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I believe that the
extraordinary should be pursued.
But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
When Kepler found
his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise
observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred
the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart
of science.
Where we have strong
emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Carl Sagan
(1934 - 1996)

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Prescribed
Focus Areas
& The Syllabus
Providing contexts related to conceptual meaning increases
the opportunities students have of recognising that the
concepts they are trying to understand are relevant to a
number of situations other than those immediately apparent
to them. Each of the amazing claims used in the Mystery
Investigators' show, ties in with the science syllabus.
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