#Science courses

[falseandrealultravival]

Science education should be mandatory in university education

In my view, the prosperity of IT in India and China is superficial. It all boils down to the absence of any Fields Medal winners in the mathematics that underlies computers in these two countries.

When I told a Japanese blog friend about this, he replied, "No, Indians have produced presidents of MS and Google, and SEs who graduated from Indian Institutes of Technology are highly paid." However, I had written to him in advance as a premise that "India is inferior mathematically, not in terms of economic success," but he ignored it.

So I compared Ramanujan, a leading mathematician from India, and Galois from France, and wrote that there was a huge gap between the two in their achievements, and that Ramanujan was far inferior. He didn't listen to the logic, moved on to other problems, and fled.

He is a graduate of the private Keio University, which is said to be an excellent university in Japan, and is a liberal arts major. As a common practice of this kind of student, they only trust what they hear and their ears, and do not try to think for themselves. Such graduates will only cause harm to the world.

Science courses should definitely be included in university education. A liberal arts-only education is 'harmful and useless'.

Rei Morishita

大学教育は、理科系教育を必須とすべし

私は、インド、中国のITの隆盛は、表面的なものだと見ている。コンピュータの基礎になる数学において、この両国にはフィールズ賞受賞者が皆無であることがすべてを語っている。

さて私は日本のブログ友に、この話をしたが、「いや、インド人はMSやグーグルの社長を輩出し、インドの工科大学卒業のSEは高給取りだ」と返した。もっとも、私は前提として「経済的な成功ではなく、数学的に見て、インドが劣っている」と彼には予め書いたのだが、彼は無視した。

そこで私はインドの代表的な数学者：ラマヌジャンと、フランスのガロアを比較し、両者はその業績において雲泥の差があり、ラマヌジャンがはるかに劣る、と書いた。彼はその論理に耳を貸さず、別の問題にすり替えて、逃げまわった。

彼は、日本では優秀な大学と言われる私立の慶応大学の卒業生で、文科系である。この種の学生の通弊として、聞いたこと、耳のみ信用し、自分の頭で考えようとはしない。こんな卒業生は、世の中に害悪を流すだけである。

大学教育には、理科系の教程を、必ず組み込むべきであろう。文科系だけの教養は、「有害無益」だ。

[rochenn]

The Jedi Order mainly being an institution about teaching makes me sad that we never see more "Jedi classes" outside of the popular ones like martial arts, healthcare and Force wackery.

Alongside basic language and science education etc there have to be at least some trade and college courses on offer, right? The Jedi need a bunch of their own people with law degrees. Proper pedagogy studies for future crèchemasters. Cooks. Managers. All types of engineers. Electricians. Accountants. Researchers. How many Jedi hold a doctorate or professorate? Because I think a large number of them do. Their databanks are filled with millennia of dissertations. You can still find Yoda's articles from 500 years ago and cite them in your history research paper.

The Order just having its own micro-economy going on and every member getting their own regular job education next to all the lightsaber swinging adventures... pls

[kawoid]

awkward nerds

[soarrenbluejay]

Supervillains for a community. (Well, except those jerks over in Gotham, insular lot, but they’re they’re one problem) Of course they do- supervillains are a group defined by strong opinions and a willingness to see them through, often with a healthy dash of societal failures and trauma as a catalyst.

The fentons, while not active even on the online message boards, are well known and explosive when they do show up, full of fascinating insights and hours long rants on mad science on hair pin turns courtesy of that ADHD attention span. Bit of the cryptids you feel honored to bump into kind of deal. Besides, like a good quarter of the community as it aged, they’d settled down and had kids (not necessarily in that order) and taken it very seriously! Out in the middle of nowhere, where even the most fearsome government outpost members, the local branch of the IRS, quake before them in fear. Out of the way.

Reveal gone okay-ish, Danny moves to Gotham still to get some air bc now things are Akward and he landed that engineering scholarship which is loads better than any other college would give him with his track record. So- the mysterious Fenton children are finally crawling out of hiding! Everyone is psyched! And roll in to Gotham en masse to witness the fireworks!

Except Danny is Determined To Be Normal. He’s had enough of the throwing himself into harms way shit for a lifetime- he wants to be free to peacefully built Rube Goldberg machines and unintentional increasingly complex bombs to his hearts content. JAZZ, on the other hand- the coveted token Normal One, has finally snapped! She’s watched her baby brother she practically raised throw himself into danger over and over and could do nothing, and now that she’s exposed to this whole network of superheroes outside of small town Amnity, some of those uglier emotions are coming out. And boy is she pissed! And can’t afford to show it much while filing the paperwork to have Arkham legally razed to the ground!

See I love this idea of like, niches in superhero society. A villain the heroes know they can plop their kiddo down with for an exciting afternoon brawl while they take care of a particularly grisly case and come back to a few hours later ranting about some new life lesson and a new move they really want to try. A villain who has a functioning moral compass despite their somewhat batshit long term goal and you can contact to fuck with another villains’s plan so they can laugh at them and you can have an easy afternoon. One who pries up hostile architecture and fills in pot holes, idk man. Get creative here, there’s such potential!

So Jazz becomes a Training villain- someone the heroes know their sidekicks will walk away from in a fight 100% of the time, usually with some new lesson to ponder and only a couple of bruises. Sometimes even snacks!

She also absolutely ambushes mentors to check that they’re worth the kiddo, which they appreciate once they get over being jumped in a dark alley by a 7 foot Amazon trained force of nature. They are not used to being on that side of the jumping, it’s a little unnerving.

