Everything You Learned In School Is A Lie

"It's not a lie if you believe it." - George Costanza

So I stressed for two decades just to be told everything wasn’t proven yet

I remember debating my teacher in elementary school that the wear in the limestone around The Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt was water erosion and she flat out told me that was wrong because the history book we had said the sphinx was the same age as the pyramids, and now we have proven it is much older, and was made when Giza was verdant and had significant rainfall, creating the water erosion around the sphinx we can still see today!

The swimming after eating will make you get stomach cramps one is accurate as hell but I never drowned 😂

I finished high school in the 80s we knew all of this already then, it's nothing new.

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Everything?

I have found that, in teaching children, you have to start very broadly at the expense of nuance to establish general ideas. It is imperative though that that nuance be added rather quickly because if it isn't, that nuance can become destabilizing it harnessed by bad actors.

This is the best format of podcast ever! Smart guys, talking about interesting stuff with a touch of humour!

The food pyramid was actually somewhat upside down when I was in school. Grains and cereals were the worst thing for us. Protein should be the largest of them.