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So you see how the average could be higher? You're predicting the patterns then, good, I can start mumbling now.
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Professor Willie Melton, Social Psychology
Michigan Technological University, Houghton,
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submitted: February 1, 2004 |
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When we hear this, (plays I, V, I) we think "She played a cadence; we can go home now."
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Dr. Gwen Rollin, Theory 1
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
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submitted: February 1, 2004 |
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Chocolate cake with fruit filling is the worst! It’s an abomination! Why not have baby filling?
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Alex John London, Philosophy Pro-Seminar
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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submitted: February 2, 2004 |
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Shannon: Well, I talked to this woman back home that got licensed on-line.
Dakota: On-line?? How do you do that? Online... Massage that mouse!
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Dakota Walker, Professional Development III
Arizona School of Massage Therapy, Tempe, AZ
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submitted: February 2, 2004 |
Paraphrased, but more or less what was said. How DO you get licensed as a Massage Therapist on-line?
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Two, Three, Five, Eight, who do we appreciate... Fibonacci!
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Arthur Benjamin, Discrete Math
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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submitted: February 3, 2004 |
The class joined in on the Fibbonacci, after half a second of the prof pausing to see whether they would :-).
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It does exactly what a suspension's supposed to do... it just sounds like crap.
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Dr. Noel Painter, Counterpoint, MC 371
Stetson University, DeLand, FL
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submitted: February 4, 2004 |
Criticizing an error in 16th century counterpoint writing.
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It's sad when a pair of eighth notes becomes a joke in a class... we've sunk a long way.
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Dr. Noel Painter, Counterpoint, MC371
Stetson University, DeLand, FL
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submitted: February 4, 2004 |
On a cliche 16th century cadence that gets knowing chuckles every time he plays it.
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(Discussing the logic of accepting beliefs with or without sufficient evidence.)
Professor: To suicide bombers it makes sense that they're going to go to heaven and get like, nine wives...
Student: Seventy -two.
Professor: Seventy-two? *walks towards the door* See you guys later.
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Eric Lindland, Informal Logic
Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus, Columbus, Indiana
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submitted: February 5, 2004 |
Not an exact quote, but this is the gist of what happened.
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"I can't prove this but I played squash with somebody who can"
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Joe Halpern, Discrete Structures
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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submitted: February 5, 2004 |
Discussing Fermat’s Last Theorem
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"Let's remember that Britain is the home of the sensational papers that claim Hugh Grant was found having sex with turkeys..."
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Dr. P. Voisey, Hist 467
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
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submitted: February 5, 2004 |
a close approximation
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"And that [that being the way in which protiens fold into 3 dimensional structures] is the greatest miracle you'll ever witness...until you hold your first child."
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Jan Serie, Cell Biology
Macalester College, St Paul, MN
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submitted: February 5, 2004 |
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My Master's thesis was on orphan detection and elimination.
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Thu Nguyen, Operating Systems
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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submitted: February 5, 2004 |
Said during a lecture on processes
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y girls didn't get any candy... the investigations are going.
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Arthur Benjamin, Discrete Math
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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submitted: February 5, 2004 |
A combinatorics problem involving a group of boys and a group of girls being handed out n candies. He seems to be on a roll with the amusing quotes this week.
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I enjoyed watching mild mannered british secretaries come down for tea and shooting people
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Thad Starner, Intro to Intelligent Systems
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
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submitted: February 5, 2004 |
talking about his augmented reality project that included putting the user in DooM
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I'm not above dropping hints... Or hitting people in the head with sledgehammers
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Thad Starner, Intro to Intelligent Systems
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
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submitted: February 5, 2004 |
I think he was talking about undergrad research under himself
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As old Hillel would say: All the Torah on one foot: Voltage dependent Sodium chanels.
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Prof. Yossi Yarom, Neurobiology Lab.
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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submitted: February 5, 2004 |
The first part is really a quote from the Talmud.
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One thing they never tell you is you lose 30 I.Q. points when you stand in front of a whiteboard.
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Thad Starner, Intro to Intelligent Systems
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
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submitted: February 5, 2004 |
Thad had just mixed up a few logical operaters on the board
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I think we cam summarize this whole part in 3 words: Pain is a bad thing.
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Prof. Yehuda (Udi) Shavit, Psycholoneuroimmunology and stress states
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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submitted: February 5, 2004 |
About a pretty massive part in his power point display. Well, he probably doesn't know to count, but we don't expect much from psychologists...
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"...a talking Freudian psychoanalysis tricorder."
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Dr. Brady, Advanced Logic 453
Stetson University, DeLand, FL
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submitted: February 6, 2004 |
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"But, we'll go into excessive detail on that later."
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Dr. Peppers-Bates, Philosophy of Religion
Stetson University, DeLand, FL
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submitted: February 6, 2004 |
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"This argument is like Bacardi 151: it goes down smoothly, but it's going to hit you later."
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Dr. Bates, Issues in Religious Thought
Stetson University, DeLand, FL
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submitted: February 6, 2004 |
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The exit code is useful when you want to know if your child grew up and had a good life or it got run over by a truck or something.
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Thu Nguyen, Operating Systems
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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submitted: February 7, 2004 |
Lecturing on the fork() and wait() system calls
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And the conclusion from that is: When you get to New York - Go party!
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Prof. Yossi Yarom, General topics in neurobiology
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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submitted: February 7, 2004 |
About synchronizing the circadian rhythm.
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Hey, you all, look! I'm SO gifted!
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Prof. Eilon Vaadia, Human Physiology
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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submitted: February 7, 2004 |
While holding a chair in the air, demonstrating muscle activity...
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This little gerbil, sitting inside the head of the big gerbil, knows these cells since the day he was born...
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Dr. Eli Nelken, General topics in neurobiology
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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submitted: February 8, 2004 |
A gerbil is a little nice rodent. This was said while explaining how it is processing auditory information.
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