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I give you three comic series that I loved as a kid. There was this comic collection that came out weekly, printed in black and white. Each issue featured several pages of each of several recurring comics. Not all stories were advanced every week. The collection came out on Tuesdays and I would buy it at a news stand…
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Why your teaching assistant may seem robotic Words that make people’s skin crawl Why you can’t lose weight on a diet Professor or Hobo? Being an adult Modern Solo adventures Interview with Santa’s raindeer wrangler Criticism and ineffective feedback Deadpool
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An institution has tasks A-Z that need to be done. Tasks Q-Z are very important, but are considerably more laborious than other tasks and also have to be done 2x or 4x more frequently. The task-assignment system has each employee submit a small number of preferred tasks. Usually, an employee will be assigned one or two among their preferred tasks…
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I am not a particularly neat person. I start my semester with a very clean desk, and then just let stuff accumulate. There are piles with HW assignments, scribbles that I made during office hours, random pages from drafts of manuscripts with marked-up edits on them, all interspersed with books that I pulled out to look…
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Okay… I know the following is no one’s first choice for a blog topic, but we gotta do this. It won’t hurt too much, I promise! The tentative release date for “Academaze” is a little over a month away. Melanie has demonstrated superhuman patience in working with me (thanks, Melanie!) and the collection is coming along nicely. This is…
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Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth Be With You
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Days like today, when I have both a power lecture and a discussion section, leave me completely drained. Nearly 3 hours of talking and walking and prancing around with markers, writing on the board. I draw and derive everything on the spot, which helps with the pace of my delivery and with students taking notes, but it takes considerable…
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I have always thought of myself as a diehard scientist. Yet, the older I get, the more often I ask, “What’s the point of all this, exactly?” And I find that the only things that quench, temporarily, this existential angst are works of art. Hearing a beautiful piece of music, seeing a really good movie, reading a well-written…
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———————— * This joke is for everyone who’s ever loved (or hated) the quantization of total angular momentum, J. The z-component of total angular momentum is denoted by Jz. For a given j (the quantum number that characterizes the magnitude of total angular momentum as J=ℏ√j(j+1) ), Jz can have 2j+1 different values. * In case you don’t really follow pop-culture, the joke refers…
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You know how November is the month for writing? NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) both happen in November. I blogged daily in November over the past few years, as it’s a great way to purge the metaphorical lactic acid from the “writing muscles” that were straining to make the late…
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