That would be the great part about this club. No admissions essays, no GRTs (or is is GREs??), no theses… everybody welcome! Who knows? Maybe we can learn from each other. 
Yes, it did. Given the level of ignorance we all encounter daily, almost correct is workable.
Given the level of arrogance we all encounter daily, any arrogance in a pedagogue is intolerable. The goal of one is to encourage inquiry, not discourage it by emphasizing details in physics, or other bodies of knowledge that intimidate people.
To fight ignorance, one teaches. To teach, one emphasizes understanding first. Focusing on errors just embarrasses people, and inhibits inquiry, and therefore learning.
So, my posts aren’t just contrarian; I am pitting those who are Insanely Clueless About Instructing the Less Well Informed, Especially about Science.
I have lots of very intelligent friends whose work I can understand, but who are completely intimidated by my profession. It inhibits conversation, and they can not share in my little triumphs at work.
Do you know people who make really good spaghetti sauce who believe they know nothing about chemistry? Car mechanic who think they nothing about physics or computers? Parents who think they nothing about pediatric medicine? Don’t you think they are being cheated?
Besides, there’s cold, and there’s cold. No one ever says it’s too cold to snow on a heavy dark days with high winds from the northeast; they only say that on brutally bright cloudless days when the air’s from the west.
Why are you resisting being educated so much? I learned things when I researched the question of “too cold to snow,” and I passed them on here. I don’t see what the big problem is. Do I take a pedantic, nitpicking tone in real life? No, but this isn’t real life; this is a message board dedicated to fighting ignorance. I do get context.
featherlou, I do apologize for being offensively aggressive. Please understand that I never intended to attack your post, but only the structure of your weatherman’s argument (and I will continue to do so if encouraged).
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I do remember “Too Cold To Snow” being used to explain two concepts in thermodynamics; my original post was just to point out that it is not a “Clueless” concept.
I also know that one can tell when it is ‘too cold to snow’; this is not just a matter of temperature, but cloud cover, wind force, wind direction, and a particular ‘dry’ or ‘snow’ smell in the air.
However, as a scientist and an instructor, I reserve the right to rant about the quality of instruction in the sciences.
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But Jethro Tull is an individual guy!
Not to mention “I Got You, abe” as sung by Bono of U2.
Most excellent laugh of the morning.
I cracked up even further when I read this about the real Mr. Tull:
“…He became sick with a pulmonary disorder, and… he went in a search for a cure…”
Maybe that was where the Aqualung came from?
Also, Siam Sam, I have a feeling what you said is funny but I’ll need an explanation to fully appreciate the whole joke. 
Who is abe and what is his relationship to U2?
(Look, guys, if I don’t get back to this thread for awhile it’s because I’m away for the holiday and of course as it’s a house my family owns it’s in the middle of no Internet accessibility.)
You dumbass! John Cleese is Monty Python; Chapman is Jethro Q. Walrustitty.
Nope.
Ian Anderson’s first wife, Jennie Franks, came up with that. I believe it’s a reference to wheezing, but I can’t find a cite for that.
But it’s pronounced “Throat Warbler Mangrove.”
Hello Again, did the baby ever arrive or are they still waiting? For some reason I can’t stop thinking about these people.
That reminds me a line that my wife hit me with when I came from work one night. There had been a story on CNN that Conan O’Brien had been stalked by a priest who had apparently been a fellow student at Harvard. My wife is not a native English speaker and doesn’t know American talk show hosts, so the story got a bit garbled in the telling:
“Did you hear that the president of Harvard was stalking Kobe Bryant?”
Man, did that ever take some work to unravel.
You’re a scientist and instructor? I did not know that. Rant away. 
The name is Dumass.
Obviously, my B key is malfunctioning. Or perhaps it’s what John Wilkes Booth was singing when he did the deed in Ford’s Theater.
Because the Universe looks after fools and small children, they were delivered of a healthy 9 lbs boy. Who, I assume, will not be vaccinated.
Pheeew. Well, that’s a relief. I mean, the healthy part, not the non-vaccination part. Non-vaxers, especially the proselytizing ones, fill me with grr.
They won’t have to worry about him very long, now, will they?