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Monday, March 21, 2011

What We Learn from College: Part 2

Some more, 'what the hell?' professor-al comments from second semester of college (2009-2010).

A very short list. I wasn't very good at keeping track of the silly things my professors said...


General Chemistry

This is a fire blanket. It is useful for many things. Putting out fires is NOT one of them.

You know that Noble Gases aren't exactly friendly named, right? The Nobles didn't do anything...just like the Noble Gases You can bet that hundreds of years ago when these scientists were naming the periodic table, they were all like "stick it to the man! Let's name them Noble gases!

And now let's work with propane...and propane accessories.

Organismal Biology

Yes, there is a book about discovering your inner fish.

Archeology and the Bible

Like when the Assyrian army apparently all perished while invading Israel. What killed them? Plague? "Bad water?
Classmate: Swine flu


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