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@void-king-of-swingttv correct!

The chemical reaction is a type of exothermic reaction called a hatsunetsu (はつねつ), which is Japanese for "generation of heat".

The bright teal precipitate belongs to a class of chemicals called Volatile Alkaloids, or "Volkaloids".

Stolen from reddit where it wasn't being properly appreciated

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@naresar that is a perfect answer. 💯

was reminded of that youtube channel that records footage of that bridge that scalps trucks today. one of the fascinating developments that's happened since i last heard about it is that, in one of their many attempts to stop the trucks from being can-opened, they installed a traffic light that detects when a vehicle that's over the allowed height is coming and turns red so the driver can stop and hopefully notice the signage all around that's screaming "YOUR VEHICLE IS OVERHEIGHT TURN AROUND" and avoid an accident. However as a result sometimes drivers see the light turning yellow and IMMEDIATELY start flooring it to avoid having to stop, ensuring that the roof of their truck just gets fucking annihilated instantly. Really beautiful stuff you should check it out

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Maybe you hold a school-wide tournament and the winning text gets sent to the high school (or a local art college) to get cast in clay!

Nee cuneiform. Every country should pay a guy to make clay tablet copies of important books and documents in a version of cuneiform based on whatever alphabet the country uses

I think we should start doing more monumental inscriptions just to give future historians a better chance for translating our stuff in case this whole digital thing doesn't work out

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@anyawen the fact that you reblogged this with the tag #collage quatrain, which is a term I made up out of whole cloth, makes me very happy.

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves A stately pleasure-dome decreed. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

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I'll give you 7/10 for the excellent reasoning and explanation of the chemical processes.

I don't begrudge you for not grabbing a ruler or opening the image in an editor with a measuring tool, but that still means you didn't complete the assignment.

my sister hath sent me. Canned Cheese.

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I wish I could take this message far, there are people who really need to hear it.

In regards to the "don't let your self worth get involved in grades", I did want to mention that as a student it always felt really dismissive when someone implied I was concerned about grades out of ego. While I was proud of them, 90% of my anxiety about getting a bad grade was terror about my future. I always heard teachers and administration tell me that my future, my livelihood, my chances of living a *good life* required I do well in school. A bad grade felt like a threat to my life, not an insult.

I acknowledge this is a wildly unhealthy view as well, but I mention it because at that point in my life, a poster boiling down that terror to being prideful would probably have wrecked any respect I had for the teacher that put it up. Getting too emotionally involved in your work isn't good to do, obviously, but there are a lot more reasons a student might panic over low marks.

(I really hope this doesn't come across as disrespectful at all, your work is amazing! I just immediately felt a very old fear when I put myself in the scenario you suggested)

Grading is one of the most fucked parts of school, at least in 21st century America. There is no real consistency between the grades given out by any two teachers, regardless of grade or subject for school. A good teacher will at least to give you a sense of how they grade to their students, but most teachers will just do whatever they want.

There are a lot of reasons behind this. If anyone is interested enough, then I can go into detail about as many of the reasons. I have observed and read a lot about grading. It quickly became a special interest of mine once I started teaching. Probably, it tapped into the game design wolf inside me.

For now, suffice it to say that grading is much more subjective than objective. Imagine two students write a constructed response of more-or-less equivalent quality. One comes from a student who sits up front and pays attention and stays present in your class. The other comes from a student who always seems half asleep (when they're not totally asleep). You as a teacher will naturally be inclined to give more credit to the former, because you believe that they did a better job. It takes conscious effort to grade fairly and equally. But even then, sometimes you should be grading equitably instead, because you recognize that a kid whose family is going through a lot (maybe their father died, maybe they have 6 siblings and have a lot of care-giving responsibilities for a 13 year old), you give a higher grade for lower-quality work, so long as they demonstrate understanding and you don't want to be discouraging.

So.

To properly respond to your ask.

