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Agreed. Casino Royale is great because it’s an origin film - Bond at the beginning is a brutal thug, who gradually develops into a more...

When Casino Royale came out, I was also enjoying the idea of a grittier, less campy version of Bond. However, a couple of years ago I...

Yes about Leiter - that’s from the novels (Live and Let Die, not included in the Moore film). He survives. I wouldn’t say Pam Bouvier...

Maybe they’re actually voting for Diana Rigg? I could see that.

Dalton because his Bond is humane and conscientious, actually thinks about whether he should murder the person he’s been sent to murder...

Dalton. Just Dalton.

That’s definitely a possibility. If medical students are mostly judged on coursework rather than exams (as horrible and stressful as...

I think it’s also fair to say that different subjects and sectors need different kinds of learning. Medicine does require a great deal...

I think it depends how the exams work, specifically whether they encourage a useful mixture of rote learning and information analysis...

Having read the SRD, I basically think this: 1) It’s a nicely more narrative take on the D&D space with some interesting mechanics. It...

I think the ability to retrieve and analyse information quickly is quite important for many sectors, and you’d certainly want more...

That’s a really good argument for making exams more important for qualifications, I think. Coursework can always be written by genAI but...

An anecdote: the International Baccalaureate diploma is very rigorous - it is basically modeled on British A-levels, and students earn...

I mean feel free to look into the research. The more 'online' the more 'connected' the more 'social media engaged' one is, the less...

Hmmm… the use case for disabled students is interesting, I’ll have to think about that. There are of course all sorts of entirely valid...