were all wide awake and paying attention.
We were each given like a quarter teaspoon of grounds and a toothpick.
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It's also not the reason church windows are thicker at the bottom, a common myth that my ex-colleague with a PhD in polymer chemistry(!) somehow bought into
Glass not being a polymer still does suggest they're talking out of turn
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Mouthwash cancer?
A lot of mouthwash uses alcohol, which does cause oral cancer
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Glass not being a polymer still does suggest they're talking out of turn
Not a polymer but an amorphous solid like many polymers; I believe she popped that nugget while explaining crystallinity and glass transitions. She was quite knowledgeable otherwise but that little false factoid must have slipped through.
