May 1, 2005

Gregory Cochran on "What Education Crisis?"









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1 comment:

Pat Boyle said...

This is a new comment to an old posting. I just read this column in December 2014.

In the movie 'Agora' about the ancient female polymath Hypatia played by Rachel Weisz, the producers explain her astronomical insight into the seasons as being caused by the egg shaped orbit of the Earth around the Sun. In the film she makes an elaborate model that illustrates how when the Earth goes farther away it becomes winter.

The film has a postlude in which they brag that she developed this scientific 'insight' centuries before Kepler. The producers never seemed to have understood axial tilt at all and are quite merry in ascribing the bad astronomy to Hypatia.

Otherwise this is an excellent historical story with great acting, writing, sets and costumes.