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Sept. 17, 2013, 5:44 p.m.

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//Discussing Newton's third law, how throwing stuff off a vehicle will get you moving Schafer: So you're in a college class, and the professor gives you some problem like this: "Say you take your girlfriend or your boyfriend for a boat ride in a pond. But, you lose your paddlers. How do you get back to land?" See, this question is just bad. Like, they want you to say something about taking off your clothes and throwing them out the boat, but you could just swim! In fact, you could probably wait a bit and eventually just drift back to shore. Billy Leete: Why don't you just throw your girlfriend out of the boat?

#4625

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Oct. 17, 2013, 11:46 a.m.

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//Prange is running back and forth across the room waving his arms Prange: I'm just a gas particle floating around! //Stein opens the door Stein: Mr. Prange, are you feeling OK? Prange: Oh no! You let the gas particle out! //Prange runs out of the room //Prange comes back a minute later Prange: Stein says I don't look like a gas particle.

#4652

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Nov. 13, 2013, 8:58 p.m.

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Street: My students are all gifted. Severely gifted. Pham: Gifted means you put something in a box and throw it away.

#4944

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May 16, 2014, 9:29 p.m.

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//Schwartz is handing out pieces of leftover FTC cookie-cake to 9th period Analysis II. Sam: I'm taking a second piece for Kejin [his girlfriend]. Schwartz: You'll give her the bigger one if you know what's good for you.

#5248

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Nov. 10, 2014, 8:46 p.m.

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//Norton on semantics Norton: So Stein really says 'arbitrary' instead of 'random'? That's so pretentious!

#5319

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Dec. 15, 2014, 7:59 p.m.

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//Functions, first period. Descartes Law of Signs and Upper Bound of Roots Theorem. Rose has just used synthetic division with 5 on a polynomial and ended up with a nonzero remainder. Rose: Oh no! 5 is not a real root! But, class, you see, dividing by a number that is not a root is a lot like a break-up: You could just rush on blindly looking for the next opportunity, or you could slow down and consider the implications, and why everything went wrong... So what does anyone notice about the remainder? Noah Kim: Wait, Mr. Rose, is this related to your personal experience? //a little bit later, talking about graphs of polynomials in relation to roots Rose: But we know what graphs of polynomials look like! They're so continuous and smooth and predictable.... Noah Kim: Mr. Rose, you are still talking about math, right?

#5430

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March 23, 2015, 11:25 p.m.

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//At the beginning of the semester, freshman Chem. Phan is explaining about Chem life. Pham: None of you guy should stay up until five in the morning. You know me? I usually sleep around ten, ten thirty. Pham: But I also stay up until five sometime. You know what I do? Class:... grading papers? Pham: No! I play video games!

#5487

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May 13, 2015, 8:55 p.m.

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//Block A freshman chem, launching hot air balloons after school. Alex Wang, launching his balloon: there are a lot of holes in this. Pham: Hole don't matter. Alex Wang: But there are holes at the top. I call sabotage! Pham: Who?

#5606

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Oct. 28, 2015, 11:54 a.m.

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// Street talks about cars Student: How does a car engine work? Street: Technical, or easy-to-understand? Students: Easy to understand Street: there are four steps: Suck,Squeeze, Bang, and Blow. You can interpret that in two ways...

#5816

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Feb. 18, 2016, 1:21 p.m.

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//After discussing equivalence classes in Discrete, whereupon class informs Rose that Schwartz already introduced the concept Rose: Oh, yeah, Mr. Schwartz is crazy. It used to be I was the only one who would teach crazy crap, but since they hired Schwartz it's getting out of control.