"He was saying 'huge colossal sculptures,' and I'm thinking, 'In comparison to what?' and multiplying times nine".
As he later wrote in his Autobiography: By mid December Darwin saw a similarity between farmers picking the best stock in selective breeding, and a Malthusian Nature selecting from chance variants so that "every part of newly acquired structure is fully practical and perfected", thinking this comparison "a beautiful part of my theory".
Design principles emerging from the cognitive theory of multimedia learning can be applied to engage cognitive processing, and teaching methods that have evolved from variation theory can encourage thinking through comparisons in mathematics education.
Maybe I was being swayed by the beauty of my surroundings, but as I switched from spritz to straight prosecco before dinner later that day in Padua, I couldn't help thinking that this comparison was a little unfair.
(The Australian Broadcasting Company has video of a recent talk by Mr Assange at the Berkeley School of Journalism).But I was thinking about the comparison as a way to get a sense of moral clarity about the "Collateral Murder" video leak.
He can't rest; can't forget the unfinished novel he's meant to be working on; can't see a cloud in the sky without thinking of a comparison (with a grand piano, say) he might use somewhere; can't trust the praise of encouragement of friends; feels nervous, miserable, overwrought, half-mad, and when any new work of his appears in print realises that it's all wrong.
Andrew Shapiro: Thinking by analogy, or thinking historically by comparison, consider the dot-com boom 10 years ago and the bust that followed.
By comparison, thinking about paying for financial services gets people very muddled and confused due to 1) pervasive magical thinking that "I can do it myself" when making complex financial decisions and 2) the fact that it's a crazy and confusing world when it comes to types of advisors.
these same capacities are utilised to some degree in all human academic endeavour, as seems reasonable to assume, then there is good reason for thinking that some comparison may prove beneficial, regardless of any purported differences in the systems under study.
