40 ‘Cool Guides’ People Shared On This Group That Contain Information They Don’t Teach At School (New Pics)
Whether we're talking about politics or the animal kingdom, learning something new can require a fair amount of time and effort. Luckily, we don't always have to read lengthy scientific papers. Some people do it for us. And not only that — they narrow down everything to a few bullet points and illustrate them to help our minds remember.
And if you want a place that stores these effective tools, look no further than the subreddit r/CoolGuides. As the name suggests, it collects picture-based reference guides for pretty much anything and everything.
"If it seems like something someone might print, physically post, and reference then it is a good link for this sub," its moderators write in its 'About' section.
Continue scrolling to check out some recent posts that garnered a lot of attention within this online community and if you find yourself hooked, fire up Bored Panda's earlier publication on it too.
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Dana Jandhyala, who has had a long career as an educator where she has taught in different schools and institutes, believes that visuals hold more appeal than plain text to curious and intuitive minds.
"Till date, several studies have been conducted which prove the power of visual aids in eLearning," she wrote. "And there are some interesting results drawn from them. Such as, learners respond to visual information faster as compared to text-only materials. Also, visuals help improve learning tremendously and on multiple levels. Hence, around 65% of the population comprises visual learners."
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Jandhyala said there are several advantages of visual aids:
They help store information longer. "Images are the simplest and the most effective way to make sure that the information gets stored as long-term memory. As per Dr. Lynell Burmark, an education consultant, our short term memory processes words and can only retain about seven bits of information. Whereas, images are directly processed by our long-term memory, where they get indelibly etched."
They make communication quicker and simpler. "Information listed in bullets is no doubt simpler to process. But, that same information in the form of an image or a video is processed even more quickly."
As per the Visual Teaching Alliance:
- Of all the information transmitted to the brain, 90% is visual;
- As opposed to text, visuals are processed 60,000x faster;
- Humans are capable of getting the sense of a visual scene in less than 1/10th of a second;
- 40% of nerve fibers are linked to the retina;
- Our brain can see images that last for only 13 milliseconds;
- The human eye can register 36,000 visual messages every hour;
- Hence, the eLearning programs which incorporate suitable visuals gain a higher preference over.
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Visuals aid better comprehension. "They help learners grasp concepts easily by stimulating imagination and affecting their cognitive capabilities. Besides, the visual language is also known to have the potential to stretch 'human bandwidth' – which comprises absorbing, comprehending and analyzing new information."
Visuals act as stimulators for emotions. "Emotions and visual information are processed in the same part of the human brain. Visual stimuli and emotional response are linked in a simple way and these two together generate what we call memories. Hence, powerful images and visual metaphors create strong impressions and lasting memories in learners."
They drive motivation. "Most of the students struggle with some of their subjects because they find them uninteresting and hence lack the motivation to put in the required efforts. Visuals are the best bet in such scenarios. Captivating images, engaging videos, interesting infographics, etc. help learners fight the boredom and motivate them to do better."
So it very well might be that the things you'll learn from these guides will stay with you. At least for a little while.
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Any particular species of fish can be closer in relation to humans than to another species of fish. Always found this interesting, it challenges our perceptions, fish didn't just evolve into land animals, they continued to evolve into different types of fish too.
As I understand it, only lobed fish are arguably closer to humans. All ray fins are closer to each other (and ray fins are the vast majority of fish).
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I find it vaguely reassuring that I’m more closely related to mushrooms than to plants.
Apparently you're not. Mushrooms are closer to humans than plants sharing 50% of human's dna. But plants like the bananas have 60% dna in common with humans.
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Because it's not EXACTLY entirely true. Toucans, crocodiles and most lizards all evolved from a reptile that you'd probably consider to be a "lizard" if you saw it. Toucans and crocodiles have a common ancestor that is more recent than this "lizard," and a little less like "lizards." Birds, you see, are descendents of "dinosaurs," which means "terrible lizards." However, the term "lizard" is now considered formally correct only when applied to members of a group of reptiles called, "squamates," and not dinosaurs, but even this identification is still not scientifically accurate because "squamata" includes snakes, which also have a more recent common ancestor to some lizards than those lizards have to other lizards.
Load More Replies... Most of these are great examples and this doesn't apply to them, but: Around twenty years ago, the notion of grouping organisms around most recent common ancestors really cemented as genetics made it rather fool-proof. The problem is that some organisms remain virtually unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, while others rapidly change. So a modern coelocanth which is virtually identical to a 300-million-year-old coelocanth may be "no closer" to its ancestor than you are to some 300-million-year-old amphibian. As such, "reptiles" like lizards and crocodiles are "further" from each other than some repitiles are from birds which evolved "from" reptiles.(This is not true for mammals, which evolved from a branch of the "reptile" class which has no other living representatives.)
As in, 'shared a common ancestor more recently in time'
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Ah... What? I thought because they live in Africa, too, and have a real-life impact on lions, as the two species kill each other's offsprings and steal their hunted food (the lion more often steals from hyenas, but people don't like to hear that. Thy want the ugly one to be the thief)
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Also elephant shrews (look them up, they're so cute) are more closely related to elephants than shrews.
The bottom one makes totally sense to me, but probably only because I've done some research on the subject. Both Potatoes and Tomatoes belong to the nightshade family. Eggplants and peppers are also part of the nightshade family. Sweet potatoes are part of the same family as Morning Glory vines. Yams comprise another family entirely.
Tomatoes and potatoes are both part of the nightshade family >:]
Interesting to see that I don't belong in this family feeling extended to other animals and plants.
I agree with Sugard Glider and Kangaroo, both marsupials. I have no opinion on the others.
Gonna call BS with this one. Just bc it's in meme form doesn't mean it's True
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Note: this post originally had 87 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes.
Bored Panda is just a content aggregator to generate ad impressions. They didn’t create any of these.
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Interesting and informative, but these are not the things you learn in school.
Maybe not anymore. I learned all that proofreading stuff in grade school. The music thing is annoying but I guarantee they teach it in some Montessori school somewhere...
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These are helpful!! I'd enjoy more content like this. Thanks for this one!!
See,you don't need a shittoker with 80% of the picture covered with face to explain it to you.Great content bp👍🏻
Bored Panda is just a content aggregator to generate ad impressions. They didn’t create any of these.
Load More Replies... Interesting and informative, but these are not the things you learn in school.
Maybe not anymore. I learned all that proofreading stuff in grade school. The music thing is annoying but I guarantee they teach it in some Montessori school somewhere...
Load More Replies... These are helpful!! I'd enjoy more content like this. Thanks for this one!!
See,you don't need a shittoker with 80% of the picture covered with face to explain it to you.Great content bp👍🏻
