Scotland's History
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Kirstie
Über Member
Telemark said:the one who uses Mars bars to explain tectonics?
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Does he? Not seen that one. I just like him because he's got bags of enthusiasm.
Jane Smart
The Queen
- Location
- Dunfermline Fife
JiMBR said:
Many years ago........
At a parents evening, I was praised for an essay on the Stone of Scone....
It was then explained to my Mother that whilst the essay was good - they taught English History and that the Stone had not been "stolen from the Scots by the thieving English" and tat it was not " a fake because a canny scot had in fact given the English a Hearth Stone and passed it off as the real thing thus invalidating the Coronation of every Monarch since!"
At a parents evening, I was praised for an essay on the Stone of Scone....
It was then explained to my Mother that whilst the essay was good - they taught English History and that the Stone had not been "stolen from the Scots by the thieving English" and tat it was not " a fake because a canny scot had in fact given the English a Hearth Stone and passed it off as the real thing thus invalidating the Coronation of every Monarch since!"
solmisation
Active Member
- Location
- Paisley
Telemark said:the one who uses Mars bars to explain tectonics?
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"New Zealand has many earthquakes because it straddles the boundary between two of the earth's great tectonic plates - the Pacific Plate in the east and the Australian Plate in the west. These two plates are conviging obliquely at about 40 mm/year in Fiordland and at about 50 mm/year at East Cape. While these rates are rather small, comparable to the rate your fingernails grow, the plates are about 100km thick, so a large volume of rock is deformed as the plates collide. This rock can deform in two ways: either through straining elastically and eventually fracturing, which produces earthquakes, or by flowing. This situation is analogus to pushing the two ends of a Mars bar together. While the brittle chocolate layer deforms by fracturing in tiny earthquakes, the caramel interior deforms by flowing."
Next week he will explain the "Mohorovicic Discontinuity" using a Jaffa cake.
solmisation said:Next week he will explain the "Mohorovicic Discontinuity" using a Jaffa cake.
Next week? Is the series being repeated? Where & When?
If only they tought science like this in schools there would be no shortage of science students ...
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HJ
Cycling in Scotland
- Location
- Auld Reekie
So Tom Devine has not been posting on here then...
