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6 hours ago, Pariah said:

Astronomy, as we currently understand it, is what happened when Astrology met "correlation≠causation".

So philosophy of logic. Not a thing that I’m aware of yet... 

 

*waits for book on logic I ordered to arrive*

 

edit: I reckon I could assemble my own qualitative science of astronomy. 

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I saw something on social media today suggesting that any academic Journal article could be made more interesting by adding the words "Harry Potter and" to the beginning of the title. For example:

 

"Harry Potter and Isotopic Ratios of Lead  in Contemporary Environmental Material from Scotland"

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40 minutes ago, Pariah said:

I saw something on social media today suggesting that any academic Journal article could be made more interesting by adding the words "Harry Potter and" to the beginning of the title. For example:

 

"Harry Potter and Isotopic Ratios of Lead  in Contemporary Environmental Material from Scotland"

 

A classic, right up there with Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying.

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Harry Potter and Fracture Mechanics in Concrete Roadway Support Structures 

 

Harry Potter and the Fourth Council of Sirmium

 

Harry Potter and Quartal and Quintal Harmony

 

Harry Potter and Dialectical Materialism 

 

Harry Potter and the Jailbait Babysitters of Gor

 

Harry Potter and Kahnweiler's Cubists versus the Salon Cubists

 

Harry Potter and Non-parametric Heirarchical Bayesian Models

 

... And each of those books is 120 pages longer than the one before it, just like the original Potter books.  And being academic textbooks, they start at $248.00 a copy!

 

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I believe I found my defining Complication:

 

Psychological Complication: Philosophically opposed to doing for for students what they are perfectly capable of doing for themselves; Very Common, Total. 25 points.

 

Buy a Psychological Complication at full price, get a Negative Reputation for free!

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