I find out tomorrow if I have to report on Thursday (having already postponed as long as I could).
I find out tomorrow if I have to report on Thursday (having already postponed as long as I could).
From @theoatmeal.bsky.social (https://theoatmeal.com/comics/email_monster), a laptop projectile-vomits dozens of email envelopes with a large THBBBBTT!!!, knocking over a person sitting in a chair. A tentacled email monster says LOLOLOLOLOL
anyone else trying to take a sip from a firehose today?
Also the "eagle" scream is a red-tailed hawk, if I recall correctly.
Related: the kids these days have not seen Contact, so you don't have to bother referencing it πΆ π¦
be an expert in your field or you'll be left behind
In my #OTD threads I often try to draw attention to important scientists who historically haven't received the same recognition as their peers.
A science education involves a lot of lore: Stories and anecdotes meant to flesh out a narrative about the development of a field...
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Imagine a spherical harmonic cow
I'm not sure how much more evidence school administrators and teachers need before they put a stop to socializing children into lifelong Google customers and users of Gemini, but I sure hope that day arrives sooner rather than later.
Technically true tho lol
The guy said the whole piece was written by Claude. So I think the value of it is zero.
Students are getting "you'll fall behind" messages from every direction, but I can only tell a finite number of them that knowing how to think for yourself isn't falling behind... it's a perfect example of the bullshit asymmetry principle.
Kid behavior level βΎοΈ
Today: [first day of spring break for mom and dad]
Kid: π€’ [stays home from school]
TFW the diy fridge repair youβve been putting off for weeks takes 4.5 hours and doesnβt appear to have helped until 3 days later.
reminding me of the time that i opened the book and picked an intro physics problem for pre-med students to do in group work and the solution turned out to involve a quartic equation in cosΞΈ.
i have so many more questions than i want
0/10 so confusing
The night before I took the Physics GRE, I dreamt all night that my clock was wrong and that I had to figure out the formula to calculate the correct time so that I wouldn't miss the test. Every time I woke up in the night, I looked at the clock and wondered if that was the real time. π΅βπ«
in cleaning out my mom's house, i found a letter from my mom to her mom circa 1987 in which she described my dad going in for a follow-up cholesterol test (having eaten hamburgers for breakfast *and* lunch immediately before his previous test).
Maybe the real joke was the work we did along the way
thin mints implies the existence of thick mints
Honey, I Shrunk the Jorts
can God create a question so bleak that it answers itself
Screenshot of snowfall amounts from a weather app. For the next 24, 36, and 48 hours, it predicts cumulative snowfall of 1 in, <1 in, and 1 in.
Somethingβs gonna happen in the next 36 hours π³
one of the best parts of being a dad is eating the last (cold) chicken nugget
After Lisa Simpson asks asked what's inside him, Nelson (dressed up for an evening picnic) says "guts and black stuff... and about 50 slim jims."
is there any soup liberals ARE excited about?
I am hard-pressed to know what this image would mean even without the abomination.
Gung RoulΓ© Mubarak