Now, if you want to see some real technique, check out this video at Living the Scientific Life.
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Uncertain Chad asks "What's your favorite dubious proof technique?" I just don't have one dubious proof technique: I have an entire book of dubious proof techniques!
I'm teaching an intermediate-level class in the fall that I've taught a few times before with varying levels of success. I've taught it enough times that it's time to do some tweaking, and I find that I'm faced with a very interesting dilemma.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine has gone to Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin J. Evans for inventing a technique called Gene Targeting.
So you read that cool summary of how to build a molecular biology lab for $500. But wait, you don't know what you'd do with the mobio toys!
I am beginning to think there is something more to it: I regularly go sea fishing with two friends and one (the boat owner) is cursed. We can be hauling cod and mackerel out as fast as we can reel, and he is catching the seabed with astonishing regularity, losing tackle, snapping rods, turning his reel into birds nests.
He is a theosophist and regularly intones prayers to the God of cod.
Many years ago, fishing from a boat with my brother and parents on Lake Bemidji, my mother rared back to cast from the bow of the boat, zinged the rod forward, and snared my father with a Daredevil's treble hook through the cheek back where he was sitting by the motor. Laugh? Not on your life: we didn't want to swim back to the dock!
What's that at 0:13, a kingfish?
1:10 is fantastic, 0:26 is terrifying.