{"id":1120,"date":"2012-05-22T11:15:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T23:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/05\/beauty_in_simplicity_a_guide_t\/"},"modified":"2012-05-22T11:15:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T23:15:30","slug":"beauty-in-simplicity-a-guide-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/05\/beauty-in-simplicity-a-guide-t\/","title":{"rendered":"beauty in simplicity &#8211; a guide to basic critical thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Via my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.waikato.ac.nz\/about-us\/people\/daniell\">Daniel Laughlin <\/a>comes<a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/r\/pics\/K97Fk\"> this link<\/a> to what he describes as &quot;a simple &amp; elegant description of critical thinking.&quot; It&#8217;s a visual description,&nbsp;not a whole bunch of words, &amp;&nbsp;strikes me as being a Really Useful Resource for classroom discussion around critical thinking &amp; the nature of science. Enjoy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Via my colleague Daniel Laughlin comes this link to what he describes as &quot;a simple &amp; elegant description of critical thinking.&quot; It&#8217;s a visual description,&nbsp;not a whole bunch of words, &amp;&nbsp;strikes me as being a Really Useful Resource for classroom discussion around critical thinking &amp; the nature of science. 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