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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: fatboy on February 05, 2015, 10:34:58 AM
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I guess the vaccination meme is starting to run out of steam and needs a little dummy help.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026182377
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 01:52 AM
Star Member hedgehog (34,566 posts)
When i was a child back in the early 60's, I used to take out
library books about the heroes of science:Jenner, Pasteur, Robert Koch, Walter Reed and of course, Jonas Salk.
When did those books become passe?
Sure you did.
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Thu Feb 5, 2015, 02:52 AM
Expat in Korea (116 posts)
3. For me, it was
Encyclopedia Brittanica. I would spend hours and hours reading them in my g'mother's living room. I was a low-maintenance child. They included quite a bit about the lives of great scientists, too
hedgehog just can't remember any of it.
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Thu Feb 5, 2015, 03:55 AM
Hekate (27,634 posts)
5. I did, too. My mom had this great book of biographies of scientists, and I loved it.
Had NO idea how to pronounce Van Leeuwenhoek! Can't remember the name of the book, but another one she had was Gods, Graves, and Scholars about the early archaeologists. I really liked reading about science and scientists.
One thing that happened with my own kids, to my sorrow, was that they never had the hours of free time I had as a kid, in which I could choose to read. I had to work full time, and they had to be in after school activities or with a sitter. There was just not that much unstructured time for them.
Wasn't it John F. Kerry who said "where can I get me one of those scientists biographies?"
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Thu Feb 5, 2015, 09:19 AM
Star Member MineralMan (70,192 posts)
8. Kids are still reading those books, and others.
I read them, too, in the 50s and 60s. Most kids I knew didn't, though. I doubt that much has changed in that regard. Most kids never read those books or any other books not assigned to them. A few kids, like you and me, read them because we wanted to read them. I don't think that will ever change
And I don't think MM will ever be anything other than a rockhead.
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I don't believe a word of any of this.
I read profusely as a child (still do), mostly science books, also the World Book Encyclopedia (and their Childcraft books series as well).
I never became a liberal, and I sure ain't no DUmmie.
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I don't believe a word of any of this.
I read profusely as a child (still do), mostly science books, also the World Book Encyclopedia (and their Childcraft books series as well).
I never became a liberal, and I sure ain't no DUmmie.
Are the libs saying that if I read too much I will become one of them ?
I better stop reading.
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Are the libs saying that if I read too much I will become one of them ?
I better stop reading.
Oh, no, quite the opposite.
I'm saying the DUmmies are lying about how much they read.
I doubt any of them even finished a comic book, which is also as close as many of them got to any real "science".
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I don't believe a word of any of this.
I read profusely as a child (still do), mostly science books, also the World Book Encyclopedia (and their Childcraft books series as well).
I never became a liberal, and I sure ain't no DUmmie.
I thought I was the only one who read the Encyclopedia when I was a kid. My grandma had them on her bookshelf; and I would just thumb through the pages and read the items that caught my attention (usually the ones with cool pictures, I have to admit). She also had Yearbooks published by World Book. I wish I still had those.
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I thought I was the only one who read the Encyclopedia when I was a kid. My grandma had them on her bookshelf; and I would just thumb through the pages and read the items that caught my attention (usually the ones with cool pictures, I have to admit). She also had Yearbooks published by World Book. I wish I still had those.
You sound like my "twin sister by another mister"! :cheersmate: :hi5:
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My son had the chickenpox when he was about 2 years old...to young for the vaccination. He got the vaccination when he was old enough but then had the chickenpox again when he was about 10.
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Thu Feb 5, 2015, 01:52 AM
Star Member hedgehog (34,566 posts)
When i was a child back in the early 60's, I used to take out
library books about the heroes of science:Jenner, Pasteur, Robert Koch :panic: , Walter Reed and of course, Jonas Salk.
When did those books become passe?
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I thought I was the only one who read the Encyclopedia when I was a kid. My grandma had them on her bookshelf; and I would just thumb through the pages and read the items that caught my attention (usually the ones with cool pictures, I have to admit). She also had Yearbooks published by World Book. I wish I still had those.
My husband is like that ^ We have every damn world book from the 60's through current. His mom still buys them for him. :o
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Thu Feb 5, 2015, 01:52 AM
Star Member hedgehog (34,566 posts)
When i was a child back in the early 60's, I used to take out
library books about the heroes of science:Jenner, Pasteur, Robert Koch :panic: , Walter Reed and of course, Jonas Salk.
When did those books become passe?
He's probably talking about Edward Jenner.
But I wouldn't put Bruce past him.