If I were still teaching, and I had all of my other responsibilities figured out, then I would make an effort to get to know what kind of learner you are, what you want out of school. And I would be sure to grade you fairly because I would want to challenge you. You need earnest, honest feedback. Some students want Candy Land and others want Dark Souls. I would respect you.

But I would also make sure you kept your perspectives straight. Grades are just numbers. So is weight. And income. It's bad to let that become part of your soul.

PS: I saw your ask on Friday, but by then I had already written all of this up. Don't worry, I read this more as candid than rude or impolite. And I appreciate that you feel you can be candid with me.

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Thank you so much for reblogging this, @gravywheels , because I lost this post and I still need to make a lesson out of it

Btw, have you read the very long reply by the asker?

A few years ago, I got briefly obsessed with (and had a Tumblr post break containment about) the then-ongoing downfall of Cornell marketing professor Brian Wansink, an influential food psychology researcher who turned out to have been doing scientific fraud on a massive scale. This ranged from having grad students record every random thing they possibly could about a study and then slicing and dicing the data until they found a correlation between two random things that met a statistical significance threshold and only reporting that, to impossible data, to copy-pasting thousands of words between allegedly unrelated papers, to extremely basic arithmetic errors like sample sizes that don't add up. The scientists who exposed him dissected several dozen of his papers, but he's published over 200, and pretty much all of them seem to be like this. I've thought ever since that it would make a great school activity to bring in a stack of random Wansink papers and challenge the class to see how many problems they can find.

Oh, I've heard about this guy! I think they talked about him on an episode of Freakonomics, or else somewhere on NPR.

Academic dishonesty, especially regarding scientific publications, it's something very near and dear to my heart. And the fact that this guy produced so many in easy, delightful, daytime talk show style. Scientific headlines means that I think I know the angle I would want to take with this just because somebody says that something is science, doesn't mean it is. It's not a matter of you. Can't trust the mainstream media, it's a matter of people need scientific literacy in order to be trustworthy when reporting science.

But the reason why I'm responding to this ask instead of just making a lesson plan, Which I do intend to do, is that I never ever actually took any classes on scientific methodology. All I know about p-values I learned from Khan Academy and Wikipedia.

So do you think we could collaborate?

If I draft up a lesson, could you proofread it for me to make sure that it's got all the information that you would like to see students learn?

And if anyone else knows any way they can help, please leave a comment or DM me. I'll be grateful to gain a better matter of this topic.

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This feels downright cute.

Here are some highlights from the Wikipedia page on the word Buggar:

The term was originally used to justify the Albigensian Crusade in southern France in the 13th century. After pope Innocent III authorized a French land grab that massacred 20,000 people, the Pope justified it by saying these people were heretics who engaged in unorthodox sexual practices. And since the Bogomils of Bulgaria had also been accused of that same thing recently, the Pope just had to say "these men, women, and children that we murdered were all buggers."

It seems like it's always been a very mild version of fuck.

The word is often used as a reference to male-male sex. But it's also used to describe being exhausted. It can also refer to children. It's a very versatile word.

In this latter form it found fame in New Zealand in 1956 through rugby player Peter Jones, who-in a live post-match radio interview-declared himself "absolutely buggered'", a turn of phrase considered shocking at the time.

"Little buggers" means children, a term so familiar in the United Kingdom that there is a series of professional teaching manuals with titles that start "Getting the buggers to ..."

