学校教给我们的十大谬误

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于2010-09-15 13:17:02翻译 | 已有778人浏览

爱因斯塔成绩很差？老鼠喜欢奶酪？拿破仑很矮？爱迪生发明了电灯？谁告诉你的？书都是都是这么说的啊，毁人不倦啊

1）爱因斯坦读书的时候成绩很差

这位诺贝尔奖获得者读书成绩不好，一代代的孩子们都对这个想法感到欣慰，但他们大错特错了。实际上，他在学校表现很好，尤其是科学和数学方面（一点也不奇怪）。

2）老鼠喜欢奶酪

老鼠喜欢含糖量高的食物，还有花生酱和早餐谷类食品。因此对于它来说一块士力架要比一大块切达奶酪要好得多。

3）拿破仑很矮

实际上他身高5英尺7英寸（译注：1米70），在18/19世纪来说完全是平均水平。

4）爱迪生发明了电灯泡

爱迪生发明了很多东西，实际上他是历史上最著名的发明家之一，但电灯泡不在他的方面之列。他只是是与英国人约瑟夫·斯旺（Joseph Swan）同时开发出了电灯，而斯旺是最早想出电灯的人。

5） 旅鼠集体跳海自杀

这些可怜的老家伙有时候对食物是如此之绝望，（据BBC所言）以至于它们会“从很高的地方跳下水中”，但它们不是集体自杀。

6）不同半球水的流向不同

不是的，对不起！

7）人由猿进化而来

实际上达尔文并没有这么说，但却被误传至今。他说的是我们和猿，以及黑猩猩，曾经，很久很久以前，在这方面有着一个共同的祖先。

8） 维京人头上有角或头盔有角

头盔和角形饮水器可能是跟着维京人一起掩埋的。当他们被维多利亚时代的人挖出来的时候，他们就想当然地以为那些头盔有角。

9）哥伦布认为地球是平的

他也许并不知道世界有多大，但他并不担心掉落地球的边缘。

10）舌头的不同部位探测不同的味道

你的舌头上并没有不同的味蕾，只是有些相对而言更敏感一些。但它们并没有被划分成完美的、方便教学的各个部分。

原文

10 Biggest Misconceptions We Learn in School | SmilePanic

1) Einstein got bad grades in school.

Generations of children have been heartened by the thought that this Nobel Prize winner did badly at school, but they’re sadly mistaken. In fact, he did very well at school, especially in science and maths (unsurprisingly).

2) Mice like cheese

Mice enjoy food rich in sugar as well as peanut butter and breakfast cereals. So a Snickers bar would go down much better than a lump of cheddar.

3) Napoleon was short.

He was actually around 5ft 7, completely average for the 18th/19th century.

4) Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.

Edison invented a lot of things – in fact he’s one of the most famous inventors of all time – but the light bulb wasn’t one of them. What he did was develop a light bulb at the same time as the British man, Joseph Swan, who came up with it originally.

5) Lemmings throw themselves over cliffs to commit suicide

The poor old things are sometimes so desperate for food that they do, according to the BBC “jump over high ground into water”, but they aren’t committing group suicide.

6) Water flushes differently in different hemispheres

No it doesn’t. Sorry!

7) Humans evolved from apes

Darwin didn’t actually say this, but he’s been misreported ever since. What he did say was that we, and apes, and chimpanzees for that matter, had a common ancestor, once, a long, long time ago.

 Vikings had horns/helmets with horns.

Vikings may have been buried with their helmets and with drinking horns. When they were dug up by the Victorians, they assumed that the helmets had horns.

9) Columbus believed the earth was flat

He may not have known how big the world was, but he wasn’t worrying about falling off the edge of it.

10) Different parts of the tongue detect different tastes

You do have different taste buds on your tongue and some are more sensitive than others. But they aren’t divided into perfect, easy-to-teach sections.

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