[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Sheffield University said the mathematician may have benefited from "colonial-era activity" as it looks to overhaul its physics curriculum
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Physics without Newton?
If the west really want to 'decolonize' education, they should stop dictating pedagogical norms to the rest of the world.
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It may be a matter of historical interest if Newton always missed the spittoon or once kicked a cat or was an otherwise horrible person. But the important question is "Was he right about that gravity stuff?" And the answer is "Yeah, pretty much."
The dude changed the world. What have you done, my little social justice monkeys?
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Newton was a broke land owner who was brilliant enough to get a full-ride to college when most people didn't attend any school. He developed calculus (though curiously we mostly use the notation developed by Leibnitz) and used it to describe the motion of the planets and projectiles.
Then he was put in charge of the mint and fought counterfeiting and coin-shaving.
He had as much to do with any colonization as the Yananamo had to do with landing on the moon.
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until they invent a time machine that can take someone back, prevent 'colonisation' and prove that the world is a better place without everything they are fighting against, they can shove it
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Notice that these 'judges' swim and live in a society that wouldn't exist without Western Civilization. Wonder how many could survive in a 18th or 19th Century environment. The people who lived 100 years ago had more in common with the people who lived 1000 years ago, than we have in common with the people who lived 100 years ago.
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Newtown used apostrophes for notation ( f' )and there is an old comment that "...double check book formulas because sometimes a flyspeck makes for an 'extra' differentiation..." Leibniz's dx/dt just flat works better.
[NYPOST] Two Washington DC officers crashed and totaled their police vehicles while drag racing on duty last week, a report said.
The cops from the Metropolitan Police Department raced each other on Thursday at about 5 p.m. on Anacostia Avenue near Kenilworth Park, hitting speeds of at least 60 mph, Fox 5 DC reported, citing an internal email and sources.
Commander Durriyyah Habeebullah ripped the officers’ actions in the email sent to department management following the crash.
"Yesterday two 6D scout cars were totaled because officers decided instead of fighting crime, patrolling their beats, or engaging the community — they decided to drag race each other on Anacostia Avenue at 5 pm in the evening," Habeebullah worte.
"What does this say to all the members of MPD who are passionate about their job and work hard every day to make a difference. This is not fair to any of us," she says.
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Screw the cars, and these guys need constant practice anyway, with Furious 9 releasing shortly. The only part of this news that I would worry about is the name of the police district commander.
Loveland Police Officers Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali arrested Karen Garner, 73, on June 26, 2020, after she left Walmart without paying $13-worth of items
Footage from Hopp's body-camera shows him slamming Garner, who has dementia, to the ground, causing her to fracture her elbow and dislocate her arm
New video released by an attorney for Garner's family on Monday purportedly showed the officers laughing at body-camera footage of the arrest hours later
Hopp is heard saying: 'Ready for the pop?' at the moment Garner's arm came out of its socket
Attorney Sarah Schielke said while the officers laughed and fist-bumped over the video Garner sat a few feet away in a cell crying in pain
Schielke filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Hopp on April 15
State prosecutors subsequently opened a criminal investigation into Hopp, Jalali and their supervisor, Sgt Phil Metzler
[EpochTimes] Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed into law a bill that bans transgender student-athletes from competing on K—12 public school single-sex teams that match their gender identity, making her state the second in the nation to enact such a ban.
House Bill 391, which was overwhelmingly approved by the Republican-controlled state legislature last week, mandates that those who aren’t biologically male or female won’t be able to participate in school-sponsored sports events that are inconsistent with their sex assigned at birth.
"A public K-12 school may not allow a biological female to participate on a male team if there is a female team in a sport," the bill reads. "A public K-12 school may never allow a biological male to participate on a female team."
According to the bill, it’s important to make sure sports teams remain separate and sex-specific so that female athletes can have equal opportunity to compete, considering inherent athletic advantages for biological males including, on average, a larger body size, more skeletal muscle mass, lower percentage of body fat, and greater maximal delivery of anaerobic and aerobic energy.
The bill doesn’t specify how student-athletes can prove their biological sex, although its earlier version said that will be determined by their birth certificates.
Already this year, Arkansas, South Dakota, Mississippi, and Tennessee also joined Idaho’s 2020 ban on transgender athletes in school sports, which was later blocked by a federal judge and is currently pending legal review. Tennessee was the first U.S. state to ban both transgender girls and boys from participating in corresponding single-sex school sports, while all others only ban transgender girls. South Dakota’s ban was enacted by executive order, not by legislation.
The states’ legislative efforts came as the Biden administration pushed to open up single-sex spaces and competitions to members of the opposite sex, depending on the person’s stated gender identity. An executive order signed by President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences... on his first day in the White House states that it’s the new administration’s policy to make sure children are able to "learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports."
Miguel Cardona, who was confirmed in March as the new U.S. secretary of education, also said during his Senate confirmation hearing that he believes it’s the right of male-born transgender students to compete in girls’ sports.
"I think it’s critically important to respect the rights of all students, including students who are transgender, and that they are afforded the opportunities that every other student has to participate in extracurricular actives," Cardona said at the time.
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So, for the next few days corporate America and the media will thunder from on high about how eeeevil and bigoted this law is. I'm really looking forward to more of that bullshit, yessiree!
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Other than Planned Parenthood making money off the transition procedures, I don't get the media/Dem Party's obsession with Transgenders. They really do not make up a significant part of the population or have financial clout. Someone explain to me why the hoopla? Not a joke, I don't get it.
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^ I suppose spreading neuroses of several kinds across communities is in the best interest of the Left? An informed, well adjusted human being makes for a troublesome subject.
Given enough special rights and hype, each is a Rook on the Social Chessboard.
Was watching TV last night; channel has their pro-wrestling who advertising the reason to watch this season is the transistor wrestler. See, even if you don't, you suffer the commercial and get called a hater for 30 seconds. After a full movie, you have received (at least) your 2 minutes of hater - in addition to the culturally deprived other shows being pushed and BLMBA skits.
[EpochTimes] China’s population is aging and the number of births has plummeted. The Central Bank of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has published a paper calling for full liberalization and encouragement of childbearing.
Some experts say that for economic reasons and overall war preparedness, Chinese Leader Xi Jinping may fully lift the birth restrictions.
On April 14, the CCP Central Bank published a working paper titled "Understanding and Countermeasures on Population Transition" on its official WeChat account. The paper pointed out that compared with developed countries, China is facing a more rapidly growing aging population and a more serious declining birth rate.
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Yeah I don't see a downside to planning a war with a countdown clock.
I believe the thinking goes like this:
1) War with X is inevitable
2) We cannot improve our position vs X over time. Worse, X's advantages may accumulate.
Therefore: the likelihood of success is better now
The Japanese made the same calculation vs the US in the 40's and decided to attack Pearl Harbor.
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Of the live births, which are now at perhaps 12,000,000 a year, for a long time and perhaps today most were males.
If that rate were to continue, and the decreasing number of females of childbearing age and urbanization continue and people live to an average of 80. there are a billion chinese, and less then half a billion in ages 20 to 60.
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[AlAhram] Seven other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, all of them members of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the Western defence alliance NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... , have expelled Russian diplomats in recent weeks, triggering reciprocal measures by Moscowl
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences...
[EpochTimes] China’s population is aging and the number of births has plummeted. The Central Bank of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has published a paper calling for full liberalization and encouragement of childbearing.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