The best notes written in manuscripts by medieval monks

Colophon: a statement at the end of a book containing the scribe or owner’s name, date of completion, or bitching about how hard it is to write a book in the dark ages

Oh, my hand

The parchment is very hairy

Thank God it will soon be dark

St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing

Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink

Oh d fuckin abbot

Massive hangover

Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job

Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night

If someone else would like such a handsome book, come and look me up in Paris, across from the Notre Dame cathedral

I shall remember, O Christ, that I am writing of Thee, because I am wrecked today

Do not reproach me concerning the letters, the ink is bad and the parchment scanty and the day is dark

11 golden letters, 8 shilling each; 700 letters with double shafts, 7 shilling for each hundred; and 35 quires of text, each 16 leaves, at 3 shilling each. For such an amount I won’t write again

Here ends the second part of the title work of Brother Thomas Aquinas of the Dominican Order; very long, very verbose; and very tedious for the scribe; thank God, thank God, and again thank God

If anyone take away this book, let him die the death, let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen

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I think he heard you

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#like seriously don't go using generative ai as a joke or trying it out of fun

#it's harmful

#artists generally will accept oc refs from a bunch of different sources too #you like this scarf from character a and the hair style from character b?

#no problem!

#go support human artists especially with generative ai being pushed freaking everywhere #im so sick of genAl crap but i'm glad people are using meiker and the like #also yikes about the state of ads on picrew #this is why ad blockers rule

Awesome to get this kind of perspective, thank you!

“but AI art lets me create my OCs!” YOU WILL USE PICREW AS GOD INTENDED

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This is Anders, the most generic cat I have ever met. He does regular cat things and isn't special in any way.

I showed him your picture of Eowyn and he seemed interested.

We got him around the time Dragon Age 2 came out, shortly after seeing this video

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@graylibrary

#yeah also one thing about this time period in particular was that people actually did travel A LOT actually

#just not ALL people #the time period determines a little of who exactly is mostly likely to be going far but 1. the rich and 2. merchants/ their employees 3.

#certain kinds of criminals

#are a good bet in most time periods for getting around more than you'd expect

#but notable people in the later 1800s and early 1900s were particularly likely to have had decent travel histories mean Francisco de Miranda is earlier even and he was all over

#unto that potential affair with Catherine

Notable NPCs.

Consider:

Victorian England: 1837-1901

American Old West: 1803-1912

Meiji Restoration: 1868-1912

French privateering in the Gulf of Mexico: ended circa 1830

Conclusion: an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible.

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@ihavenoideahowtodream

#something else

#woke up to the sound of epwyn snapping her jaws closed yesterday morning

#couldnt see her didnt uear the yawn i was 87% still asleep anyway

#*hazy blur of the sun through my eyelids SNAP *warm feeling shes still in bed with me :) she didnt leave me for the pile of dirty laundry*

#also she has started purring so loud she makes herself hiccup

What's the most biggest-eyed gif I can find?

Let's see...

....

Here we go!

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#yes

#we remember more when we use ryhmes

#saying rhymes likes singing in a choir helps feel unified with others around us

#l've only found those things in church as a kid

#i cant find anything even close to that as an adult

#but like. I know stlagmites are on the floor cause stalagTIGHTS hang tight to the ceiling

#or prepositions are anything a bunny can do to a log

#i can chant my being verbs like a witch at a cauldron

#1 know its good they changed it but ill never say the alphabet without eleminopee and "now ive said my abcs next time wont you sing w me"

#i dont remember learning these things but they are a part of me

#yes cheer should be thaught and destigmatized

#cause cheeeleaders are fuckin athlets

#i dont see josh allen at the top of one of those pyramids

#i do see kelsay from ap calculus tho

As someone who learned the Hebrew alphabet shortly after the English alphabet, and then the German alphabet 6 years later, all with mnemonic chants, I agree that chanting helps with memory.

This is also how I learned all the counties in New Jersey, the "helper verbs" (is, be, am, are, was, were, been, has, have, had, do, does, did, may, might, can, could, shall, should, will, would, must), and the first 150 Pokemon (Electrode, Diglett, Nidoran, Mankey, etc).

None of that knowledge has ever really helped me in real life though.

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These are very good points. I have no idea what (it any) structures are in place to make Phys Ed something actually beneficial, especially when it's so easy for it to slide into any of the situations you describe.

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I can't be mad at these results. Mrrrow is a very good nose

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