Simplifying the complex and complexifying the rest: Ravings on physics, politics, education, motoring, and the Harvard comma.
I've noticed that I am not the only academic blogger whose activity level has dropped over the past week. Must be something in the water, or could it be the start of the semester? For me, it has been making adjustments to a new text while also coordinating a second section of my main course ... which required that all sorts of things be done by last week that I could normally do during the semester.
But I did need to post one thing today:
A very Happy Birthday to The Thomas.
Posted by Doctor Pion at 22:44
Dr. Pion is a pseudonym for a physicist whose research once included study of the pi meson. His expertise also includes the history of nuclear weapons and proliferation, but his main interest today is teaching "physics for scientists and engineers". He uses the pseudonym CCPhysicist when commenting in certain blogs because he teaches at a community college.
There is no connection at all between this blog and the real people (a veterinarian and a physician) known as Dr. Pion who show up in a Google search on this name.
2 comments:
Yeah, we all seem to be swamped. It is amazing that students and administrators don't realized just how busy faculty are the week or so before the semester begins and the week or two after the semester starts.
They also don't realize that faculty are looking forward to the Labor Day holiday more than the students are!
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