On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:46 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: > * I swear by the beard of Sir Francis Bacon that I shall never loaf in > chemistry > May the pain of 500ml of the most terrible reagent to be found in the > laboratory > be inflicted upon my wretched being if I should ever indulge in the > transgression > of procrastination. So help me Dalton. > > > Wow. Maybe I should institute this in Gen Chem.
If you teach chemistry, you really need to talk to PQ. He's been teaching science at SLV for almost 55 years now. He's a pretty amazing teacher in the way that he inspires students, and doesn't let them not learn. And he hardly ever needs to use the guillotine on slackers. > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Stan Halpin > <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: >> >> On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:11 AM, Bob W wrote: >>> >>>> those wacky physicists will really be letting their hair down when they >>>> celebrate this year's Ig Prize: >>>> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19667664> >>> >>> The Acoustics prize amused me. Each year, the science club at my high >>> school (The Brotherhood of Natural Philosophers, Chemistry and Physics >>> affiliated) would hold it's annual installation of new members (we weren't >>> allowed to call it initiation) at the house of our faculty advisor: >>> http://home.comcast.net/~pqboom/tour/tour.html >>> >>> One of the traditions would be to quiz (interrogate) each of the >>> perspective members (specimens) in front of everyone, while they spoke into >>> a microphone that was connected to a reel to reel tape deck that could play >>> things back with either a slight delay, or an echo loop. People would be >>> given some simple task such as reciting the alphabet (backwords) or the >>> Oath (*), and part way through, the person running the tape deck would kick >>> in the time delay on playback. Hearing your own words after a slight >>> delay, I can assure you, is a very disconcerting and disorienting (maybe >>> that's why Tsukada developed his invention, he wanted to be disoriented) >>> experience. >>> >> Going on fifty years ago, as an undergraduate I had a class in Perception. >> Mostly visual perception, but we did have a chance to participate in one of >> the grad student's experiments. He had one of the neurological >> diseases/conditions, and he was using tape-delayed feedback as an analogue >> to the sort of signal scramble he experienced all of the time. He hoped to >> develop means for training those with such disabilities to be able to better >> cope with their distorted signal reception. I have no clue whether any of >> that work ever turned out, but it was an interesting idea . . . >> >> stan >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