(Yes, she low key adopts Shazam upon checking in with him on cursory ‘is the main hero of this city and asshole’ checkin. Yes, the super clones get yoinked out from under Superman’s negligent thumb to go have a blast with Ellie. What about it?)

This however only encourages more assorted weirdos to crawl out of the woodwork. It’s not often one of their own forfeits their potential spot for the running of the coveted Most Normal I Swear prize, but when they do it’s bound to be good! But jazz is off hounding various heroes and punching the faces in of pedophiles and shit whenever there’s no cape within easy reach, and so is a mite bit harder to contact than Danny, who has innocently gotten an apprenticeship under a clockworker for access to their workshop and is gleefully going about doing nerdy shit with great abandon.

Plus this is Gotham. No one gives a shit if someone in the Mad Alchemist uniform and still smoking from their latest experiment pokes their head in a window to bother the local shrimp teen- none of the usual social rules apply, everyone’s crazy here! So everyone drops any and all attempts at masking and just acts their genuine unhinged selves, much to the alarm of the Bats and frustration of Danny.

Bc he cannot get these mfers to go. Away. Even liberal use of the creep stick has little effect when the interloper is calibrated for an opponent with super speed or laser vision or whatever, and he’s trying to maintain his guise as a Normal College Student Do No Investigate.

So he calls in the big guns. He’s not super active in the supervillain kids group chat ever since things in amnity calmed the fuck down post becoming King and then immediately using a loophole that says he will not take the throne until he is grown, as defined by finishing learning his trade a la the medieval standards Pariah set up. So he can just take his sweet ass time with his graduate degree and out of inter dimensional bull shit that much longer! Point is, he hasn’t taken the chance to rant over there in a while, so his Crazy friends are getting a lil worried.

The change to come over and shout at their batshit crazy but (mostly) well meaning parent AND see Danny? Score!

The bats, however, are getting awfully suspicious about this one kid that villains from all over the country are flocking to, especially young and upcoming ones as of recently! And he’s acting his engineering course- all the worst rogues are known to have flown through their PhD studies prior to Cracking. They seem to have a real problem on their hands with this Fenton guy.

[communistkenobi]

cannot overstate how much you should not take seriously anyone who thinks IQ is a valid or valuable measure of human beings

[vroom-vrooms]

Max socially awkward, geography nerd, trauma dumping machine Verstappen and Charles loved by everyone on first sight, music nerd, repressed trauma Leclerc should get married or something

[ricksmarlene]

Rick Grimes + shirtless for science

THE WALKING DEAD Seasons 1-9 & THE ONES WHO LIVE Season 1 (2010-2024)

[spiritoast]

rather predictably, i have fallen hopelessly in love with this guy

[frenchiepal]

21.10.24 🍁 first day of my first master's semester! even though one class was cancelled i came back home utterly exhausted but i was overjoyed to finally attend linguistics courses again <3 missed it so much

[mintghostko]

Don and Shelly scribble because I love them :)

chances are Dr. Feeling didn't mean for them to go on a robbery spree but they seem to be having fun so it's probably fine…probably (^^ゞ

[princessjadyn15]

EVERYONE SHUT UP AND LOOK

ITS OUR GIRL MONA LISA

[hyunjinsource]

hyunjin - 'jjam' dance practice

[itsallaboutbl]

😏🤭

[10-porgs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oppenheimer Girlfriend and Barbie Boyfriend

(they’d do the double feature but they each have a clear favorite)

[nenoname]

Details in Stan's letter that still haunt me

(how long will I continue thinking about a two page letter that's technically not even that long because Stan's handwriting is fricking large? .....you don't need to worry about that.)

The bro code only shows up in the Lost Journal pages, and to me Stan's message feels like it purposely echoes Ford's "miss you" in the college photo (and for some reason the message doesn't appear in the website version of the photo?) ....or alternatively Stan simply noticed how distressed Ford was about this entire thing and wanted to support him in a way so he can be sappy but without the kids knowing, or both!

Stan's claim about the Oregon lottery contradicts what the Lost Legends website said about Tate McGucket's ability to predict the winning numbers!! ...but also breaking into the Lottery HQ is definitely a very Stan thing to do and it's not the first time small gags have been retconned

Despite spending most of his letter nonchalantly destroying him, the taunt about ripping a dollar bill in half is the only part where Stan is directly responding to Bill. Maybe it's the two of them having similar ways of thinking but it's rather specific considering Bill taunts the reader about it...

And after Bill spends an entire book calling Ford Sixer despite normally using a pretty wide range of nicknames for him, Stan then spends his letter mainly referring to Ford as Sixer, even though post-Weirdmageddon he tends to use a mix of nicknames. And it's not like he'd gotten to see Bill himself for long, let alone see him steal that childhood nickname (that is only used twice in the actual show btw!). Did Ford tell him what happened or...?

With all this and the website's "still on your mind" message, what I'm getting at is my tinfoil hat theory of Stan somehow seeing some of the pages the irl readers saw, even when it should be personalised to the specific reader, and he's been lying about it for some reason. Considering that the book flat out doesn't make an attempt at convincing Soos, I find it a stretch that whatever Bill was telling Stan via the book was an attempt to convince him either.

Wouldn't be the first time Stan's skimmed through a book and lied about what it meant to him.

(...Now I kinda wanna see a story about the family reading their versions of the book and making fun of it while Stan is improvising every single one of his pages and blatantly ignoring Bill's attempts to mock and taunt him)

But also I'm fascinated by the letters that only showed up on the website (aka the Soos+Wendy+McGucket+Pacifica ones). I'm assuming that Mabel had stuck them on after Stan's letter... but they were basically eaten by the book itself because seeing Stan's letter kick-started Bill's breakdown which takes up the rest of the book