Posted January 8, 2012 at 3:56pm
Once we have computer outlets in every home, each of them hooked up to enormous libraries where anyone can ask any question and be given answers, be given reference materials, be something you’re interested in knowing, from an early age, however silly it might seem to someone else… that’s what YOU are interested in, and you can ask, and you can find out, and you can do it in your own home, at your own speed, in your own direction, in your own time… Then, everyone would enjoy learning. Nowadays, what people call learning is forced on you, and everyone is forced to learn the same thing on the same day at the same speed in class, and everyone is different.
— Isaac Asimov (via igrigorik)
(Source: brainpickings.org, via igrigorik)
But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
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What is the single best thing we can do for our health? Dr. Mike Evans studies preventative medicine, and he’s found the #1 intervention to reduce the risk of just about everything.
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