The Boy Who Hated Chemistry
“I’ve finished my required chemistry courses. I’ll never have to open another chemistry book for the rest of my life. Now, anytime I see the periodic table, I can point at it and laugh.”
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Telling In Few Words
Administrative positions are often filled by people who are very articulate. The best candidates are those who don’t sacrifice communication clarity to satisfy social expectations. However, one doesn’t want to alienate co-workers by moving about the office with an air of superiority. There needs to be a comfortable relationship between administrators and employees so that…
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Bacteria Drinking
One news item and one documentary inspired comment: a few weeks ago it was reported that a disease research facility had successfully mapped out the genetics of the strain responsible for the 1918? flu pandemic. Some people got scared and cried out “Why would you ever do such a thing?! Do you want millions more…
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Psycho
If you’re home alone, no cars in the driveway, and you want to take a shower, is it safer to keep entrance doors locked or unlocked? This question and the following discussion are important to read if you’re trying to kill time in front of a computer. The situation is highly dependent on numerous variables….
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If This Were Happening
Sometimes I like to imagine possible future situations and decide how I would react to them. For example: 1. a doctor tells me I have cancer 2. an emergency news broadcast reports that the pandemic, 7 years behind schedule but none the weaker, has finally arrived. But not necessarily unfortunate, so these as well: 1….
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Everything Riding On My Claim
I don’t like to be in situations where the actions of others are motivated entirely by what I claim to have been witness to. This has happened before. I came home to find a naked man passed out on my sister’s bed. I ran to my mom, who was working about 200 yards away, and…
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No Crutches
If I need to remember to do something in the morning, I throw my pants on the floor or displace an object on my desk, anything that will strike me as odd and cannot go unnoticed when I wake up. I’ll know I purposefully moved the object or threw the pants on the floor the…
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Hello?…..Hello?
Where is the ear doctor? I have questions for him: when we have a ringing in our ear, does this contribute to hearing loss? Are there sounds undetectable to the human ear which contribute to hearing loss?
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Sqcreak Sqcrawk Chemical Candy
When you’re walking in the vicinity of a chemical fire and getting a whiff of the toxic fumes, I would like to see a science fair project exploring the relationship between a person’s recoiling reaction to the bad smell and the effects the fumes are having on them. When you smell a sick thing, you…
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Company Defined Human
Many people change their vocabulary and behavior according to where they are and who is around them, the company they’re in. I do this too. I’m not going to tell a professor that she’s spewing bullshit, though I might if I were addressing a drunk bastard around a bonfire. This is not to say that…