Pariah Posted May 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2019 The opening sentence from a paper one of my students submitted: "Scientific literacy is incredibly important in a world where clickbait oversimplifies scientific studies for the sake of creating maximum ad revenue." L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted May 21, 2019 Report Share Posted May 21, 2019 7 minutes ago, Pariah said: The opening sentence from a paper one of my students submitted: "Scientific literacy is incredibly important in a world where clickbait oversimplifies scientific studies for the sake of creating maximum ad revenue." The Top Five Reasons for Scientific Literacy... you won't believe number three! Rails, Pariah and Starlord 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2019 Another student suggested that we stop referring to a certain group of people as "anti-vaxxers" and start calling them "plague enthusiasts". Starlord, L. Marcus, Grailknight and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2019 3 minutes ago, Logan.1179 said: The Top Five Reasons for Scientific Literacy... you won't believe number three! I love this three thousand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 25, 2019 Report Share Posted May 25, 2019 We have STEM, so why not PATH? Philosophy, Arts, Theology & Humanities. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted May 25, 2019 Report Share Posted May 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Bazza said: We have STEM, so why not PATH? Philosophy, Arts, Theology & Humanities. You mean a Liberal Arts degree? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2019 If you want to make it sound more hip, call it PHAT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 25, 2019 Report Share Posted May 25, 2019 What about PTAH? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 25, 2019 Report Share Posted May 25, 2019 3 hours ago, Ternaugh said: You mean a Liberal Arts degree? Sort of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 27, 2019 Report Share Posted May 27, 2019 You can get that if you want it. In no way should it be compulsory to get that, though, just as a STEM degree cannot be made compulsory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted May 28, 2019 Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 On 5/25/2019 at 2:06 PM, Bazza said: What about PTAH? The very name of Egypt derives from an ancient name for the city of Memphis meaning "Home of the Soul of Ptah." Lucius Alexander Riding a palindromedary on the PATH of PTAH. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 28, 2019 Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 Red is red. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 28, 2019 Report Share Posted May 28, 2019 Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2019 ...but it's not quite to infinity (and beyond). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 29, 2019 Report Share Posted May 29, 2019 Depends if Buzz Lightyear engages the warp engines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted May 29, 2019 Report Share Posted May 29, 2019 Buzz Warpdrive doesn't have the same panache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 29, 2019 Report Share Posted May 29, 2019 "Buzz Warpdrive?" Wasn't he an anti-hero in some '70's underground marijuana-scene comic? And if he wasn't, why not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 17, 2019 Report Share Posted June 17, 2019 Newton-Machian analysis of Neo-tychonian model of planetary motions https://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.6045.pdf Abstract. The calculation of the trajectories in the Sun-Earth-Mars system will be performed in two different models, both in the framework of Newtonian mechanics. First model is well-known Copernican system, which assumes the Sun is at rest and all the planets orbit around it. Second one is less-known model developed by Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), according to which the Earth stands still, the Sun orbits around the Earth, and other planets orbit around the Sun. The term “Neo-tychonian system” refers to the assumption that orbits of distant masses around the Earth are synchronized with the Sun’s orbit. It is the aim of this paper to show the kinematical and dynamical equivalence of these systems, under the assumption of Mach’s principle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted June 17, 2019 Report Share Posted June 17, 2019 rravenwood, Grailknight, pinecone and 1 other 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 26, 2019 Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 pinecone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 27, 2019 Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 I abused one of my perks as Associate Director to peruse the grade distributions of the instructors who taught the "same" course as I did last fall. ("Same" in the sense of same course designation, but all of these have different content; the course title is "Inquiry Seminar in the Natural Sciences".) Of all of them, the two lowest course GPAs were both from people in the Physics Department and of those two the dead lowest was ... moi. (Buffs nails) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 Well, it's settled. Microwave digestion is out because it won't accommodate samples large enough to allow for differentiation between signal and noise. Ceramic and nickel crucibles are out because they leach lead into the acid used to retrieve the sample. Platinum crucibles it is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 27, 2019 Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 Ooo, swanky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 27, 2019 Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 Ceramic leaches into the crucible? Woof. What acid is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 27, 2019 Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 I am eavesdropping on a meeting of several staff members about course scheduling etc., and they have been slagging off on obnoxious tendencies of faculty in general for the last ten minutes. As has been noted before in many similar contexts, in such discussions the worst individual cases are what stick in people's minds and are mentioned as "typical". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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