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6_bleen_7

Random Stuff XLIII

Feb 05, 2008 22:02

I’ve been teaching a graduate-level course for three weeks now, and it’s nearly wiping me out. Whenever I get a free hour or two, I spend it comatose, in a desperate attempt to pay off the compound interest on my sleep debt. I don’t know what I’d do if my boss hadn’t kindly left me her lecture notes and old assignments ( Read more... )

random_shit, nature, wurds, cats, evolution, religion

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samcurt February 6 2008, 05:19:15 UTC

I don't even think Catholic priests needed to sign this either. The Pope said creationism is not science and should not try to portray it that way.

6_bleen_7 February 7 2008, 02:15:55 UTC

Yes; that was one of Pope John Paul II's forward-thinking contributions. George Coyne was an outspoken critic of Intelligent Design creationism while head of the Vatical Observatory. The Jewish Rabbinical Council has also weighed in to voice their support of evolution as science, as has the leadership of the Episcopal Church. Francis Collins, famed leader of the Human Genome Project and devout Christian, has expended much effort into demonstrating, by his own example, that religion and science can coexist. Unfortunately, the folks who have yet to be so enlightened wield momentous political power in the USA.

ex_ciannait February 6 2008, 05:29:39 UTC

Your cat stories are made of win and awesome. Plus, being a teacher only gets better, joyce tells me. :)

6_bleen_7 February 7 2008, 01:47:05 UTC

Aw, thanks! The great thing is that our crazy cats write all my material; I only have to report it.

Oh yes, next year I'll have about 30 hours a week less work for this class.

samwibatt February 6 2008, 07:37:01 UTC

Hoo boy - that last vid was a corker. I about pooed for laughing at the lion.

6_bleen_7 February 6 2008, 18:37:52 UTC

The lion has really grown on me. At first I thought him atrociously dubbed; but then I considered his expression, and decided that the dialog was indeed an accurate translation. (He reminds me of that still from the obscure movie with the actor paused halfway through saying, "Hey! I wwwwworship Gomez!") The other animal that really got me was the duckling in the fox's mouth. That was very well done.

Oh yeah-and that two-dozen-legged sea star brought to mind those gigantic starfish that took up residence in our crab pots in Alaska.

samwibatt February 9 2008, 00:49:44 UTC

The crab pots are what I thought of too, seeing the sea star. That Godzilla sequence with it was hilarious.

The other thing that just kills me is the troop of monkeys slogging through the waist-deep water.

6_bleen_7 February 9 2008, 05:31:20 UTC

Oh yes, that really got me going, too.

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6_bleen_7 February 6 2008, 18:33:29 UTC

Aw, gosh, thanks! This semester it's not stage fright (with the exception of the first lecture), but rather the amount of preparation that goes into my lectures. You're familiar with how much work goes into an hour lecture. I have to prepare three times that much material every week. It does help that I'm teaching squarely within my field of expertise. Who knows what I'd be like if I had to teach, say, population genetics ( ... )