L. Marcus Posted October 28, 2021 Report Share Posted October 28, 2021 Hari Seldon wrote his thesis on turbulence, and that was 20,000+ years into the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 28, 2021 Report Share Posted October 28, 2021 "Vortices have littler vortices on their backs to bite 'em; Little ones have littler ones still and so on to viscosity." (The original version of that verse ended "ad infinitum", but this version is more correct.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 28, 2021 Report Share Posted October 28, 2021 How perfectly marvelous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 28, 2021 Report Share Posted October 28, 2021 Physicists make the best comedians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 29, 2021 Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 Deleted, as the post I was responding to was not very recent. "Hanging antecedent" and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 And to think I considered becoming a math teacher because I thought it would be easier. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 18 * 37 = 664751 * 8 = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 = 5040, a very useful number for deflecting those students who metagame figuring the right answer will have to be an integer. Another teaser combo is 2 * 3 * 3 * 37, which Old Man already mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 3, 2021 Report Share Posted November 3, 2021 Aahhhhhhh, mid-term day. And more to the point, last night was night-before-the-midterm night. I was sent three emails after 1145 PM last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombrown803 Posted November 3, 2021 Report Share Posted November 3, 2021 Did you wait until 5 minutes before class to answer them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 3, 2021 Report Share Posted November 3, 2021 No, I try to be more insidious with my evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2021 "Mr. P. What's your favorite class period?" "Probably 4A." "What do you have 4A? "My planning period." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted November 7, 2021 Report Share Posted November 7, 2021 Kant really did ruin everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 7, 2021 Report Share Posted November 7, 2021 ... But at least he was always on time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 7, 2021 Report Share Posted November 7, 2021 Sure, however he equated reason with intellect then depreciated intellect. He also subsumed what is objectively real as a subjective mental image. Things just went progressively downhill from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 Pariah and rravenwood 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 QFT. See also "group projects" in classes. Pariah and rravenwood 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 Never did a science fair as a kid. Always felt ripped off by that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 I didn't do one either, but six years of my public-school life were spent overseas, and for the time in the US I spent (3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, and 3 years) in any given location. Continuity was an issue. Oh, and in those longest-term stays, those were in non-urban areas where science was not popular (the schools taught it because they had to in order to have football programs), so infrastructure and support were not on their agendas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Logan.1179 said: Never did a science fair as a kid. Always felt ripped off by that. I guess that makes it the ‘science unfair’. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 I have come to approve of group work for homework assignments, where the group submits one paper that has all members' names on it with all the assigned work. Pedagogically, this is good because without it being assigned "group work" it encourages cooperative learning without forcing agreements with the tunneling scumbuckets who torpedo official group assignments. My true reason for approving of it is that it reduces the number of papers I have to mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 12, 2021 Report Share Posted November 12, 2021 On 10/29/2021 at 7:21 AM, Bazza said: Physicists make the best comedians. I stand corrected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 13, 2021 Report Share Posted November 13, 2021 I suffer a very similar affliction as a theater major. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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