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Feb. 27, 2024, 3 p.m.

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Alex Joseph: Why is DDT called the Brittney Spears of pesticides? Glenn: I don't know...maybe because it's toxic?

#11938

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June 5, 2023, 4:22 p.m.

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Stein: Do teenagers in different cities drink soda at different rates? Joseph: In southern cities, they don't drink any soda. They drink pop.

#11829

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May 11, 2023, 2:12 p.m.

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// SRP Proposal presentations Alex Joseph: I apologize if this is incomplete and unpolished, because I made it 30 minutes ago.

#10147

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March 4, 2022, 10:45 a.m.

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//3rd period Digital Art Joseph: Why scream Blair when you can just whisper Joseph: *writes "mbhs" in lowercase* Joseph, a few minutes later: I just drew a phallic object

Do you ever see someone and wonder, "What is going on inside their head?"

digital art, da, joseph

#7981

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March 4, 2019, 4:09 p.m.

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//Complex, discussing analytic functions //Schwartz writes "Analyticity" on the board Joseph: If there's analyticity, then what about analytize? Schwartz: ... I am now hesitant to coin terms based off the word "analytic", because it contains a word... that appears on your transcript. About 5 years ago, I had this student named Teddy. He convinced me to use the word "analicious" to denote being happy about a function being analytic. He totally knew what he was doing, but I was completely unaware and kept saying it for 2-3 weeks.

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Nov. 13, 2018, 1:27 p.m.

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//Organic chemistry, period 4 Hart: What if there's an active shooter and a fire at the same time? Joseph: Tell the teacher.

reference to the science safety test

joseph, hart

#7637

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Oct. 8, 2018, 11:10 p.m.

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//Logic period 7 Rose: Kline talks about ancient Greece in all of chapter 1, and he skips all the way to 16th century Europe. He is clearly biased toward European philosophers. //Later Rose: The Greeks denoted numbers by segment lengths. They couldn't even multiply 4 things together because they could only imagine 3 dimensions. Meanwhile, other civilizations like the Chinese and Indians took numbers very seriously. Joseph: There are other civilizations!?

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Sept. 24, 2018, 4:04 p.m.

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//Logic period 7 Rose: Lately, our baby just started screaming. She wouldn't stop until we gave her food. For the first 7 months we've raised her, she was the perfect, adorable baby, but... Joseph: She used to be the form of a baby.

Context: Plato proposed that each object had a "form", the perfect version of that object, which is what we think of when someone mentions that object. For example, the form of a circle is perfect-- the locus of points equidistant from a point. But, no perfect circles exist in our world.

logic, rose, joseph

#7583

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Sept. 13, 2018, 11:21 p.m.

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Rose: Pythagoras had this cult where they believed that "all is number". So, when one of his disciples showed that the diagonal of a square of side length 1 can't be expressed as the ratio of whole numbers, he threw him off a boat so that the proof wouldn't get out. Joseph (quietly): Project Polyhedra is also a cult

#7431

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April 20, 2018, 12:48 a.m.

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//Microeconomics, discussing cigarettes as an example of a negative externality Hinkle: I hate cigarettes. Isn’t it great when you go out with a girl when you were 16 and she smells like smoke all over? Joseph: Was this supposed to happen to me already?