Continuing to some extent a theme from the other day, I wish my textbooks had read like this one.
I have to say, this is the first time I've ever seen the term ménage à trois in a science textbook. It's also used as a surprisingly good analogy, although I wonder how the author would know about what constitutes a "successful" ménage à trois.
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It's going to be a very busy day, in ways that will keep me away from the Internet for most of the day, so you'll need to entertain yourselves. Here's a question for the science-minded:
What's your favorite science textbook of all time?
It could be your favorite book from when you were a student,…
Here is an interesting article from Mashable: In the Future, the Cost of Education will be Zero
In the article, the author Josh makes the following points:
College is expensive and some people can't really afford it.
There is a growing trend in online universities. University of the People is one…
Maybe you have seen some of my posts on basic topics. One of the original ideas I had for creating the "basics" posts was so that I would not need to keep repeatedly explaining what the fundamental physics concepts were for each post. I can only explain the work-energy principle so many times…
I feel as though I'm experiencing an acid flashback to 2011, and I've never in my entire life once tried acid—or any mind-altering substance other than booze.
What am I talking about? Let's take a trip down memory lane, if you will, back to those halcyon days of—oh—five years ago. That was the time…
I would guess that a successful ménage à trois is one that doesn't end in the bitter dissolution of the initiating ménage à deux in a morass of jealousy, anger, fear, and suspicion.
Not that I'd know anything about that.
Dang Tornado!
I'll admit to batting 000 at three attempts in my distant pagan past. Hey, I'll blame the other two for initiating, it sure wasn't my idea after the first failure. I thought the note about how improbable a success would be in the textbook appropriate. I guess I am just one unlucky dendritic cell...
One of my teaching mentors advised me to view the lecture hall like theatre and use stories and imagery to keep the interest of my bored pharmacy, medical, and nursing students. As a fellow Bowie fan, I love to use musical references in my teaching - in fact, you could expand this post to discuss how sex, drugs, and rock n roll could be used most effectively in health professions education. Anyway, I used the case of Sex Pistols bass player Sid Vicious to explain opiate receptor tolerance (and his death from heroin overdose after opioid-free imprisonment on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend) and had the story and my pharm hypothesis published in a peer-reviewed but very low-impact educational journal. If I can get my students to remember anything, I'll use almost any method that gets through to them.
Keep up the great writing, doc!
I once tutored my non-chem major friends in chemistry. When they couldn't understand amphoterism, I explained that it's like bisexuallity. Amphoteric substances can act as acids or bases. In the 30 years since, they still remember that, even if they forgot all the rest.
There's such a logical disconnect there that one can only but think that the author must be revealing some personal issues as much as anything else.
I don't mind if you send me text concern Theory of Sexual Imaginery. Please.
I don't mind if you send me text concern Theory of Sexual Imaginery. Please.