Rob Knop (rknop)
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Mr Santorum: if Dems are anti-science due to belief in global warming, then *most working scientists* are too! http://ur1.ca/8aoik
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I saved myself from having to do a lot of grading tonight by bringing home the wrong stack from my desk. Oops.
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It turns out that 100 divided by 10 is 10, not 100.
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Apostrophe shortage: all the apostrophes used to pluralize words means that people resort to "your" for "you're" and "their" for "they're".
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It's very irritating that the SAT trains students that ratios are written with colons. Ratios are just fractions, just numbers!
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It's irritating and frustrating that people still use IE8 and earlier. Basic standard javascript stuff just doesn't work there.
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Quest University Canada is again #1 in every category of the National Survey of Student Engagement http://ur1.ca/860ay
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Example pitfall of "see something, say something" and "if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear": http://ur1.ca/85xyg
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Dear Astronomers: when your paper is accepted, you're supposed to upload it to arXiv.org! (Abt, I'm looking at you.)
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ACTA is an international treaty, secretly and undemocratically negotiated, that is as oppressive as SOPA. Today is the day to kill it.
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Today is the day to kill ACTA: http://ur1.ca/845i2
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If I had a daughter, and she ran Windows on her laptop instead of Linux, you'd damn well better believe I'd empty a pistol into it!
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The univs should make sure they aren't abused like that, but by grabbing exclusive rights for themselves they undercut good public service.
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Researchers who use univ resources to develop, and then patent and profit themselves are ALSO bad, not just to the univ but to society.
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University administrations that grab exclusive patent rights are working against the proper mission of a University. http://ur1.ca/83f6p
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New blog post: "Charged Particles and Magnetic Fields" : http://ur1.ca/82rd5
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Freedom of speech does not really exist when crap like this happens: http://goo.gl/LMjPv
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The fundamental problem is metrics. When you reward "impact factor", people chase "impact factor", not value. http://ur1.ca/8020d
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Dear DHS: this kind of stuff doesn't make America safe, it makes America embarrassing and stupid. http://ur1.ca/7y4bv
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Alas, it doesn't make sense to boycott Apple over Chinese working conditions unless you boycott EVERY OTHER major US company.
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