Haven’t been blogging much recently due to being busy and other excuses. But here’s a quick post that highlights something I did learn early on as a faculty member: students will often read a fair bit into your emails. For example, I discovered that “Please come to my office.” is a terrifying email.
The first clip is a series of responses to the question “Should evolution be taught in school?” by the 2011 Miss USA contestants. If you can’t get through the whole thing (I couldn’t), don’t worry — you’ll get the gist of it quickly enough. The second clip is a spoof of the first. Enjoy! [...]
Take it easy on Christina Aguilera, everybody. She only got asked to sing the national anthem at the Superbowl because, sadly, Enrico Pallazzo was not available.
Bill O’Reilly is curious about how tides work, why we have a moon, and where the sun came from. All of which are deep mysteries for which no answers can be found. Unless you look them up, of course. (When I was an undergraduate, Wikipedia didn’t exist yet, so I had to learn this [...]
This is BRILLIANT. From The Lay Scientist by Martin Robbins at The Guardian.
This is a news website article about a scientific paper
In the standfirst I will make a fairly obvious pun about the subject matter before posing an inane question I have no intention of really answering: is this an important scientific [...]