The Core (2003) is notorious within the geoscience community for being one of the few big-budget movies to use geology and geophysics as its core (hah!) conceit, and then cramming in more scientific inaccuracies into its 135-minute runtime than any of us thought possible. I’ve attended more than a few viewing parties for The Core, all of which involved competitions to see who can spot the most inaccuracies (as an intern at the Lunar and Planetary Institute I actually won, with 43 independent errors!). That said, this piece will not continue the longstanding tradition of picking apart The Core’s bad science. I didn’t come to bury The Core, but to reexamine it.
Community Language Learning: An overview.
The CLL method was developed by Charles Curran. The latter was a specialist in counseling and a professor of psychology. Curran managed to apply…