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From: gordon@uw-june (Gordon Davisson)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Response to Response to flames
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 16:17:17 EDT
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> > [Gordon, responding to Dan]
> > *You* had better read up on P.E., from a good source.  "The Wonderful Egg",
> > which you listed in another article as your source on P.E., is a children's
> > book.  You know, the kind where all the ideas get simplified so the young
> > and young at mind can understand them.  Looks like it failed in your case.

> [Ethan Vishniac]
> Are we talking about "The Enormous Egg" or some book I've never heard of?
> This is a serious question.  I like to keep track of good children's books.

I've never read it, so I can't vouch for its being any good, but Dan said
it won some awards...  The title really is "The Wonderful egg", by IPCAR (I
don't know if that's a person or a company or what).  The reason I know
anything at all about it is that I got the impression from Dan's description
that it was for young children, so I called the Seattle Public Library
System, and confirmed my suspicions (this is called hypothesis testing, and
it's very useful for learning things.  Scientists use it all the time.  Try
it out sometime (I'm not talking to Ethan here)).

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