Pariah Posted December 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 If it were me, I'd give you the opportunity to redo the assignment with the right book without substantial penalty. Yes, a solid effort is important. But results also matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 Which book, Flash vol 1 or vol 2 #244? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted December 5, 2018 Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 Personally, I think you could learn more about how dynamic Electro can be from a Spider-Man comic, but maybe that's just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2018 It is. ? Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 6, 2018 Report Share Posted December 6, 2018 * Cancer returns from getting honest data with which to refute an administrator's ambush using grossly biased numbers * One of those messages that rather than being carried, really should be fired at him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 I was told that a prominent nuclear physics theoretician asserts that all physicists are either autistic or schizophrenic, and the first icebreaker session he has with the undergrad summer research interns has everyone stating which one of those they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 Physicists have icebreakers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 For summer Research Experience for Undergraduates programs, where they have brought in some number like ten or more fresh meat students for a 2.5-month drink-from-the-fire-hose sprint ... yeah, they do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 On 12/6/2018 at 3:44 PM, Cancer said: * Cancer returns from getting honest data with which to refute an administrator's ambush using grossly biased numbers * One of those messages that rather than being carried, really should be fired at him. One thing I love to tell my students: "If there is a first and great commandment in science, it is this: Thou shalt not disregard the data. The numbers say what the numbers say." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 23 minutes ago, Pariah said: One thing I love to tell my students: "If there is a first and great commandment in science, it is this: Thou shalt not disregard the data. The numbers say what the numbers say." That's so 2015. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 12, 2018 Report Share Posted December 12, 2018 True, but there ain't no school like old school. "Certainly ... just google this for me, now that your phone is in your backpack in the other room: How do you google something when you don't have a working phone?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 12, 2018 Report Share Posted December 12, 2018 On 12/11/2018 at 9:28 AM, L. Marcus said: Physicists have icebreakers? Of course. Icebreakers a pure physics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 14, 2018 Report Share Posted December 14, 2018 Lexical analysis of the prompt in an attempt to bullshit an answer to a question with a very well-defined answer ... gets you very few points on a college level physical science final. Especially when you try it twice in the same question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 14, 2018 Report Share Posted December 14, 2018 Current question being graded: What is the Roche limit? How is it applicable to the systems of bodies orbiting the Jovian planets? Zero point answer: I might give an LOL point for that if I see it, though. The Roche limit is how many roches you have to see before you get disgusted and call an exterminator. The moons of Jupiter and Saturn are just crawling with the things. Pariah, Christopher and L. Marcus 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 14, 2018 Report Share Posted December 14, 2018 Thomas Kuhn gave the word "paradigm" a paradigm shift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 15, 2018 Report Share Posted December 15, 2018 On 12/11/2018 at 12:35 PM, Logan.1179 said: That's so 2015. More like 1915. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 15, 2018 Report Share Posted December 15, 2018 13 hours ago, Cancer said: Current question being graded: What is the Roche limit? How is it applicable to the systems of bodies orbiting the Jovian planets? Reveal hidden contents Zero point answer: I might give an LOL point for that if I see it, though. Reveal hidden contents The Roche limit is how many roches you have to see before you get disgusted and call an exterminator. The moons of Jupiter and Saturn are just crawling with the things. Wasn't Roche the guy who kept running for President as an Independent? WHat? I didn't know planets could be jovial? WHAT?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 15, 2018 Report Share Posted December 15, 2018 12 hours ago, Bazza said: Thomas Kuhn gave the word "paradigm" a paradigm shift. On a serious not, for some reason when reading for the longest time I read it as pa-ra-dig-um. Hegemony is another one I still misread occasionally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 15, 2018 Report Share Posted December 15, 2018 A trap I had not previously appreciated: asking a question where students have heard about the subject (case at hand, the greenhouse effect) and mistakenly think they understand it. It's even more of a trap when you promised them a question on the final about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 15, 2018 Report Share Posted December 15, 2018 Exams all graded. High of 123, 160 possible. Two people tied at the low score of ... 12. Other assignments yet to be graded still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 15, 2018 Report Share Posted December 15, 2018 On 12/6/2018 at 5:44 PM, Cancer said: * Cancer returns from getting honest data with which to refute an administrator's ambush using grossly biased numbers * One of those messages that rather than being carried, really should be fired at him. Is the administrator Han "Never tell me the odds" Solo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 15, 2018 Report Share Posted December 15, 2018 31 minutes ago, Cancer said: Exams all graded. High of 123, 160 possible. Two people tied at the low score of ... 12. Other assignments yet to be graded still. I can do better than 12. It's like golf scoring right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 ... Not exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 damn, I thought my below 12 score would mean something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 On 12/15/2018 at 9:15 AM, Badger said: Wasn't Roche the guy who kept running for President as an Independent? WHat? I didn't know planets could be jovial? WHAT?? Of course, a lot of Planets are Jovial. We got 4 alone in our Solar System. And most of the ones we find in other Systems are Jovial too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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