Interesting Links for 19-06-2025
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andrewducker- 1. Doctor uses robot to remotely perform surgery on patient thousands of miles away
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- 2. General-purpose robots are very nearly here
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- 3. How roundabouts transformed Carmel, Indiana
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- 4. Beware the gaze of raccoons!
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- 5. Banning smartphones in schools has little or no impact on the wellbeing of students or their education or on the prevalence of online bullying
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- 6. A Provocative Argument About What Creates Serial Killers (possibly Heavy Metals)
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- 7. Scottish Government advice on school uniforms now says that you shouldn't need branded items.
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Date: 2025-06-19 03:47 pm (UTC)The surgeon came and did it in person, which allowed the local specialists to see how it was done.
The machine was used by a different specialty for a different purpose; the guy in the States had used it for reason my friend needed it.
Branded Uniform
Date: 2025-06-19 09:35 pm (UTC)One argument I have heard for branded uniform is that it stops poorer children from being singled out for not having the "in" brand.
A decent school will have ways of ensuring that everyone can get the branded gear, whether it is by a second-hand market, subsidy or actually paying for the uniform of those in need. Of course that only eliminates the issue of poverty, not that of not being "in the know", and moves the stigma from the child to the parent.
A ban on a single brand policy risks those who can afford a better quality becoming a snobbish elite that look down on those that cannot.
Of course, wearing second-hand or inherited hand-me-downs risks hurtful remarks whatever the brand.
Re: Branded Uniform
Date: 2025-06-19 10:28 pm (UTC)And many other countries in Europe have no school uniforms and seem to survive perfectly well.
Re: Branded Uniform
Date: 2025-06-20 10:55 am (UTC)The stories I have read about US schools suggest that clothings choices are a significant part of dividing the children into different groups: geeks, jocks, "the in crowd" etc. Whether that is reality, and which is cause and which is effect ...