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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities
Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.
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Oh, I see!
Thanks, Anne -- so "special" comes about in the dynamic of looking, not from the appearance of what is seen. I agree. Anything/everything is thus potentially special. A better way to say this is that everything is different. So it's funny that from the engagement with the world via "specere" we get to its exhaustion/emptying via overly formal categories, kinds, or species. This reminds me of Paul's listing of teachings from Warren Hampe, including this one: "Pay attention to the verbs, not the nouns" (/sci_cult/lesswrong/descartes/hampe.html). [Btw, right now my computer isn't showing any pictures, so I can't see the picture by Purcell or the little icons that would let me create a live link to that text. When I sort this out I'll w/b.]