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All UK schools are eligible.
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Thought they were boring and unchallenged this year. Children can handle the latest theories and if they do not fully understand they will appreciate being given the latest information.
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really well come you don't get any from working-class areas?? too disruptive during recording?
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Here's a radical thought for you. Perhaps "disruptive" kids don't feel the need to travel to the Royal Institution in order to be disruptive. Perhaps they have other outlets.
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it always seems to be posh kids that get invited, why not some rough inner city kids???
By the way, the World Record Lemon Battery. They showed a meter with a thousand on it and "don't worry about the units", what were they measuring? Was that the output in MilliVolts? I presume the lemons were all in series. Was the record for largest number of lemons, highest voltage, highest current ........ |
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Though all schools may be eligible one presumes that the school selects which pupils get the tickets.
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Presumably. And presumably no pupil is forced to go, so everyone who is there wants to be there. And RI members are also eligible for the ballot, further skewing the demographic towards kids who are interested in science.
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really well come you don't get any from working-class areas?? too disruptive during recording?
I went to one of these lectures about 20 years ago when I was at school and I'm from a working-class area. Only those of us who expressed an interest in going went. Students who attend are normally those with a strong interest in science and actually want to be there. |
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Though all schools may be eligible one presumes that the school selects which pupils get the tickets.
It wasn't a Christmas one though, no idea how the selection for that works tim |
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At my school they did receive a small number of RI tickets for lectures but they were never for the Christmas ones.
There were never enough for everyone who wanted to go to be able to go, either. I think it was decided by names out of the hat, or a similar method. |
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At my school they did receive a small number of RI tickets for lectures but they were never for the Christmas ones.
There were never enough for everyone who wanted to go to be able to go, either. I think it was decided by names out of the hat, or a similar method. |
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Many of those pursuing science to degree level go into finance/accounting and the like and further the sciences are seen as 'nerdy'.
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Look at how many in the media and arts are proud to admit that they were 'never any good at maths and science' and wear it like a badge of honour. I have met very few scientists who are proud at their lack of knowledge of art, literature or music, indeed many scientists have a love of those things too.
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I see nothing wrong in inviting those children interested in science. The problem we have in this country is we are failing to educate and train enough scientists. Many of those pursuing science to degree level go into finance/accounting and the like and further the sciences are seen as 'nerdy'. Look at how many in the media and arts are proud to admit that they were 'never any good at maths and science' and wear it like a badge of honour. I have met very few scientists who are proud at their lack of knowledge of art, literature or music, indeed many scientists have a love of those things too.
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As an engineer I am proud that I do not waste my time reading novels (and I class any fiction as a 'novel').
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As an engineer I am proud that I do not waste my time reading novels (and I class any fiction as a 'novel').
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As an engineer I am proud that I do not waste my time reading novels (and I class any fiction as a 'novel').
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I have met very few scientists who are proud at their lack of knowledge of art, literature or music, indeed many scientists have a love of those things too.
Same with paintings. I took a science degree and didn't even bother going to art classes at school. Is my life lacking because of that? Absolutely not. I can spot the odd Caravaggio or Monet when it appears on University Challenge just as easily as the teams can. But is it worth 3 years of your life and £tens of thousands in debt? Not at all. Vastly overrated. |
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Very poor I thought.
Hydrogen Fuel Cell: You put hydrogen in and out comes electricity. Not even the simplest explanation of how one works. Where was the science? |
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As a engineer for some 35 years now I can identify with that, I can read any technical manual front to back but a novel holds no interest for me whatsoever & to date I have never read one.
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Perhaps he would not be acceptable as he isn't an academic but James May would make an excellent presenter on the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. It is well worth remembering that the BBC's front man on NASA's space program and the moon landings, James Burke had no science qualifications.
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So Dickens, the Brontes, Orwell, Hugo, and Ian McEwan (for the sake of a shortlist) are all "a waste of time?
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How many rough inner city kids applied for tickets?
By the way, the World Record Lemon Battery. They showed a meter with a thousand on it and "don't worry about the units", what were they measuring? Was that the output in MilliVolts? I presume the lemons were all in series. Was the record for largest number of lemons, highest voltage, highest current ........ How was this science in any way when science of any form is the meticulous study and recording of details. "It was 1000 somethings or other" doesn't cut it at all. |
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It was another demo where they were not specific about the unit of measurement, not the lemon battery record breaking one.
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It was another demo where they were not specific about the unit of measurement, not the lemon battery record breaking one.
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That said, I am confused why a AAA battery holds less energy than a AA battery. You would expect it to hold 50% more?
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