IgnoranceI once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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Teach them while they're youngAs a graduate student in Atmospheric Sciences, I once spoke to an elementary school class about Weather, as part of an educational outreach program. I was teamed up with another climate-oriented graduate student - a new student who struck me as amiable, but a bit of a doofus.
In his talk to the impressionable students, my teammate stated that during the Ice Ages, the glaciers had advanced so far towards the Equator that the entire Earth had been covered in ice.
The students seemed skeptical. They were a media-savvy generation, and had seen "The Flintstones." How could cavemen keep dinosaur steeds if they had no place to graze them?
(, Sat 1 Sep 2012, 17:54, 3 replies)
Surely he meant glacial period, as we're still in an ice age...(, Sat 1 Sep 2012, 18:48, closed)
He never really said ....But the inside of his van was lined with carpeting, and his favorite motto was: "If this van's a-rockin' don't bother knockin'."
(, Sun 2 Sep 2012, 10:44, closed)
He even got that wrong.It's don't come a-knocking. Don't bother knocking is ambiguous to say the least, and sounds like an invitation to enter smartly and observe him wanking like a fat chimp. (I would be upset to find out the rocking was caused by him actually doing real carnal sex at someone.)
(, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 16:00, closed)
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