GS Arnold
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GS Arnold
@arnoldscience
Science and History Teacher in a public magnet high school.
TN Sumali Eylül 2011
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I confess that I do not have PhDs, so this probably hits different. But the whole humanities kid vs stem kid thing is way overblown and doofy. I have degrees chem and history, teach at a stem school and have kids that plan on majoring in art and music in my organic and AP classes
A.V. Marraccini@saintsoftness
My mom was trained in math. She taught me set theory as a kid for fun! I got a humanities PhD, and one of the best teaching moments of last year for me was finally having an applied math kid understand Plato because I could explain using propositional logic. End the Two Cultures!
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I also wonder if there are more nerds of my generation who aren’t conflicted about the popularization of all of that (including comics, etc).
I don’t mean in a whiny, this is my secret knowledge way, but in that stories that meant so much are now just more in the bucket…
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Teaching is very different this year. I wish I could expound without folks reading more into it. But if you’d have asked me 5 years ago how I felt about people leaving the profession, I’d have said “never me”. I still think that, but the volume is lower and surety wavers.
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I in general agree with it, though I feel this way about William Gibson as well. Amazing ideas, great story, conclusion of a show cancelled with one season to go.
To be clear, I love everything these guys write.
neural oscillator of uncertain significance@mycoliza
neal stephenson’s books don’t have endings, they just sort of run out of book
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This thread is awesome, and I love most of these authors.
caesararum, BS, DOGS@caesararum
Describe famous scifi authors uncharitably; I'll start Asimov was barely an author in the ways we usually think of them; he was more of a creator of logic puzzles. Annoying stuff like "characterization" and "setting" were just speedbumps he had to surpass to write what he wanted
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