I love it too, and have read it many times. The universe feels so familiar now. (I’ve been reading everything by PG Wodehouse I can get my hands on and I have the same feeling.)
I think it could be done properly, but it would probably have a limited audience. I don’t see anything wrong with people talking and arguing and thinking (a voice over for the main character perhaps?), limited sets (like Hitchcock’s Rear Window), and puzzle solving as the main character figures out what the problem is and what to do. And there is considerable conflict among the characters, and sometimes it gets does get physical, as when the Mayor Hardin goes to Anacreon one of the first stories.
It would take a brilliant director, writers who are knowledgeable about Asimov’s stories, and a studio willing to go along with it, but from what I’ve heard, Apple’s Foundation ain’t it.
On the fourth floor of the Museum of the Bible, a sweeping permanent exhibit tells the story of how the ancient scripture became the world’s most popular book. A warmly lit sanctum at the exhibit’s heart reveals some of the museum’s most prized possessions: fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient texts that include the oldest known surviving copies of the Hebrew Bible.
But now, the Washington, D.C. museum has confirmed a bitter truth about the fragments’ authenticity. On Friday, independent researchers funded by the Museum of the Bible announced that all 16 of the museum’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments are modern forgeries that duped outside collectors, the museum’s founder, and some of the world’s leading biblical scholars. Officials unveiled the findings at an academic conference hosted by the museum.
Well, you could tell them that the human race doesn’t accept or believe ideas like that, therefore if they do, they must themselves be a subhuman race. It might not go over well though.
Personally, I’d just unvite them from any future family gatherings or whatever event might bring us into proximity.
The whole “learning styles” thing was debunked by research psychs a long time ago. But, throughout education and applied psychology in general, it persists like a fucking zombie.
That’s interesting! I assumed that was just the way it is, but this calls that into question.
And the finding that mixing multiple approaches - verbal, visual, and actually doing things hands-on is better than just one single aspect - well that seems so natural and obvious. How could we not have just known that? When you look at it that way, it’s just like how could it possibly not be like that.
Multimedia helps in most situations, and in some circumstances it may be beneficial to focus a bit more on one modality than you would otherwise do. Learning mechanical concepts without good diagrams is a bugger; learning complex philosophical concepts without lotsa language, similar. And a student with weak language or visualisation skills may be particularly vulnerable to this sort of difficulty.
But the idea that individuals have fixed, immutable “styles” that describe their best learning approach in all situations is false. Informing students otherwise is malpractice. And the idea that you can divine these non-existent “styles” via a quick commercial test is raw scammy horseshit.
