Rubber dino, you’re the one, You make bathtime lots of fun Rubber dino, I’m awfully fond of you Doo-doo doo-de-doo Rubber dino, fearsome roar, Good thing you’re a herbivore Rubber dino, I’m awfully fond of you doo-doo doo-de-doo Every day when I, get undressed next to the sink, I find a Little fella who’s, cute… Continue reading Ode to a Rubber Dinosaur
Month: September 2010
Pop Culture Poll: Wedding Music
Prompted by an off-line conversation, a question about the magnum opus of Jim Steinman and Marvin Lee Aday: Playing “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” at a wedding reception is:online surveys I’m sure you can come up with lots of songs that would be even less appropriate. Feel free to leave them in the comments.
Teacher Evaluation and Test Scores, aleph-nought in a series
There’s been a lot of energy expended blogging and writing about the LA Times’s investigation of teacher performance in Los Angeles, using “Value Added Modeling,” which basically looks at how much a student’s scores improved during a year with a given teacher. Slate rounds up a lot of reactions, in a slightly snarky form, and… Continue reading Teacher Evaluation and Test Scores, aleph-nought in a series
Technical Request: Gas Cell Filling
I doubt that this will actually work, but then the Web has brought me some improbable successes before, so it’s worth a shot: I have a sealed glass cell (Pyrex, I think, if it matters) that I would like to get re-filled with a mix of rare gases– partial pressures of 100mT Ne, 30mT Ar,… Continue reading Technical Request: Gas Cell Filling
Simple Answers to Complex Medical Questions
There’s a new medical study of the effects of alcohol consumption that finds a surprising result: Controlling only for age and gender, compared to moderate drinkers, abstainers had a more than 2 times increased mortality risk, heavy drinkers had 70% increased risk, and light drinkers had 23% increased risk. A model controlling for former problem… Continue reading Simple Answers to Complex Medical Questions
Links for 2010-09-01
This is why I “support” majoritarian rule. – Acephalous “As a means of registering my discontent with conservative claims that the fact that 70 percent of Americans abhor the idea of the “Ground Zero Mosque” means it should be abandoned, I hereby present other things that 70 percent of “certain” Americans once hated.” (tags: politics… Continue reading Links for 2010-09-01