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John Byrne
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LINKInteresting article, albeit one of the most poorly written/edited I've ever read!
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Robbie Parry
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Articles like this make me think about how much was presented as 'fact' via school textbooks.
It'll be interesting to find more. Thanks for sharing these sorts of articles recently, seems to be a lot happening in this area.
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John Byrne
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School textbooks! T'wasn't bad enough that I was reading comics and watching movies that told me humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time -- and I still haven't recovered from that disappointment! -- my 8th grade science textbook was still teaching the planetary model of the atom, and that the Earth was 35 million years old!
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Robbie Parry
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I was disappointed to learn the likes of Latveria wasn't real. And disappointed, also, to find out there was no blue area of the moon. Those comics, eh?
As for school textbooks, it's amazing how much we take for granted at face value during childhood (perhaps one class should be taught in how to question everything!). If I could get my hands on the textbooks from primary and secondary school, so much would be out-of-date and erroneous.
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Robert Shepherd
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I actually learned some facts from comic books. In an issue of Thor, there were a couple of pages explaining about the motions of the earth. It was the very first time I learned of the planetary motion precession.
Edited by Robert Shepherd on 20 October 2017 at 12:49pm
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John Byrne
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From comics I mostly learned language. Long before my contemporaries I was using words like "invulnerable" and "inexorably". Even "thru" I got from Stan Lee.
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Marvel Comics taught me words like Sentinel and Vagabond.
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"I was disappointed to learn the likes of Latveria wasn't real"
SAME HERE!
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Oh well, Latvia is real - and that sounds like Latveria! ;-)
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So many words I learned from comics.
I distinctly remember looking up the word "concur" while reading a comic (F.F.)
Also ,thanks mostly to Dr. Doom, learned words like, cretin, cur...
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John Byrne
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Or...LINK
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It gets more and more interesting.
This is why science is cool. Willing to change its opinion, re-examine evidence, etc.
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