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The PhysQuiz.net September 2025 newsletter! Coulomb's Law diagrams, APĀ® Physics 1 & 2 exemplars, pop-out calculator, and more #physics #physicsed #iteachphysics mailchi.mp/physquiz.net...
I donāt know how PuTTY was able to be better than an Mac or Linux terminal app Iāve ever used, but itās still the only thing Iāve ever missed about using Windows
Just scheduled on CVS's website for a vaccine in Ohio, all I had to do was check the box for "high risk" (which I am)
Just starting my sixth year of teaching in person with a mask, it's amazing how effective they are
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Just gonna leave this here: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
oops! š¬
Our oldest had such a bad case that the doctor asked if she could take photos to show her med students š¤¦š»āāļø
Feels like an early STTNG episode where alien parasites take over the Federation's leadership Revere now, too
āI donāt want to hear these people talk. Spin the wheel.ā - my 5 yo daughter watching the first few minutes of Wheel of Fortune
0.1 precision here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
0.01 precision here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I was looking for a clean and simple periodic table that was easy to read with a fixed-width serif font that clearly differentiated between lowercase L, uppercase i, and 1. I couldn't quite find what I wanted, so I made my own! 0.001 precision here #chemed #iteachchem docs.google.com/document/d/1...
RFK Jr. should go hang out with the Norton football team
AI
According to William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social, itās āThe Jackpotā
Being called a "quack" in medicine is a pretty serious accusation that can stick to someone and impact or end their career, like Dr. Tenpenny from Ohio who claimed that covid vaccines magnetize people and (temporarily) lost her medical license and had to pay a fine www.cleveland.com/news/2024/05...
I read it like William Shatner in my head
Congratulations on making such a great point! š„³
I was about to drop that factoid too!
Haven't gone the nasal spray route, I'm so congested from teaching through a mask for 8 hours each weekday that I can barely get the navage to work!
Good luck! We go back for two days for presentations, meetings, and a few minutes to get our classrooms ready for Wednesday
I mask and use an air filter in my classroom, and I started taking generic Claritin (loratadine) daily since I read that paper because it's so cheap and there aren't really any downsides, wondering if I should start taking famotidine to try to make it through another school year without getting sick
Thanks for this info! I read a study from 2024 that talks about using antihistamines to prevent covid infections in the first place, does this align with what you're referencing? I've been teaching in person for the past 5 years & I'm trying to make it to retirement! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
I was going to post almost the same thing! We met through a message board in late 2000 and got married in 2003 but were always vague about how we started dating because we didnāt want people to think we were weird, now itās a pretty boring story
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that's for the best
init 0?
shutdown -h now
I tried to protect my lunch and prep periods last year but I had too many nice kids who wanted to hang out in my empty classroom instead of going to the lunchroom, so the tradeoff was that I was able to build some great relationships. This year is a contract year so my resolution should be š¤
Also not ready for school to start
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Last year I had four, the year before that I had six - they stacked two AP classes during the same period because enrollment was small, on odd days I taught one course and on evens I taught the other
I thought a āroustaboutā was a word made up by The Decemberists
Also it has helped incompetent people think they sound like experts without doing the work or gaining a deep understanding of the topic, so theyāre pushing it too; if everyoneās using it, thereās no shame in being a fraud
If Ohio taxpayers are expected to fund private schools through vouchers, then the private schools need to publish the same data as the public schools, including attendance, graduation rate, and mandated state test scores
Print it and hide it above a drop ceiling panel
I was there. I remember the day that AOL connected to Usenet. It's only been downhill since then.
Great example of the Streisand Effect, this becomes a bigger story than if you had just been allowed to attend their probably boring meeting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisa...
July 2025 is one for the atmospheric record books. The rising waters have claimed many lives; prompted dramatic rescues, including from subway cars; and caused millions of dollarsā worth of property damage. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky š§Ŗ
She was also wrong on the radio (NPR) on numerous occasions
Looking forward to school administrators explaining to parents that they didn't know that ChatGPT would encourage their kids to sacrifice the family pet in the name of Satan www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Looking forward to schools getting sued by parents for encouraging students to use ChatGPT for assignments and instead having them learn how to perform ritual sacrifice www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Love the alt text on this šš»
"Conjure"
Why does this building look like a giant harmonica
Did your aunt read the same novel?
