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Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved

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On 9/8/2015 10:02 PM, benj wrote:
> On 09/08/2015 10:24 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>>> On 9/8/2015 3:35 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
>>>> New research suggests that one of humanity?s most important inventions
>>>> can be improved
>>>>> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/

>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     If one thinks this doesn't apply to reading physics texts, one
>>>>     would be wrong.
>>>>

>>>
>>> who speed reads physics textbooks ??
>>>
>>> -- only one who already knows the material.

>> Therein lies the rub; only a very few people can speed read mathematics
>> with understanding and any decent physic text is heavy with mathematics,
>> except of those of the spamming ass hat which are heavy with cardboard
>> pop ups.

> Gosh, Good old SciAm! They are impressed that the visiting MIT professor
> discovered that some fonts are easier to read than others and that
> unlike a hand-drawn book by a scribe they are very easy to change with
> today's computer technology! Wow! That is HERB level thinking! Oh ya!
> Give SciAm the Nobel prize in science journalism!

if they give SciAm a price, it must be in Arial Narrow size 4, and give 
them bottle glasses to read it.

Then give SciAm THE "prize" for having the most  "non-scientific 
contract journalists",

and also for revising "scientific articles", that previously excluded 
most american peoples, into more inclusive "political sciency-like 
conjector and speculation articles" for the masses.

>
> Years ago I took speed reading courses with wild claims of reading 1000
> words a minute etc. with total comprehension. Well, hardly. Sure,
> getting rid of some bad habits helps. And if you are reading a bunch of
> liberal fantasy bullshit you can blast right through it grabbing the
> high points. But REAL reading isn't like that. REAL reading is reading
> with thinking and assimilation. Obviously Wormley never does any real
> reading. No wonder he loves the fantasies at phys.org.

he should go to the source of the phys.org articles, read thoses,
most of them do *not agree at all* with the spin *phys.org* puts on them.

>
> The bottom line for me was this: Speed reading techniques can indeed
> boost your reading speed. And eliminating time-wasting habits is good.
> BUT what happens is that greater speed at comprehension levels takes
> greater concentration. In short, the more effort and energy you put into
> reading the faster you can go! But nobody really wants to do that all
> the time. Sure maybe in an emergency (exam tomorrow and you haven't done
> squat yet) the added effort pays off, but normally it's just something
> you can do but really usually don't want to bother with.

so true,
I just read that last paragraph, 96 words, in less than 4 seconds or at 
more than 1,440 words per min.

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New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 15:35 -0500
  Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 21:09 +0000
    Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 16:20 -0500
      Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 14:37 -0700
        Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 21:52 +0000
          Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 05:43 -0700
      Re: Spamming ass hat repastes crap jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 21:46 +0000
  Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 16:39 -0700
  Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-08 18:57 -0500
    Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-09 02:24 +0000
      Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 21:38 -0500
        Re: die spammer, die jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-09 03:36 +0000
      Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 23:02 -0400
        Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-09 07:17 -0500
      Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 23:27 -0400
  Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved HVAC <Mr.HVAC@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 05:55 -0400

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