Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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May 09 2007

Seminar notes: On teaching physics

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Several lessons learned from Randall Knight: Students fail to learn mechanics from "physics 101" type classes for some identifiable reasons. For one thing, they come in with extensive phenomenological knowledge, but their understanding of it is extremely flawed. A student has ridden a bike at one time or another in his life, and he knows …

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Apr 19 2007

Feel my confusion

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Example: Tonight I'm sitting on the couch next to Jessica. She is drinking tea out of a heavy corelware mug. Then I hear something that sounds like the cup hitting her skull. Me: "What the hell was that?" "I hit the top of my head with the cup." "[long pause] What?! Why?" "Well, the cup …

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Apr 17 2007

A Disturbing Trendline

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I found this data on the Gallup website: At this rate, it will take almost 2000 years for americans to come to grips with the fact that they are on their own, developed from lower species, and are an accident of nature. That's a long damned time to accept a well-established scientific fact. Also, check …

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Apr 12 2007

Solitudinous Shitting

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In the Men's Room on my floor, there are two stalls. The doors each have locks that have a slot on the outside, and could be theoretically manipulated with a screwdriver or some such object. Is it wrong that I have seriously considered locking the stall I'm not using before doing my business? Look, it's …

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Mar 27 2007

There's a hazing ritual for any club

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As a grad student in physics, I tend to think of myself as completely opposite of a frat guy. I care about knowing things, studying hard, not getting into fights, not any gay stuff. But there is certainly one experience that I share with frat guys. I want to be part of the scientific community. …

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