05 Dec 08
Originally posted by ChronicLeakyThe linen tester is meant to watch plants, not to test linen. 🙂 We used them on those botanical trips. The goal of those trips was to learn to observe without letting immediate interpretations and knowledge get into the way - to get back into a state of "sensory virginity", as it says in the description I linked to; which then can lead to curiosity and eventually a new understanding of science and its systematics.
Ok, I've learnt that in at least one German university, rooms are subdivided into potentially very small pieces (at least 512ths, I guess) 🙂.
Seriously, that is a great idea for a course. Botanical trips haven't been part of my formal education since junior high school, which is unfortunate.
Right now, I'm officeless, so when the library is clos ...[text shortened]... , so that the really bad beds would have already been rejected by those in a lower pay grade.
Bed testing sounds good as well, though.