….Anyways, you can blame Spiderman for me standing here
Dr. Dale E Henneke
Monthly Archives: October 2010
There are two types in the world – there’s the dog lovers and the cat lovers, the bosons and the fermions.
Dr. Laura Deakin
Those tricky electrons
Student: Does that mean it’s in both places at once?
Dr. Deakin: Yes!
Dr. Deakin: It’s not going anywhere, it IS.
*crickets*
Dr. Deakin: I told you this week would be mind blowing.
shirley temple writing in her room
I adored Shirley Temple as a child. She was kind of my idol. The last few days I have been thinking back on childhood memories and realizing how much the things I liked then impacted my world view, and the effect they continue to have.
I also think it was girls like Shirley Temple and the fictional character Sara Crewe that made me want curls so badly.
I like to think of electrons like people with multiple personality disorders…they’re extremely unstable individuals.
Dr. Laura Deakin
Well, you’re studying to be engineers, so it’s good to know that some of you know how to use tools.
Dr. Dale E. Henneke
People in some countries are still stoned to death – and not in the good way!
Dr. Dale E Henneke
Not only does the solution get hairy and increasingly bad, but there is no solution! There are people at this very universtiy who are trying to get the closest shortcut to this non-solution.
Dr. Laura Deakin
We fill them [s electron orbitals] first cause they’re lower and remove them first cause they’re higher. Does that make sense? Yes, of course it does.
Dr. Laura Deakin