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  1. paws4thot says:

    “Fit one o’ ye wood nae gi’ it a’ fur a sekond chans tae cum heer an sae “Ye mae tak oor guns, but ye wull neivir taek oor freedum!!”?

  2. Kn0wledge1ne says:

    Well, I can tell this is going to be a horrible day for Pk…

    Oh yeah. Third.

    • Justacarolinian says:

      The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.

      In the past few years, the playing field of American intellectual life has shifted, and the traditional intellectual has become increasingly marginalized. A 1950s education in Freud, Marx, and modernism is not a sufficient qualification for a thinking person in the 1990s. Indeed, the traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time. Their culture, which dismisses science, is often nonempirical. It uses its own jargon and washes its own laundry. It is chiefly characterized by comment on comments, the swelling spiral of commentary eventually reaching the point where the real world gets lost.

      • viking gal says:

        Sadly often true in my experience. I can understand being not deeply educated in science, math and technology, because no person can be deeply educated in all things. But I am truly distressed to find that some of my colleagues are ‘proudly’ anti-science and/or mathematics.

        • dissimilitude says:

          One thing I like about science and math — no worries about deconstructionism or post-modernism or subaltern perspectives.

          • dissimilitude says:

            Sorry, when I said “science”, I should have specified the non-social sciences, as in physics, biology, chemistry, geology….

            • mabsba says:

              Psst… those of us in math and the ‘real’ sciences call them other sciences ‘soft sciences.’
              Actually, you CAN have a lot of rigor in the soft sciences, it’s just that they allow a lot of non-rigorous work because so many things can’t be rigorously tested due to having those pesky humans involved. Scientific American had a nice article about a year ago about pop psychology and its lack of scientific rigor.

              • viking gal says:

                I can’t decide if the social sciences are the squishy sciences, given their soft-ness, or if Biology should be the ‘squishy’ science…for more basic reasons. Opinions?

        • charro says:

          I’m anti math. I’m terrible at it. Hrmpth.

          Though, to get my Chemistry degree I have to learn something called “Vector Calculus”.

          Down with math!

          • Cynical-Vegemite says:

            But maths is awesome, I like things like the Golden Ratio and by extension the Fibonacci Sequence and how it appears in almost everything we see in nature.

            What I don’t get is how these ‘intellectuals’ can call themselves intellectual, the very definition of intellect is “the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel or to will”. ‘Intellectuals’ don’t know sh*t therefore they don’t deserve the term :(

            I think in order to be earn the term intellectual in todays society one must show a depth of knowledge that encompasses all subjects enough to be able to argue both for and against a point made in any given subject.

            Not too hard is it? :D

            • Wino says:

              I fully agree. The problems is that anyone earning a college degree these days thinks that they are an intellectual. They may be able to earn this ‘qualification’, but it waters down the meaning of the term intellectual.

              PS: I am all knowing ;)

            • oɹɹɐɥɔ says:

              I’m sorry, and I know what you’re saying, but I really am terrible at math. I always have been. It confuses me and frustrates me and I have failed many math classes in my life.

              In the fortunate times that I have had a good teacher or tutor I can “get” enough of it to pass the tests, but it never really sticks. I’ve taken pre-algebra countless times and regular algebra twice. I took a “Quantitative Literacy” course, which I managed a “B” in, but I have yet to tackle anything really on the college level.

              The most frustrating thing is when I finally think I “get” it, I usually find out that no I don’t, I don’t understand it at all. It upsets me and I find it hard to want to continue at all. I want my Chem degree very badly, but I know that this means years of frustrating “F” or “D” grades that will bring down my GPA and upset my self-esteem.

              I plan to get my Psych degree first so I can begin working in the field that I eventually want to be in while I very slowly work towards my Chem degree. But I get all tingly with dread every time I think about the sheer amount of math I need to slog through to get there.

              So, I mean, really. That’s great that you guys all love math and are good at it, but I’m not. So I don’t like the subject.

              • mabsba says:

                Aw. *hugs Charro* Algebra = arithmetic with letters. I understand your frustration, though. I taught many returning students whose biggest hindrance to entering university was math. If someone who dropped out of school in 6th grade can do it, I think you can. :)

                • oɹɹɐɥɔ says:

                  ALGEBRA HAS IMAGINARY NUMBERS! IMAGINARY! I cried when I found that out! As if the numbers and letters weren’t bad enough, they had to MAKE UP NUMBERS! Then, there’s all those weird cosigns and other stuff that I don’t get… AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *hyperventilates*

              • dissimilitude says:

                C, I don’t remotely want to discourage you, but if you don’t like math, Chem seems an odd choice of majors. For my undergrad, in addition to classes in my major, I had to do 2 semesters each of chemistry and physics, and physics I swear had less math!

                • oɹɹɐɥɔ says:

                  Yeah, it does. I know. I had to take a “hard science” for my ever useful Philosophy degree and I chose Chem. I loved it, despite my math handicap.

                  I want to go into research. I want to research drugs. The combination of Psychology/Chemistry I feel will advance me in that pursuit; with what I want to do in research. Also, it furthers some of my ulterior motives..

          • clueless says:

            Have you seen the TV series called Numbers? It is FBI/action/mathematical story. You might want to start with Season 1 on netflicks. It might help you get in a good frame of mind for your Vector Calculus

          • mabsba says:

            *cries* Charro hates me!

            • viking gal says:

              I didn’t to terribly well in linear algebra, so I kept taking courses until I got an ‘A’. The last of which was modern algebra AKA how many dimensions can we solve a problem in, using vectors? The teacher was AWESOME!

              • mabsba says:

                Awesomeness of teachers definitely correlates to interestingness of subject. Oh, poop. The better the teacher, the more interesting the subject. My son didn’t like history at all until he went to his current school, where they have AWESOME history teachers.

              • In high school I took all the way up to AP Calculus. After taking a college calc class my freshman year of college, I never took another math class. Now I can barely add two digit numbers together. Somewhere along the line I lost my confidence in my ability to do math well.

            • oɹɹɐɥɔ says:

              I don’t hate you.. just math. It hurts mah brane.

  3. MattW says:

    Get on with it! YEAH!!! GET ON WITH IT!!!!

  4. mothergoose says:

    *Can’t even come up with another comment to express her disappointment in the lack of LOL that has been happening recently…

    *Gives up and goes back to work.

  5. bodo says:

    …looks more like the Samba to me.

    Personally I prefer the Bunny Hop.

    • n10bettes says:

      *Public Service Announcement*
      Bunny Hop with automatic weapons could be dangerous to your health.

      • dissimilitude says:

        OK, I read that and immediately started thinking:

        (Bunny-hop tune) Dah-dadadada, dah-dada, Dah-dadadada, *bang, bang, bang* Uh-oh….

  6. You know, there ARE funny LOLs out there. They’re few and far between, but they’re out there. So why are we getting this sh!t?


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