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| Charli939 wrote: |
rob@rar, Thanks  I'm sure that I would if I needed to, although I'm not much of a thread-starter, more of a thread contributor (and that's probably a very glamourous name for the piffle I post  ). That said, I did start one recently - on dog chemo - which was something I needed some info on quickly and some  s were very kind as to post replies to that, which was very helpful. So its not beyond the realms of possibility that I may start one again at some point. But BZK for the most part (as [b]boredsurfin correctly alluded to) is a little high brow for me and so I shall most likely slink off back to DC where the rubbish I post is more in keeping [/b] 
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Hi, Charli939. For some of us here, folks like you are the very audience we're trying to help with our posts, and we'd hate if some of the more detailed discussions were to chase you away. Like rob@rar says, please ask any question you have, even the most basic in nature. Someone most times will respond, and usually will construct the response in accordance with the level of the question.
And don't for a second think any question you ask might be too basic for this forum. Most times there are many readers just sitting back wondering the same thing, too intimidated to ask. If one person speaks up, many can benefit. And even in the context of an ongoing technical thread, such a question can bring the thread back to earth and in doing so expand the number of people who can extract value from it.
Bend ze Knees carries the potiential to help skiers of all levels learn something they can take to the snow to improve their skiing. Each person simply needs to filter through and extract that which is geared toward where they happen to currently be in their personal learning journey. It will be different for each person,,, but for each person the information they need can be found or provided on request.
And stay tuned. In the near future I will be launching my website. I plan on writing a number of technical articles geared specifically towards skiers at the beginner and intermediate level, and putting them up on the site. As I produce them I will start theads here with links to them so we can initiate conversation, and the pros here can field questions. Hopefully that will help expand the percentage of content on BZK's directly geared towards the non-pro.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Charli939 as FastMan, says no question is too basic for BZK - I think in recent history I probably hold the crown for some of the most seemingly obvious questions posted - and it is fair to say a respectable number have not been as easy to answer as some may think and often more experienced skiers have posted that they have been educated by the comments in the thread - in particular I recall that a question on 'piste poles' was particularly enlightening. I tend to go with the 'ask away and sod the consequences' route at least that way you should end up with answers to questions somewhere in the ensuing thread.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hi Fastman, thank you for your reply and interesting comments. All joking aside, I can honestly say that I have learnt a great deal from all areas of s, including BZK where, on occasion, I have grasped the subject matter and the posts.
| FastMan wrote: |
And stay tuned. In the near future I will be launching my website. I plan on writing a number of technical articles geared specifically towards skiers at the beginner and intermediate level, and putting them up on the site. As I produce them I will start theads here with links to them so we can initiate conversation, and the pros here can field questions. Hopefully that will help expand the percentage of content on BZK's directly geared towards the non-pro. |
This sounds to me like a great idea and one which, I'm sure, will attract some of us that are less skilled  One thing that may be a useful suggestion for those levels that you are aiming at is some information on piste marking, emergency procedures etc. Just a thought, but I managed to get to 7 weeks of skiing (with group and private lessons) before discovering that there is a reason the poles on the right side of the piste are marked differently to the left - fairly important information in a white out and I learnt about crossed skis above an accident from a leaflet buried in an infopack dished out by a TO on the transfer coach one year. 
Apologies if this is a duplication of your thread Megamum, I hadn't read it... but will now endeavour to do so
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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epistemology (ĭpĭs'təmŏl`əjē) [Gr.,=knowledge or science], the branch of philosophy that is directed toward theories of the sources, nature, and limits of knowledge. Since the 17th cent. epistemology has been one of the fundamental themes of philosophers, who were necessarily obliged to coordinate the theory of knowledge with developing scientific thought. Réné Descartes
and other philosophers (e.g., Baruch Spinoza, G. W. Leibniz, and Blaise Pascal) sought to retain the belief in the existence of innate (a priori) ideas together with an acceptance of the values of data and ideas derived from experience (a posteriori). This position was basically that of rationalism.Opposed to it later was empiricism, notably as expounded by John Locke, David Hume, and John Stuart Mill, which denied the existence of innate ideas altogether.
The impressive critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant had immense effects in an attempt to combine the two views. In later theories the split was reflected in idealism and materialism.
The causal theory of knowledge, advanced by Alfred North Whitehead and others, stressed the role of the nervous system as intermediary between an object and the perception of it. The methods of perceiving, obtaining, and validating data derived from sense experience has been central to pragmatism, with the teachings of C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Sir Karl Popper developed the view that scientific knowledge rests on hypotheses that, while they cannot be positively verified, can be proven false and have withstood repeated attempts to show that they are. Philosophers in the 20th cent. have criticized and revised the traditional view that knowledge is justified true belief. A springboard for their research has been the thesis that all knowledge is theory-laden.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Evolutionary ideas such as common descent and the transmutation of species have existed since at least the 6th century BC, when they were expounded by the Greek philosopher Anaximander. Others who considered such ideas included the Greek philosopher Empedocles, the Roman philosopher-poet Lucretius, the Arab biologist Al-Jahiz, the Persian philosopher Ibn Miskawayh, the Brethren of Purity, and the Eastern philosopher Zhuangzi. As biological knowledge grew in the 18th century, evolutionary ideas were set out by a few natural philosophers including Pierre Maupertuis in 1745 and Erasmus Darwin in 1796. The ideas of the biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck about transmutation of species had wide influence. Charles Darwin formulated his idea of natural selection in 1838 and was still developing his theory in 1858 when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him a similar theory, and both were presented to the Linnean Society of London in separate papers. At the end of 1859 Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species explained natural selection in detail and presented evidence leading to increasingly wide acceptance of the occurrence of evolution.
