Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)

A painting of a bird beside the text "i always wondered what would happen if we put a total fuckin' moron in charge"

Bookmark: How to Learn. This book was written so that you might learn. In order to learn from it, however, you must know how to use it properly. The book will teach you little unless you put organized effort into reading it, for active, directed work is necessary if you wish to understand and remember what you read. Careful, intelligent reading of this book will mean that you understand better what you learn in class. What is equally important, if you have studied this book properly in the first place, it will serve as a convenient and quick refresher for future reference. Nearly everyone knows that we easily forget what we learn when we do not use it. What many students do not realize, however, is that we can relearn what we have once learned, providing we have learned it well in the first place. Thus, this book provides a convenient auxiliary memory that can serve you all of your life. In order to understand and remember the contents of this book it is essential that you do more than read. It means that you must actively recite, question, and review the material you have read. See the reverse of this card for suggestions that will help you to study this book. By following these suggestions, you will find the book will be more valuable to you both the course in which it is assigned and as a part of your permanent library.

BOOKMARK How to Get the Most Out of a Book 1. Skim through the assigned reading so that you will know what it is you are to study. 2. Read the text carefully. Do not forget that many important ideas are presented in graphs, diagrams or maps. 3. As you read, stop now and then and recite to yourself, in your own words, the important ideas in what you have just read. 4. Make brief notes in the margin. These will serve as cues for subsequent self-recitation. 5. Mark important or key passages for later review. 6. Review the material at least once between the first time you study the assignment and study for exams. Make use of your marginal notes as cues for self-recitation. 7. Remember that a little relearning is necessary each time you wish to use what you have learned for an examination, a related course, or for independent study. If you use the author's headings, marked passages, and brief notes for cues it will help you relearn easily. 8. Coordinate what you read with what you learn in the classroom. Keep well-organized lecture notes. Lecture notes that are legible and accurate will, like your text-book, serve in the years to come as quick and inexpensive keys to the knowledge that you are acquiring. JAMES E. DEESE Associate Professor of Psychology The Johns Hopkins University Author of THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING

Yesterday, I was reading a used book from 1959 I bought some years ago, and I found this bookmark, which must have been there when I bought the book.

Given the age of the book and Deese at Johns Hopkins, the bookmark would be from the 1960s. Useful advice to students even now.

#TimeCapsule

This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.

China just had their warmest winter on record. 🔥🔥🔥

Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE!
On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules.
Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel.
If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

All lined up…

Cover van Time magazine uit 2006 met Person of the Year over the titel van het blad en daarop een oude iMac met een oude YouTube videospeler met daarin het woord "You." Eronder staat de tekst. Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.

AI: Hold my beer.

V. interesting
Advait Palival the dipshit desi techbro behind Einstein AI has changed the text on his website (what is in the post Im quoting below is what it looked like a day ago), after giving a very defensive interview to Futurism.
The truth is AI bros do not care what harm they cause.

Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com

9,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…

The dispute stems from Anthropic’s refusal to allow its AI model, Claude, to be used for two specific purposes: mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapon systems. Hegseth wants the Pentagon to have the ability to monitor American citizens en masse while employing lethal tactics that operate with zero human oversight.

It's literally like the plot of an 80's B-movie

This is the biggest act of cultural and political vandalism in the UK in recent history. It will lead to unprecedented damage. Unnecessarily but ideologically committed against one of the few sectors in which UK remained world leading. Labour have deliberately allowed this to happen.

Top earners increase at Russell Group universities despite cuts About 9,400 staff paid at least £100,000 a year across research-intensive institutions, analysis of financial accounts shows

'Roughly a third of the group’s members posted deficits last year. The University of Nottingham, which recorded a loss of over £85 million, increased its number of top earners significantly from 207 to 294. And there were 185 at the cash-strapped Cardiff University.'

Ask and ye shall receive

So this not only will enable students to cheat... it could also build a database of course lectures, potentially taking a professor's words, thoughts, voice, image and likeness for free. Some ed tech could pool enough course lectures together to create and sell AI-generated e-learning

Map of CoCoRaHS 24-hour snowfall observations on the morning of February 23, 2026, around New Jersey/NY/CT. It shows several observations of over 20" of snow.

The same map, highlighting one of the observations on Long Island that says "Gauge is buried under snow drift. Can’t get to it. Average depth of snow 19” "

storms like this are where CoCoRaHS observers really shine. There's truly no other way to get this density, quality, and richness of snowfall data!

Browse yourself at maps.cocorahs.org?maptype=snow...

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An advertisement from https://companion.ai/einstein that has a picture of Albert Einstein and text reading, "Meet Einstein. Einstein is an AI with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically. Get started."

Not sure the real Einstein would be out there cheating for some college kid. He probably had better things to think about.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't think this is an appropriate use of the word "nationality". "Nation" or "country" would have worked better.
@cnn.com

Next year Göttingen will celebrate his 250th birthday with a year full of exhibitions and events at the original sites where Gauß lived and worked. So 2027 may be a good year to consider a trip.

O'Neill was previously CEO of the Thiel Foundation, managing director at Thiel Capital, managing director of Clarium Capital, a hedge fund led by Peter Thiel, and managing director of Mithril Capital Management, a VC fund founded by Peter Thiel that funds Palantir. He co-founded the Thiel Fellowship

Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD studentship:

Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification

Use computational methods (e.g., natural language processing, computer vision) to understand how interventions play out in cultural/social imagination.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

BBC bosses don't seem to care
their right-wing bias is getting
dangerously close to election criminality

"The Green Party have slated the BBC after it handed Reform UK their third Question Time slot in a row the week before a crucial by-election in England"
via The National Newspaper

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil goodlawproject.org/putins-megap...

PRESSURE - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters May 29 YouTube video by Focus Features

The D-Day weather forecast turned into a movie (based on the stage play): Pressure.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdM4...

"Countries that do not buy the product sold by the company that pays my exorbitant salary could be left behind"

Published in @theguardian.com which also has a partnership with said company

That’s funny because countries that embraced George Osborne have been left behind.

I get the strong impression that many of the physical scientists on here are not paying attention to what's happening with their colleagues in the biological sciences.

NIH has some unique problems at the moment, but the broader form of issues does look applicable to NSF, NASA, etc. funding.