AI is crying out for regulation, while virologists doing gain-of-function research take the opposite tack. Why?
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A plant pundit comments on plants, the foibles and fun of academic life, and other things of interest.
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I would never confuse coca with cocoa, primarily because I find the former so much more useful than the latter, especially when hiking in the Andes (just a pinch between the cheek and gum).
However, I do feel the Phactor's pain. In my experience, students don't write and speak properly because they don't read. Until you can figure out a way to make that happen, which would entail un-inventing television, computer games, the text-message, Facebook, Twitter, etc., you may as well fuhgeddaboudit.
~Shelley
I agree, Shelley. Reading--a lot--is a huge part of literacy, that is learning how to speak and write correctly. I read everything, even comic books and cereal boxes, as a kid.
I thought my young niece would be handicapped by "new spelling" 15 years ago, now it just turns out she's pre-adapted for texting!
Yes, reading is the key, and it doesn't matter much what, and comic books & cereal boxes sounds very familiar. So glad someone else had a childhood like mine. Many of today's college students cannot write anything but childishly simple sentences, which only makes the gap between them and the more literate students even greater.
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