Give them time, there won't be schools
My freshman year two sophomores showed up to school on Halloween wearing their grandfathersā klan robes. We werenāt allowed to wear costumes to school after that
ozzy osbourne in famous works of art: thread
Iāve had high school students in advanced science classes who donāt know how to read an analog clock
noooooooo
Ohio is cold Florida
This is also true for our government
Nothing ruins a good carrot cake like nuts
āon of the scientistsā
Those are confirmed numbers, there have been estimates that are several times higher, unfortunately
Thereās a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldnāt pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like āmRNAā and āriboflavinā and āwalkable citiesā decided to make their ignorance everybody elseās problem
About 10 months too late
I think theyāre missing the Oxford comma after ārecyclableā, because most plastics degrade when theyāre recycled due to heat affecting their chemical structure
I agree with you that schools are a cauldron of disease, more so now that so many kids have compromised immune systems due to repeat covid infections, but suing the schools will go nowhere. The only hope is community engagement and education, especially about masks and air filters.
You could maybe, maybe find evidence that a school district was allowing large numbers of students to attend school without meeting the stateās vax requirement, but what legal damages are you claiming? Can you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that your child got sick at school and nowhere else?
If your child was in a class with a student who was allowed to attend school despite not having met a vaccine requirement or claimed an exemption, and then your child got sick, Iām not sure how you would prove in court that that student was the one who got your child sick without some sort of test.
As a public school teacher in Ohio, Iām not sure what responsibility our district has that could be challenged in court. Ohio allows parents to use a religious exemption form for any vaccine requirement that the state imposes. With all due respect, your quarrel is with the states, not the schools.
Freedom to get sick or die from preventable diseases
Child tax credits & relatively low gas prices aināt gonna do it, you need to make the state better to live in and raise children in, yet Ohioās politicians have spent the past 20+ years making it a worse place to live by waging war on social services & infrastructure to fund tax cuts for the rich
I taught Environmental Science for 14 years and when we got to the population demographics unit I saw attitudes among my students (especially girls) about having children go from mostly positive to mostly neutral to largely negative because of cost of living, climate change, and politics
Oh absolutely, things like the AFT deal are just gross
I think they think the money is too good to pass up but theyāre selling their longterm credibility in exchange for flawed technology that makes students think less
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
Kill your own people to own the libs
I used to show this slide in class when I taught Environmental Science and before I would show it I would ask how many students had heard that wind turbines killed birds (several), but when they saw the graph they always had lots of stories to share about their own cats being bird murderers
I teach in Ohio and our Republican Governor Mike DeWine was the one who closed schools starting in mid-March 2020 through the rest of that school year - which I supported because I saw how many people had already died in NYC! Monica Gandhi is no better than a professional troll at this point.
I have a job that requires a college degree. I have health insurance. Itās terrible and has all kinds of exclusions and limitations.
you need to clear those cookies
I havenāt read that book in two decades and there are still memories of it that give me chills
She articulates the issue much better than I can: bsky.app/profile/kend...
It's purposeful, an uninformed electorate is much more easily manipulated
You know who never abandoned the school that they sponsored?
I love that scene
Just trying to provide an alternative science-based option that has worked for me, I also have a pre-existing condition that puts me at higher risk but Iām too far along into my career to switch at this point and still be able to pay my bills. I really only meant it to be helpful
Masks arenāt a panacea of course and Iāve opted out of a number of events like teacher luncheons where the primary focus is food and everyone is crammed in closely, so I definitely get the hesitation and I appreciate you saying something publicly about it, youāre not the only one
Iāve been in any number of crowded situations since the pandemic started and have been masked without any problems or illnesses, the only bummer is having to step outside to eat or drink something but itās usually much quieter and more peaceful than inside anyway
These are the masks Iāve been using to teach in person for the past five years without taking a single sick day and Iāve only gotten covid once (tested positive the day after Xmas of course), theyāre pretty lightweight and my students have no problem understanding me www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7VYDBH...
This accurately describes about two decades of my teaching career, I had to back off and go analog as much as possible after the hybrid year because it was too much
Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...
The push to embed AI into classroom teaching is absolutely going to be used to justify increasing the number of students teachers have so that they can cut teaching positions to pay for the AI subscriptions. āUse AI to respond to parent emails!ā is recipe for disaster
Efficiency is not effectiveness. āSpeed and efficiency are not educational valuesā¦When it comes to learning, what matters is the learning. We have to be careful not to fall into the trap of privileging speedier outcomes.ā
NIN/Heathcliff crossover? bsky.app/profile/real...
Gus is not only the best track on this album but itās a top 5 in the entire catalog, I saw it performed live in Pittsburgh on Fatherās Day years ago with my wife and young child and Iāll never forget that groove
I've taught in public schools long enough to know that you only say nice things to the copier