I'm a math grad student, so one of my duties is to teach precalc and calc to the non-majors. My university, within the last few years, has equipped many of our classrooms with a PC/DVD/document cam combo, all hooked up to a projector. Despite the first day, when I show the students where they can find the syllabus online, I keep it turned off. Math is for writing on the board, imho.
What about the service industry? A good-sized chunk of our nation's population (myself included for several years between undergrad and grad school) works in retail, food service, etc. These places will certainly still be open even if Election Day were declared a national holiday - the first Tuesday in November seems like the perfect time for a big sale to get the Christmas shopping season started!
Here's some specific examples of kryptonite affecting humans:
In Post-Crisis continuity (basically, between John Byrne's 1986 Man of Steel miniseries and either Mark Waid's Birthright a few years back or last year's Infinite Crisis, the dividing line still isn't clear), long-term exposure causes cancer, as mentioned above. Lex Luthor fashioned himself a ring of kryptonite to keep Superman at bay, but he ended up losing his hand, and eventually faked his own death and cloned a new body for himself as a result of it.
In Smallville continuity, kryptonite exposure can cause humans to manifest powers, as seen by the show's regular "freaks of the week".
"I think that was a rather big oversight on the part of Lucas, considering the Jedi Master who instructed Ben was Qui-Gonn, not Yoda. That one might be a little more difficult to explain away."
As shown in Attack of the Clones, Yoda instructed all the younglings classroom-style. Since Qui-Gon wasn't around in the OT, Obi-Wan calling Yoda "the Jedi Master who instructed me" rather than "one of the Jedi Masters who instructed me, even though the main one died 10 years before you were born" is perfectly valid and much less confusing.
"I don't see what would be wrong with having the more static subjects, like algebra, lower-level calculus, undergrad chemistry, physics, history, etc., primarily taught by video lectures."
That's exactly how we do it at my university for our algebra courses. I'm a graduate teaching assistant, and they see me once a week to go over the homework and turn it in. Everything else is done at their own pace, watching video lectures we have online. I can't remember the exact percentages, but our students have a pretty significantly higher pass rate than those in comparable courses at other institutions.
Some http://filmforce.ign.com/startrek/articles/529/529 522p1.htmlrumors that were going around last year indicated that a next movie wouldn't be about the TNG cast at all, but rather show an all new cast between Enterprise and TOS during the Romulan Wars.
Even more reason to avoid Anheuser Busch products. I'll take my microbrews any day of the week. Goose Island, Great Lakes, Bells, Three Floyds, the list goes on. If anyone wants to learn more about good beer, check out http://www.beeradvocate.com/
Well it's there, just not labeled. The little pinkish rectangle just to the left of the bright red rectangle indicating 742 Evergreen Terrace... that's the Flanders casbah. And I suppose the pinkish rectangle across the street from the bright red rectangle would be where Gerald Ford lives.
I didn't have a problem with the speed of the phaser in the communications room. The laws of physics were so screwed up in there, who's to say what's gonna happen?
Roddenberry wanted wrinkly foreheads all along. He finally had the resources to when TNG and the movies came out. Suspension of disbelief--shouldn't sci-fi fans be pretty good at this??
If anything, I think the Klingon blood we saw in Star Trek VI is the inconsistency. I can recall several times seeing Klingons bleed normal looking blood. One example is an episode of TNG--the Wild West holodeck one--when Worf got shot. Red blood.
One of the highlights of my mathematics education so far has been when John Conway was visiting Northwestern University last year for a series of lectures after winning the Nemmers Prize. My math prof got him to come in and lecture for us one day. The first thing he did was his day of the week finding algorithm, and I was the student whose birthdate he asked. And sure enough, maybe 2 or 3 seconds later, he proclaimed I was born on a Wednesday.
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The store asks for a receipt. If he in fact paid for his items, why not show them the receipt? They're entitled to make sure no one is shoplifting.
The cop asks for a driver's license. If he in fact has it on him, why not show it to him other than to continue his streak of being a dick?
