a topicthis has been, capital has been the main–if not the only–way of achieving progress, even in voilently anticapitalist, socialist countries. A dam, a hospital, a university, a cathedral, or a national park cannot be built without using up resources that would be easier to consume immediately, and none of them would be built at all unless they were believed to provide some greater returns in the future.Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"EVOLUTIONARY is a play on the word "REVOLUTIONARY", and I mean it to convey something of the revolutionary nature of evolution as an idea. Evolutionaries are revolutionaries, with all the personal and philosophical commitment that word implies.
They are not merely curious bystanders to the evolutionary process, passive believers in the established sciences of evolution, though all certainly value those insights.
They are committed activists and advocates - often passionate ones - for the importance of evolution at a cultural level."- Carter Phipps - EVOLUTIONARIES -Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science's Greatest Idea.
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The answer to this could help the assessor to understand which of the four strengths the person
might fit into, they then could potentially develop or discard that theory during the assessment.
This could lead to specific strategies in the recommendations part of the report.
For example:
M-strength - children that create, build, make e.g. Lego
I-strength - children that develop a keen interest in a specialist field e.g. botany
N-strength - children who can create complex stories, who can ‘see’ and imagine vivid scenes e.g. writing stories, plays
D-strength - children who invent, recreate and develop ideas e.g. merge Lego, Meccano and their train track in order to create the desired result.
We would love to hear from anybody using strategies like these who would like to share findings.
Information taken from: Eide, B & Eide, F. (2011) The Dyslexic Advantage. London: Hay House UK Ltd.
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Corners
Hot Air Balloon race where the balloons, take off from identifiable
points on the ground, and as a each balloon gradually climbs
naturally to the right whilst traversing the states of Arizona, Utah,
Colorado, and New Mexico, they finally return to the take off site
and the balloon which lands closest to it's take off position is
declared the winner.
... when [IT] came to the time that our Bucks Hot Air Balloon Group needed to replace our trusty original Balloon Canopy et al, I was volunteered to take charge of the Design Process and so the play on words [BuckSHOT] IDEA of utilising the fact that farmers have been known to use a blunderbuss and buckshot to deter balloonists from flying too low over their livestock, I came up with the IDEA of Buckshot [BE]ing fired at the balloon and was subsequently able to secure the registration G-SHOT from the Civil Aviation Authority.
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f communication. Peter Russell’s notion of the Global Brain (1982) builds on the
electronic communication and nervous system metaphor of the noosphere to establish the idea
of the noosphere as a planetary global brain. Buckminster Fuller’s concepts for developing a
whole system design perception of the Earth - Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of
Thinking (1975) and Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969) - are also fundamental to a
theory of the noosphere as intrinsic to a view of the planet as an evolving organism, an
idea also articulated in James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis (1981).
Sheldrake has proposed that memories are better understood in terms of morphic resonance, a
process whereby patterns of activity in the past resonate with patterns in the present on the basis
of similarity, with this resonance passing across or through space and time from the past to the
present. He has discussed this hypothesis in detail in his book The Presence of the Past and it is
summarised in his book Science Set Free/The Science Delusion in Chapter 7.
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the qualitative enhancement &
advancement of the EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS. The future of that
process, however, since the outset of homo-sapiens-sapiens,
has been in the "hands" and MINDs of OUR species. A species
which is driven by the dual concepts of ... benefit for the
individual and benefit for the collective. Concepts which
can so easily be diverted to the use of the power of knowledge ...
for GOOD or EVIL.
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technologies for the detection of aircraft and ships • capabilities that were sorely lacking in 1940 • in conjunction with the British and their 10cm cavity magnetron, by means of the basic structure of a program that would develop the radar technology that subsequently had a decisive role in the Allied victory of World War II.
Following on from Dr. Bush’s idea of a ”MEMEX” in 1945 • Doug Engelbart, who was best known as the inventor of the mouse, but also came up with the idea of screens, and windows, and "hypertext", clickable links in text that could take you from document to document • IT WAS of course Apple Computers that put together the very first practical and demonstrable version of Bush's ”MEMEX”; developments of which Tim Berners Lee was able to avail himself, to create the Hyper Text Transmission Protocol [http://], the World Wide Web [www] and the concept of a Browser, which became Netscape, to establish THE new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge
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Added by Michael Grove at 9:30 on September 17, 2021