1. Do the responsibilities associated with being a janitor override the moral taboo of entering a restroom designated to the opposite sex? By this I mean would a female/male janitor receive dissenting looks if they went into a male/female restroom to begin their cleaning routine. 2. Methane gas might explain foggy-brained seniors. Evolution did not…
Bargain deal publicity from car dealerships in small towns doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t drive or want to, so I’m no authority, but I’ve always thought that it is the brand of car, not the dealership, that determines which car someone will buy. So that paying for TV and radio air time to…
Disclaimer: the following post is very offensive and ignorant. Rebuke: for precisely these same reasons it is also a kind of entertainment. Last semester we had weekly physics quizzes. About halfway through the course the quiz given provided a linear motion quantity and asked for the equivalent quantity expressed in rotational motion, so that net…
I wonder what the consequence of the following would be: if ever since the beginning of the human species (an undefined range of many years, I’m aware) newborns were endowed with all the knowledge that had been gained by humanity up till the time of their birth, so that teaching the material in school would…
I wonder how long people could live if they underwent organ and bone marrow transplants whenever necessary. If your kidneys are 85 years old and on the verge of failing, replace them with a pair from a teen who is being kept alive solely for use as an organ garden. Likewise with other body parts….
There are, no doubt, sadistic airline passengers who derive pleasure from the screams of babies who are reacting to eardrum pressure torture during landing. It is startling how effortlessly the sadists maintain an expression of calm, flat-faced traveler’s boredom despite their gargantuan inner smile.
The way people formulate thought is largely dependent on the language with which they are speaking to themselves. Moreover, some things are easier to think about using a particular language over another. For example, I read of some physicist who claimed that it was easier to solve a quantum physics problem when he considered the problem…
Some inter-personal frustration could be avoided if conversation participants adhered to the following etiquette: a. when someone is talking, others are silent. [non verbal communication permissible] b. the speaking person pauses periodically to allow for any input or rebuke. Aggressive conversationalists take note.
I’ve finished the mathematics requirement for a BSEE. It also turns out that I’ve got enough math behind me for a math minor. I had a lot of fun with diffeque, it’s tempting to continue in that direction with either applied analysis, numerical analysis, or intro to complex analysis. 3.5 years till graduation.
I’m not fond of graphs because my experience has led me to associate them with mundane math. They also make the line between math and art that much more undefined. But here are two I enjoy: What we have above is a 2D representation of the changes in head feeling that I, and I’m sure…
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