I would like to give them a hug. Anybody else in it?

If you went to school in the 90's like me you don't need one for simple calculations and I find people today rely too heavily on them and don't think that they may have made a typo

Oh, it's been proven all right. Proven to make the 1% richer and dismantle the middle class.

It's not just about learning well, it's about learning something valuable. And realistically, that isn't (and never has been) a guarantee for a good job and a nice future. But it IS a big stepping stone towards one.

I think they can still be problematic though, because some of them trigger the addiction centres of the brain. So the gameplay cycle literally addicts you to the game like people get addicted to gambling or other things. Like most things, I think moderation is a good thing.

*climbs the pyramid, and curls up on the chocolate top*

Our first cat used the shutter's hook to bang on the window when it was closed and she wanted in.

I will not say that the USA is the only country on earth that use the Imperial system. There are others. Like Liberia, Myanmar, and Micronesia. Well over 7 000 000 000 of us use the Metric system.

Wow! That must be an old text book. The lipid cell membrane was known to be flexible in the year 1925, and confirmed in the late 1950s.

To be fair he did discover it. And so did the vikings. And so did the people who crossed the land bridge from Europe wayyyyy before that. Things that are not known by a group get discovered by that group and it doesn't preclude another group who have no awareness of it from discovering it too.

This is misleading, while different taste receptors are spread all over the tongue, they are in fact more common in certain areas. So it is still possible to for example to taste bitterness with the tip of the tongue, however the taste is way more potent on the back of the tongue. Edit: grammar Edit 2: check the comments please, Ace has an important addition

I remember something along those lines too. Pretty tough being in high school and thinking, what will get me first, nuclear war, acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer, starvation because of no fossil fuels or aids.

“I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record.”

I get angry that the education system was still teaching Rutherford's plum pudding model of the atom a full hundred years after it ceased to be relevant.

I went to a boys and girls college (A nod to Forest Gump) after I retired from the military. Lots of things to fill out on the school application. I just wrote "Nope, not doing this section- it was 30 years ago"

Does anyone know where this myth started? I heard it was some chef who was trying to get people in his restaurant. :D

Of course the brontosaurus existed. It was thought to have been a taxonomic synonym of its close relative Apatosaurus, but a 2015 study by Emmanuel Tschopp and colleagues found it to be distinct.

Three languages in a trench coat

Not "an entire generation" but an entire population. There's still a lot we don't fully understand.

I'm curious if anyone had to get together as a class and sing any DARE songs. I still remember the one we did. No amount of drugs has allowed me to forget! but then I mostly just stick to those rx'd to me.

Did anyone actually learn this from teachers or textbooks? I've heard it referenced as being a myth for decades but never heard anyone actually repeat the myth as a fact.

I be to differ, Pluto's a dog!

The global cooling c**p was never a real thing. It took on a life of it's own far after the fact because of global warming deniers. Science never took that seriously. https://journals.ametsoc.org/downloadpdf/journals/bams/89/9/2008bams2370_1.pdf

"basically everything in history class" ? Everything??!! You must have gone to a really c**p school.

Ugh, I hate when this one is brought up because they're trying to oversimplify it. It sounds like they're trying to say you can eat fat and NOT get fat, which is not the case. Fat still has calories (and lots of them). Eat too many calories and you'll get fat, doesn't matter what group (fat, carb or protein) they come from.

I learned in school that the earth had 5 continents. America was seen as one continent comprising of north, central and south america, Australia and all the islands made Oceania, and Antartica was not considered a continent. When my daughter started school, I learned from her now they teach that there are 7 continents! And Oceania no longer exists, it's called Australia.

That's just weird.

This!!! It works for many women but not all. I always, always tell my postnatal women not to depend on it, & when they say they’re never having sex again (news flash- people DO have sex again after childbirth, and often sooner than they think!) I ask them how unhappy they’re going to be to discover they’re pregnant again at their six week check?

Nah, we just used the ocean. 😡