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"A friend recently said that schools are so important because it's the only time when everyone is exposed to science. I couldn't agree more. Not because it means a load of young people will have to sit in a room while a teacher bangs on about some super-important topic or another, but because these young people will have to do so together. Before we go about the ever-so-modern business of specialisation, school is a time where we can build shared experiences and so sow the seeds for trust between those who grow up to be scientists (or historians, or any other specialist) and everyone else."
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What is an energy balance device? I don't really know - but I am going to show you how to make one. I am going to call an 'energy balance device' something that you wear and it gives you better performance in balance type tasks.
Here is a video in which I show the device and how it works.
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"It's another interactive invective! Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi's rambling rants are now fully customizable. Create a realistic hard-line speech by inserting your own bizarre words into the colonel's actual defiant address."
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