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#12833

66

Jan. 5, 2024, 4:25 p.m.

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Michael: Are those large chopsticks in your backpack? Can I have them? I can use chopsticks. Trust. //Student gives Michael chopsticks, Michael struggles to pick up a marker on the table, then successfully picks up a plastic ruler Katz, joking: Now eat it! //Michael moves the ruler towards his mouth with chopsticks, but loses his grip, and the ruler falls into his mouth Jacobs: Why did you stick a ruler in your mouth?!

Jacobs, later: "I'm so sad I'm only going to have you for two or three more weeks. ... These are the kinds of surprises that make life worth living."

michael, thermo, chopsticks, jacobs

#12827

22

Jan. 5, 2024, 10:10 a.m.

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// Thermo, a group is making a Stirling engine Jonah: We can eat an entire can of beans. It's not that hard. Jacobs: You're going to eat an entire can of black beans, right now, in class? That is the hardest way to get an empty tin can I could think of. // later, students at the sink, opening the can of beans Jacobs: Are you going to put the scissors IN the beans? Student: No... we already put the scissors in the beans...

#12797

1010

Dec. 21, 2023, 4:04 p.m.

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Jacobs: A round Earth isn't that crazy of a concept. I don't get why people keep trying to replace it with more complicated explanations.

#12774

66

Dec. 19, 2023, 3:59 p.m.

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//showing graph of the huge increases of life expectancy, GDP, population, and CO2 emissions after the Industrial Revolution Jacobs: Three of these lines are good. One of them is bad, but tends to increase with the others. Michael: Life expectancy!

#12702

44

Dec. 11, 2023, 3:55 p.m.

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Jacobs: This is completely outrageous, and immoral, and scandalous Jacobs: and it works pretty well

#12504

55

Nov. 10, 2023, 3:57 p.m.

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//Jacobs shows infographic "Heat Related Deaths ARE Preventable" //about how automobiles heat up well beyond the outside temperature over time //a section with clocks (really, stopwatches) is enclosed in, roughly, a speech bubble attached to the car Michael: So is the kid [in the car] supposed to be saying all that? Jacobs: Well, if you look at the diagram, you see the speech bubble coming from the back window panel in the car. Jacobs, later: The car doesn't have an exhaust pipe. The exhaust is these floating, visible clocks. Jacobs: Have you not seen cars in the summer, giving off floating clocks as exhaust? Jacobs, later: This is why we turn back the clocks in the fall; it's to clear away the clocks that cars have left hanging in the air as exhaust.

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clock, car, thermo, michael, jacobs

#12170

33

Sept. 20, 2023, 5:23 p.m.

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Jacobs: More fire is always the solution.

#12169

44

Sept. 20, 2023, 5:23 p.m.

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Jacobs: Avogadro's Law: If you put in twice as much gas, the balloon is twice as large. Jacobs: Wow. I could've figured that out. I could've had a Law named after me. //later, Jacobs tries to put an egg in a flask, and it doesn't fit Jacobs: This is physics, everyone: the thing is bigger than the other thing, so it won't go in. //Entire class erupts in thunderous applause

#12124

66

Sept. 14, 2023, 4:38 p.m.

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Jacobs: David and Josh, your answers to question 4 are suspiciously similar. You both had this parenthetical at the end. Jacobs: Josh wrote "or pipe it to a NOT gate, but where's the fun in that?", and you wrote "or electronically negate it, but that would be boring". Katz: We think very similarly. Jacobs: If you weren't across the room from each other, I'd suspect copying.

#12107

44

Sept. 12, 2023, 3:08 p.m.

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Jacobs: What happens if you cheat? Student: You get a zero Jacobs: For the rest of your life, every night, as you go to sleep, you will remember that you are a dirty cheater, with poor ethics and morals. Jacobs: That's the worst I can do. ... I'll also give you a zero, but that's not as bad.