It's a peculiar problem, for what Gore has been learning this past year is how to be a politician -- which is, of course, the job description of a candidate.
On 15th December the two biggest experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported on what has been learned this year from particle collisions at a new, record-breaking energy.
He said it was clear in July 2010 that the well had integrity but that could have been learned two months earlier.
Excitedly, I e-mailed her back to offer congratulations and ask if it would be possible to do a follow-up "one-year-later" interview about what had been learned since.
It has been learning of their political consequences ever since.
A generation's worth of lessons have been learned since 1992, when Hillary Clinton, as candidate for first lady, scorned — and earned the scorn of — nonworking mothers with her "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies" comment.
On that front, lessons have been learned since early last year, when the Chinese government was slow in releasing reliable information about the spread of the SARS outbreak, said Kazem Behbehani, an assistant director general of the World Health Organization.
Should there prove to be a "large-scale version of an Occupy Wall Street-type movement" by the end of 2014 – as the consultancy Gartner predicts – lessons will surely have been learned since 2011.
What has been learned from 2010 and what can we expect from 2011? Below is a selection of some of the progress reports released for the anniversary.
Iram, who has a masters degree in Islamic studies and has been learning English since September, received her final divorce papers last week and says she hopes to remain in the UK and train as a teacher.
Indeed, such basic information as its radius and mass have been difficult to determine; most of what is known about Pluto had been learned since the late 1970s as an outcome of the discovery of Charon.