Gregor Mendel, who laid the foundation for genetics.
Debate about the mechanisms of evolution continued, and Darwin could not explain the source of the heritable variations which would be acted on by natural selection. Like Lamarck, he thought that parents passed on adaptations acquired during their lifetimes, a theory which was subsequently dubbed Lamarckism. In the 1880s August Weismann's experiments indicated that changes from use and disuse were not heritable, and Lamarckism gradually fell from favour. More significantly, Darwin could not account for how traits were passed down from generation to generation. In 1865 Gregor Mendel found that traits were inherited in a predictable manner. When Mendel's work was rediscovered in 1900, disagreements over the rate of evolution predicted by early geneticists and biometricians led to a rift between the Mendelian and Darwinian models of evolution.
This contradiction was reconciled in the 1930s by biologists such as Ronald Fisher. The end result was a combination of evolution by natural selection and Mendelian inheritance, the modern evolutionary synthesis. In the 1940s, the identification of DNA as the genetic material by Oswald Avery and colleagues and the subsequent publication of the structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953, demonstrated the physical basis for inheritance. Since then, genetics and molecular biology have become core parts of evolutionary biology and have revolutionized the field of phylogenetics.
In its early history, evolutionary biology primarily drew in scientists from traditional taxonomically-oriented disciplines, whose specialist training in particular organisms addressed general questions in evolution. As evolutionary biology expanded as an academic discipline, particularly after the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis, it began to draw more widely from the biological sciences.Currently the study of evolutionary biology involves scientists from fields as diverse as biochemistry, ecology, genetics and physiology, and evolutionary concepts are used in even more distant disciplines such as psychology, medicine, philosophy and computer science
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In spite of all its faults, if it wasn't for Wikipedia I would not have been informed of the existence of vinegar eels.
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Megamum,
Happy Birthday
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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| SMALLZOOKEEPER wrote: |
epistemology (ĭpĭs'təmŏl`əjē) [Gr.,=knowledge or science], the branch of philosophy that is directed toward theories of the sources, nature, and limits of knowledge. Since the 17th cent. epistemology has been one of the fundamental themes of philosophers, who were necessarily obliged to coordinate the theory of knowledge with developing scientific thought. Réné Descartes
and other philosophers (e.g., Baruch Spinoza, G. W. Leibniz, and Blaise Pascal) sought to retain the belief in the existence of innate (a priori) ideas together with an acceptance of the values of data and ideas derived from experience (a posteriori). This position was basically that of rationalism.Opposed to it later was empiricism, notably as expounded by John Locke, David Hume, and John Stuart Mill, which denied the existence of innate ideas altogether.
The impressive critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant had immense effects in an attempt to combine the two views. In later theories the split was reflected in idealism and materialism.
The causal theory of knowledge, advanced by Alfred North Whitehead and others, stressed the role of the nervous system as intermediary between an object and the perception of it. The methods of perceiving, obtaining, and validating data derived from sense experience has been central to pragmatism, with the teachings of C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Sir Karl Popper developed the view that scientific knowledge rests on hypotheses that, while they cannot be positively verified, can be proven false and have withstood repeated attempts to show that they are. Philosophers in the 20th cent. have criticized and revised the traditional view that knowledge is justified true belief. A springboard for their research has been the thesis that all knowledge is theory-laden. |
Sir Karl Popper
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but why are people so horrid to each other here 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Yoda, I like Motl's blog, but I'm not very impressed by that article. It actually says that all philosophical examination of science is useless (even dangerous). Popper is used as an example - and then he's misrepresented, at least in places. For example, Popper did not "deny the existence of induction in science". He merely said that nothing can be proved by it. He did not deny its usefulness in forming plausible conjectures, but in his main works repeated over and over that he was concerned with the testing of conjectures, not their formation.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Charli939 wrote: |
Hi Fastman, thank you for your reply and interesting comments. All joking aside, I can honestly say that I have learnt a great deal from all areas of s, including BZK where, on occasion, I have grasped the subject matter and the posts.
| FastMan wrote: |
And stay tuned. In the near future I will be launching my website. I plan on writing a number of technical articles geared specifically towards skiers at the beginner and intermediate level, and putting them up on the site. As I produce them I will start theads here with links to them so we can initiate conversation, and the pros here can field questions. Hopefully that will help expand the percentage of content on BZK's directly geared towards the non-pro. |
This sounds to me like a great idea and one which, I'm sure, will attract some of us that are less skilled One thing that may be a useful suggestion for those levels that you are aiming at is some information on piste marking, emergency procedures etc. Just a thought, but I managed to get to 7 weeks of skiing (with group and private lessons) before discovering that there is a reason the poles on the right side of the piste are marked differently to the left - fairly important information in a white out and I learnt about crossed skis above an accident from a leaflet buried in an infopack dished out by a TO on the transfer coach one year.
Apologies if this is a duplication of your thread Megamum, I hadn't read it... but will now endeavour to do so |
Thanks, Charli939. Some basic skiing info articles is a very good idea. We're putting the site together as a speak, and have already created a "beginners corner", where we will be placing articles along the lines of what you have suggested.
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