What are things I should know something about?
October 3, 2007 2:24 AM Subscribe
I want to make an effort to learn 3 new things a day. I'll kick this experiment off with jazz pianists, tomorrow it will be blonde jokes, then rock star deaths, 18th century scientists, and holocaust novelists. Please list topics I should know something about.
This post was deleted for the following reason: we've sort of done this before as an open-ended chatfilter question.
Buy this book and this book and this book. At a rate of 3 things per day, they'll last you several hundred years.
posted by jbickers at 2:55 AM on October 3, 2007
posted by jbickers at 2:55 AM on October 3, 2007
1. Whisky
2. Car maintenance
3. First aid
Those three have got me through life so far without too many problems!
Weather systems, basic philosophy, principles of flight, brewing, star gazing, coffee, advanced driving techniques, Greek gods, earthquakes, sports of different countries, luck..
Your list could be endless and is only limited by your imagination.
posted by Nugget at 2:58 AM on October 3, 2007
2. Car maintenance
3. First aid
Those three have got me through life so far without too many problems!
Weather systems, basic philosophy, principles of flight, brewing, star gazing, coffee, advanced driving techniques, Greek gods, earthquakes, sports of different countries, luck..
Your list could be endless and is only limited by your imagination.
posted by Nugget at 2:58 AM on October 3, 2007
I was going to make a suggestion, but then read jbickers post, and... well.... yeah, he's right.
posted by jmnugent at 3:16 AM on October 3, 2007
posted by jmnugent at 3:16 AM on October 3, 2007
Glorious chatfilter, but while the mods sleep:
1. Edible and poisionous mushrooms in your locale
2. The 6 types of cryptic crossword clue
3. The silhouettes of different raptors when seen on the wing
posted by roofus at 3:57 AM on October 3, 2007
1. Edible and poisionous mushrooms in your locale
2. The 6 types of cryptic crossword clue
3. The silhouettes of different raptors when seen on the wing
posted by roofus at 3:57 AM on October 3, 2007
- 17th Century etchers and engravers.
- The big names of Bollywood cinema.
- Perfumery ingredients natural & synthetic.
- The history of hats & other headgear.
- Fruits grown in South America, and not widely available outside that continent.
- The types of AskMe questions most likely to be deleted.
posted by misteraitch at 4:07 AM on October 3, 2007 [1 favorite]
- The big names of Bollywood cinema.
- Perfumery ingredients natural & synthetic.
- The history of hats & other headgear.
- Fruits grown in South America, and not widely available outside that continent.
- The types of AskMe questions most likely to be deleted.
posted by misteraitch at 4:07 AM on October 3, 2007 [1 favorite]
What you should learn follows from why you want to learn things. Do you want to be able to converse with a wide variety of people? Become wiser so that you'll be a great decision maker or communicator? Feel superior to your older sister? This could make the difference between choosing among, say, learning basic life histories of all fifty presidents, the entirety of the AP Style Guide, and memorizing the periodic table.
Don't worry; you won't run out of things to learn.
posted by amtho at 4:57 AM on October 3, 2007
Don't worry; you won't run out of things to learn.
posted by amtho at 4:57 AM on October 3, 2007
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Cakes (basic mechanism of a cake, lots and lots of different cakes and what distinguishes them. You could make it international and learn every country's cake. Same for dumplings)
Countries (learn how many there are, what they are, their capitals and flags)
The history of the photograph
How electricity works
Elements of the periodic table
Anything, really. I think wikipedia's 'daily featured article' could be helpful.
Good luck and enjoy!
posted by shokod at 2:47 AM on October 3, 2007