Here's something I'm interested to know, and would greatly appreciate responses, either here or via email. It may have been blogged about somewhere, but I haven't come across it in the blogosphere.
To any experimentalists: What made you want to become an experimentalist? When did you first 'know'? Was it something you read? Was it an experiment you did? Was it something else?
To any theorists: Same question - what made you want to become a theorist? Something you read? Does theory just appeal to you more? Something else?
If it takes a chicken and a half a day and a half to lay an egg and a half how long does it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
What is the weirdest thing you written on a test? What the weirdest thing you seen on a test?
I just finished a lab midterm that involved a lot of waiting, where the TA encouraged us to draw pictures of dinosaurs and such. And I delivers. I hope she reads xkcd and watches the Colbert Report, else I going to do some explaining.
A friend of my father, a math professor, once grade a test marked on every page with "please turn page" & ended with "see you next year".
What are your recommended physics books for Jr High?
Why?
Why not?
Are we there yet?
Do we live in a landscape of possible universes???
Will the Browns ever not suck in my lifetime???
What IS my dog thinking????
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
Here's something I'm interested to know, and would greatly appreciate responses, either here or via email. It may have been blogged about somewhere, but I haven't come across it in the blogosphere.
To any experimentalists: What made you want to become an experimentalist? When did you first 'know'? Was it something you read? Was it an experiment you did? Was it something else?
To any theorists: Same question - what made you want to become a theorist? Something you read? Does theory just appeal to you more? Something else?
If it takes a chicken and a half a day and a half to lay an egg and a half how long does it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
What...is your name?
What is the weirdest thing you written on a test? What the weirdest thing you seen on a test?
I just finished a lab midterm that involved a lot of waiting, where the TA encouraged us to draw pictures of dinosaurs and such. And I delivers. I hope she reads xkcd and watches the Colbert Report, else I going to do some explaining.
A friend of my father, a math professor, once grade a test marked on every page with "please turn page" & ended with "see you next year".
Is this a stupid question?
This is more of a comment than a question....
*lol* Anon, I love the last one. It reminded me I had a post about FAQ's in seminars.
Will anyone watch the History's Channel program on Star Trek tonight?