Written by the TreasureGuide for the exlcusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
The Treasure of Villena is one of the most important finds of gold articles dating from the Bronze Age (2,200 to 750 B.C.) in the Iberian Peninsula. It is composed of 59 gold objects (including 27 bracelets and 11 bowls) and a few pieces made of silver or iron...
The pommel is decorated with three bands, crossed by four parallel strips that create four sectors and result in a four-pointed star. The bracelet is an open ring, with rounded and somewhat flattened ends. Its discoverer described it as “a dark leaden metal...
Here is the link for more about that.
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The Super Bowl illustrated two important things to me: first, the problem of talent evaluation, and second, the complexity of peak performance.
Brock Purdy was the last man selected in his draft class but performed so well that he quarterbacked a team that nearly won the Super Bowl. Why was he not chosen earlier in the draft like all the quarterbacks selected before him that not only did not take their team to the Super Bowl but did not even get to play in a single NFL game the entire season. To me, perhaps the single biggest issue is talent evaluation. Purdy's talent was there but was evaluated highly enough by the many professional scouts paid by the many NFL teams to go out and find talent. Likewise, all across American and around the world are children that are never encouraged to develop their unique talents and people who spend their lives without actualizing anything near their potential.
There is a huge difference between potential and performance, and many factors are involved. It is true in any field of endeavor - even metal detecting. Besides inherent individual characteristics, there are socially determined influencing the development of skills as well as many external factors including things such as the luck of time and place.
If there is one thing I'd like to see in our schools, it is staff trained to identify, encourage, and develop individual talents. That is far from happening without intensive systematic development of educators with the skills and abilities to do that job.
There have been countries where young students who show promise in certain athletic abilities are identified to receive intensive training to become Olympic athletes, but I' m talking about a more student-centered approach, not like the current manipulation of students to benefit certain ideological perspectives.
Sometimes people aren't interested in optimizing their unique skills and abilities, but most often they don't have the privilege of a good overall assessment of their skills and abilities and what it would take to optimize them in them in the society.
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Here is a great video showing a leading scientist and a mathematician laying out evidence for a creator and exposing some very important and commonly accepted myths of science.
By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator (youtube.com)
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Here are a couple Treasure Coast gopher tortoises out a fling.`
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| Couple Gopher Tortoises. |
