So what’s more important? Two extra points in your score or concentrating on understanding the secrets of the universe? Kids have become so trivial and grade-conscious to miss the whole […] Read More
Category: Education
Here I have posted things pertaining to my teaching career…videos, etc.
In reply to a ridiculous video of college students on Jones Beach in New York unable to answer some very simple questions about American history, I replied, “I know a […] Read More
With four finals down and two to go, I am awash in red ink. The unbridled carnage of an epic academic disaster has been unleashed…never in thirty-five years of teaching […] Read More
During the past three days, three teachers have commented to me how our students are endlessly complaining about something, how the kids appreciate nothing they do for them… I mentioned […] Read More
Here is a short demonstration of the oxidizing power of molten potassium chlorate on a small piece of wood (thanks Jessie)…this was period 5 today…
To an atheist, I recently replied, I hope that in your wisdom you arrive at the conclusion, as I have, that we (as in our entire physical existence) are a […] Read More
You know how they say “Last one is the best?” Well, here is the graduate level word problem: A rope is hung over a fence so that an equal length […] Read More
Today I told my chemistry class that Deep Purple was going back out on tour but they needed a bass player after theirs had retired. Told them a month and […] Read More
About a year and a half ago, as I was saying goodbye at the end of a fall semester to one of my college classes up in Portland, one of […] Read More
Consider, if you will, what is called the Anthropic Principle. It’s the notion that our physical world has been precisely tuned to accommodate Man on Earth. There are dozens of […] Read More