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I hate St. Louis weather. I hate the cold. When can I move to Barbados?
First day of classes was a bore. Everyone warned me about the parking at UMSL, and it does suck balls. BUT, I found a parking garage close to my building today, so NO SNOW ON MY CAR. YEAH. Pretty bitchin'. Too bad it's a clusterfuck of 100 people trying to get in and out of the garage.
So I'm in this upper level writing class, called Writing in the Sciences. One thing I appreciate is that the professor emphasized that we are not to pander to lay people like Wired or some shit, but we're writing actual science journal articles for our peers. It always irks me when people posts links to shit they have no clue about on Facebook, like how they heart science and Schrödinger's cat. Or about how HOMG PHYSICISTS THINK THE UNIVERSE IS A VIDEO GAME!!!
^Pandering to supposed "nerds" who play xbox and like Neil deGrasse Tyson photos on facebook.
Schrödinger's cat has become the new e=mc^2. Nobody knows what the fuck it really means. All they know is that "the cat could be alive or dead, lol!"
This pisses me off to no end. THERE IS NO FUCKING CAT. THE CAT BEING ALIVE OR DEAD IS A METAPHOR.
“In some ways, you are who you are because other people observe you; but in some ways, you are who you are in spite of other people’s observations of you. One of the reasons nonphysists have latched on to Schrödinger’s thought experiment is because we all feel that tension between observed identity and interior identity.”
- John Green
NO. The reason people latch onto this fucking thing is that they want to sound smart while spouting of pseudo-scientific bullshit. Show me one of these douches that can coherently explain what a wave function is and how it relates to the fucking cat and I'll give them a science award.
First day of classes was a bore. Everyone warned me about the parking at UMSL, and it does suck balls. BUT, I found a parking garage close to my building today, so NO SNOW ON MY CAR. YEAH. Pretty bitchin'. Too bad it's a clusterfuck of 100 people trying to get in and out of the garage.
So I'm in this upper level writing class, called Writing in the Sciences. One thing I appreciate is that the professor emphasized that we are not to pander to lay people like Wired or some shit, but we're writing actual science journal articles for our peers. It always irks me when people posts links to shit they have no clue about on Facebook, like how they heart science and Schrödinger's cat. Or about how HOMG PHYSICISTS THINK THE UNIVERSE IS A VIDEO GAME!!!
^Pandering to supposed "nerds" who play xbox and like Neil deGrasse Tyson photos on facebook.
Schrödinger's cat has become the new e=mc^2. Nobody knows what the fuck it really means. All they know is that "the cat could be alive or dead, lol!"
This pisses me off to no end. THERE IS NO FUCKING CAT. THE CAT BEING ALIVE OR DEAD IS A METAPHOR.
“In some ways, you are who you are because other people observe you; but in some ways, you are who you are in spite of other people’s observations of you. One of the reasons nonphysists have latched on to Schrödinger’s thought experiment is because we all feel that tension between observed identity and interior identity.”
- John Green
NO. The reason people latch onto this fucking thing is that they want to sound smart while spouting of pseudo-scientific bullshit. Show me one of these douches that can coherently explain what a wave function is and how it relates to the fucking cat and I'll give them a science award.