I’m going to date myself here.
Back when I was a teenager, you couldn’t get a lot of things over the counter. Mostly because of the mores and inhibitions that pervaded American society back then. (Still now?)
Continue reading Adam & Eve- NOT the first 2 humans
A little history today. Not too far back.
Back around 1900, a new chemical company was forming- Engelhard. Right about the time industrial chemists were finding out they needed a lot more engineering to scale up and produce the chemicals the world would need. And, chemical engineering was born about the same time.
Of the more bizarre things I learned some five or six decades ago was that everything has a wavelength. Yes, a car that weighs about a ton has a wavelength; albeit a small one on the order of 5 X 10-47 nm. And, when compared to the wavelength of red light, which is 700 nm, you can see that the wave properties of a car are pretty darned small- especially in relation to the effect of its mass.
Continue reading The theory says…
What a surprise- not! A new study (based upon US Bureau of Census data) has reported that folks who go to college earn $ 1 million more than those who don’t. No, not in one year, silly- over their lifetimes. Which comes to about $ 25K a year. Moreover, this data has been around for at least 40 years- because I knew these facts back when I was teaching.
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