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by Professor Science
Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: Best ways to self-educate?
Replies: 23
Views: 8220

my mom was the primary academic adviser for the bio-chemistry department at University of Iowa. She saw a lot of graduates from community colleges. It's not impossible to become competent at those institutions, but you really have to work at it, you gotta want it.
by Professor Science
Sun Jan 30, 2011 5:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Best ways to self-educate?
Replies: 23
Views: 8220

It would also be preferred if the work was based on the real world(stuff like PID loops you would actually end up doing) That sentiment has gotten me a pondering. The definition of "real world applicability" is somewhat transient, isn't it? many engineering practices done in the 920's, 960's and 98...
by Professor Science
Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:07 am
Forum: General
Topic: Best ways to self-educate?
Replies: 23
Views: 8220

Helius wrote: Absolutely. This is only the beginning. This clearly indicates what the future of education *should* be.
I would like to emphasize that I use it to augment, I think engaging faculty is a valuable resource. One of the perks of the physics department as university of Iowa.
by Professor Science
Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:01 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Best ways to self-educate?
Replies: 23
Views: 8220

I've found khan academy very useful, even as a review. I've been going the calculus module, and now that i'm taking my differential equations course i'm using it to augment the lectures, as it has a robust section on that too.

http://www.khanacademy.org/
by Professor Science
Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:29 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Where Nixon got the idea that Burglary was Okay.
Replies: 5
Views: 2280

If you use causal chains like (namely removing the choice from Nixon) you could very easily select who to blame for everything, Republicans can avoid being blamed for anything bad ever again! hoorah! They're kind of like God! He does everything good and everything bad is satans (the democrats) fault...
by Professor Science
Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:28 am
Forum: News
Topic: Lawaranceville E-Newsletter
Replies: 880
Views: 527262

From what i gather the "steady state" feature of EMC2's approach is that while on our time scales, the miliseconds of operation is definitely a pulse, but for a nucleus flying at thousands of electron volts of kinetic energy, miliseconds is a very long time. The multiple time scales of plasmas is im...
by Professor Science
Wed Dec 08, 2010 9:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Florida lab to pursue Bussard Polywell and IEC fusion resear
Replies: 55
Views: 15532

...that and a total lack of any new information. Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: ... a total lack of any actual information. So there is no new information in the last few months? What is the tentative schedule for results/reviews/reveals? was the research schedule reaffirmed in ...
by Professor Science
Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:13 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Somewhat interesting find ...
Replies: 7
Views: 3934

very tenuous connection, one of the new first year grad students here at U of iowa got her EE degree at UNM, could see if she recognizes him.
by Professor Science
Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:17 pm
Forum: News
Topic: NIF crunch time.
Replies: 13
Views: 5586

Why use a fuel pellet that might actually ignite, when you can dick the taxpayer around for years still, insuring you have a highly paying job and pretending you're trying to solve a real world problem? Seriously, that kind of attitude is ridiculously deluded and counter productive. Conspiracies do...
by Professor Science
Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:43 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Peak oil conspiracy spreads to compromised military
Replies: 30
Views: 18962

Before the discussion progresses much further, I would like to explicitly state my initial post was a direct application of Poes Law, and that no one called me out usage of the tone implied with words like liberal conspiracy and penetrate speaks to the atmosphere in the overall forum.
by Professor Science
Sat Sep 11, 2010 6:06 am
Forum: News
Topic: Peak oil conspiracy spreads to compromised military
Replies: 30
Views: 18962

Peak oil conspiracy spreads to compromised military

It seems the liberal conspiracy of peak oil has penetrated to German and US militaries. Thoughts on this blatan doom crying?
by Professor Science
Sun May 30, 2010 7:38 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Darwinian spacecraft engine to last twice as long
Replies: 11
Views: 4555

Concerning cell phones, I saw on a NOVA documentary that most cell phones incorporate fractal antennae these days. (also, that article is much more elaborate than the one I saw in science all those moons ago.)
by Professor Science
Thu May 27, 2010 5:16 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Darwinian spacecraft engine to last twice as long
Replies: 11
Views: 4555

and a fully functional set of physical laws. We've got some good first order approximations at the present.

I remember one case GA's were used was coming up with a better antennae and the computer popped out what looked to be a 5 years old squiggly line. But it was a very explicit squiggly line.
by Professor Science
Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Einstein-Cartan-Evans unified field theory
Replies: 15
Views: 9747

Apologies jlumartinez, I was coming down from a bad week as far as chemistry is concerned. toiling in vain during the week on an anlytical assignment that i'm caring less and less about instead of preparing for an E&M exam i had friday was making me very cranky and I unloaded on you. It was not very...
by Professor Science
Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:35 am
Forum: General
Topic: Einstein-Cartan-Evans unified field theory
Replies: 15
Views: 9747

How can you say the mathetmatics seem sound when the article is only 9 pages long and 90+% of it is text? I'm not evening reading this right now.