I'm a math grad student, so one of my duties is to teach precalc and calc to the non-majors. My university, within the last few years, has equipped many of our classrooms with a PC/DVD/document cam combo, all hooked up to a projector. Despite the first day, when I show the students where they can find the syllabus online, I keep it turned off. Math is for writing on the board, imho.
What about the service industry? A good-sized chunk of our nation's population (myself included for several years between undergrad and grad school) works in retail, food service, etc. These places will certainly still be open even if Election Day were declared a national holiday - the first Tuesday in November seems like the perfect time for a big sale to get the Christmas shopping season started!
Here's some specific examples of kryptonite affecting humans:
In Post-Crisis continuity (basically, between John Byrne's 1986 Man of Steel miniseries and either Mark Waid's Birthright a few years back or last year's Infinite Crisis, the dividing line still isn't clear), long-term exposure causes cancer, as mentioned above. Lex Luthor fashioned himself a ring of kryptonite to keep Superman at bay, but he ended up losing his hand, and eventually faked his own death and cloned a new body for himself as a result of it.
In Smallville continuity, kryptonite exposure can cause humans to manifest powers, as seen by the show's regular "freaks of the week".
"I think that was a rather big oversight on the part of Lucas, considering the Jedi Master who instructed Ben was Qui-Gonn, not Yoda. That one might be a little more difficult to explain away."
As shown in Attack of the Clones, Yoda instructed all the younglings classroom-style. Since Qui-Gon wasn't around in the OT, Obi-Wan calling Yoda "the Jedi Master who instructed me" rather than "one of the Jedi Masters who instructed me, even though the main one died 10 years before you were born" is perfectly valid and much less confusing.
"I don't see what would be wrong with having the more static subjects, like algebra, lower-level calculus, undergrad chemistry, physics, history, etc., primarily taught by video lectures."
That's exactly how we do it at my university for our algebra courses. I'm a graduate teaching assistant, and they see me once a week to go over the homework and turn it in. Everything else is done at their own pace, watching video lectures we have online. I can't remember the exact percentages, but our students have a pretty significantly higher pass rate than those in comparable courses at other institutions.
...was found alive in four or five of the recovered canisters...
So which was it, hmm? Four or five?
Some http://filmforce.ign.com/startrek/articles/529/529 522p1.htmlrumors that were going around last year indicated that a next movie wouldn't be about the TNG cast at all, but rather show an all new cast between Enterprise and TOS during the Romulan Wars.
Getting very off-topic here, but it's SeinFELD.
Oooh! Will we be treated to another heartfelt performance by O.J. Simpson?
*ponder*
Why is discussing beer offtopic?
Even more reason to avoid Anheuser Busch products.
I'll take my microbrews any day of the week. Goose Island, Great Lakes, Bells, Three Floyds, the list goes on.
If anyone wants to learn more about good beer, check out http://www.beeradvocate.com/
Well it's there, just not labeled. The little pinkish rectangle just to the left of the bright red rectangle indicating 742 Evergreen Terrace... that's the Flanders casbah. And I suppose the pinkish rectangle across the street from the bright red rectangle would be where Gerald Ford lives.
Yeah he was, just raised by humans. B'elanna from Voyager was the half-Klingon.
I didn't have a problem with the speed of the phaser in the communications room. The laws of physics were so screwed up in there, who's to say what's gonna happen?
Roddenberry wanted wrinkly foreheads all along. He finally had the resources to when TNG and the movies came out. Suspension of disbelief--shouldn't sci-fi fans be pretty good at this??
If anything, I think the Klingon blood we saw in Star Trek VI is the inconsistency. I can recall several times seeing Klingons bleed normal looking blood. One example is an episode of TNG--the Wild West holodeck one--when Worf got shot. Red blood.
One of the highlights of my mathematics education so far has been when John Conway was visiting Northwestern University last year for a series of lectures after winning the Nemmers Prize. My math prof got him to come in and lecture for us one day. The first thing he did was his day of the week finding algorithm, and I was the student whose birthdate he asked. And sure enough, maybe 2 or 3 seconds later, he proclaimed I was born on a Wednesday.