I used to like a variety of banana sold in the US as "apple banana" although it seems to have several other names. It actually has a slight apple taste to it. But after a couple months of my local grocery store carrying it for one season, I haven't seen it again in a normal store.
"You don't treat waitresses nicer because you know what it's like to wait tables."
Funny enough about this example though, nearly everyone I know that has worked in a restaurant has a rather solid and similar opinion about how to treat restaurant employees and an understanding of the nature of tips and how some problems are out of the hands of waitstaff. While I know plenty of people without such experiences that think similarly, I've also seen plenty that do some sort of mental gymnastics to explain why their far from ideal behavior as a customer in a restaurant is justified. While not necessary, in my experience, people working such jobs, even for just a couple months one summer, seems to have some impact. For a day or two, you could isolate yourself and not interact much with other workers, but after a couple weeks, you're going to hear and have to deal with some coworkers' life stories, whether you want to or not. Some even extrapolate their experiences to understanding issues workers in other types of jobs deal with, while some need to work a couple different jobs to pick up on such things, and yet others would probably never learn anything, but that is true of many topics.
If a private school thinks this is an important part of their education, and has some fair way to evaluate it, then it seems like it could fit in. It doesn't matter that some people might find a way to survive it without learning anything, as that seems true of nearly any educational process
I've heard many complaints going in the exact opposite direction, that beef gravy is a faux pas, especially if made too dark and/or dense. While chicken gravy was considered acceptable as it might be all one can easily have on hand, the answer for what was "proper" involved some combination of chicken and beef gravy, or chicken and veal gravy.
A question about trains, yet no Eurorails? And Axis and Allies is considered the hardest rules ever? Is that with or without the various house rules people pile on top of the game?
I had gotten meteorite-titanium rings online several years ago, and they might have been a tiny bit cheaper, but this place looks like they have a bigger variety and selection. The materials aren't too expensive (even scraps of dinosaur bones), it comes mostly down to labor from what I've seen. But for those interested, shop around, as not there must be a couple places doing things like this. I'm not sure if they are hand made, or if she used "handcrafted" to mean no mass produced, as other places just used a lot of lathe work.
I've had a teacher that did something like this as a quiz for European countries, and I've had enough uses of a map as a kid I can do it with the US, just not as pretty as Al Franken's map.
Just as math gives you the tools to make things work, ultimately some mathematician will give you a tool to break things by removing assumptions. Try it out with modular arithmetic with some careful choice... like the value 2 mod 4: 2*(2 mod 4) = 0 mod 4 (0 mod 4) + 10 = 2 mod 4 (2 mod 4) / 2 = 1 mod 4 (definition of division in modular arithmetic is tricky) (1 mod 4) - 2 = 3 mod 4
Although modular division is kind of tricky, and there are two possible values x, such that 2x = 2 mod 4: the 1 mod 4 used above, and 3 mod 4, for which 3 mod 4 - 2 = 1 mod 4 = 5. So it can still work, but for only one of the possible outcomes of the division.
People seem to have no problem with using the word "photo" for mosaic panoramas taken on Earth, even with with contrast and brightness changes. And the images for the mosaic are all from a couple hour period, so it is not like some weird time-lapse effect to combine them. But if you wanted raw Cassini photos, you can easily get some here.
I've seen ~3 categories of physics dissertations. The theorists joke about just stapling together 3-4 papers to get a thesis that lacks a smooth connection between the parts, but it isn't too far from the truth for some subfields. Those can be quite short, as each part has been condensed down, and a lot of the trial-and-error math work is left out. Experimental dissertations that have done their own completely separate project or were involved in the start up of a new larger scale experiment can be quite long 200-300+ pages, because they spend a lot of time describing just the details of construction and a lot of initial, basic data. Later dissertations on those experiments can be much shorter, around 100 pages, as they can reference the earlier work that describes a large chunk of the experiment, then go straight into the new, typically more specific work. I ended up in the last category, with a lot of stuff just summing up solutions to problems instead of analyzing all of the lower quality data taken while trying to improve things.
One strapping was just more comfortable (especially in hot environments), and quicker. The exception is when the bag is too heavy, or you are doing something that jostles the bag around a lot. I one strapped before high school and after high school, except when on a bike, carrying other things, or wearing puffy winter clothes. High school was an exception, because of a snafu making lockers essentially useless at my high school and the school not willing to pay for a classroom set of books, many of use were carrying 30+ lbs of books to every class.
And what is the deal with the pie charts that seem to be a bit awkward for presenting a time series? I thought awkward, non-meme pie charts were so 1990s.
Making it clear it is median income helps, as some place use plots of average income, which can be a bit misleading. A big change when comparing grad vs. undergrad is the nuclear engineering major, where with only a four year degree you could end up being a technician (almost like Homer Simpson type job) which doesn't necessarily pay well. I remember seeing stats for that major before being a lot lower than I expected.
I've seen interesting stats come out of APS before, although that is specific only to mostly physics majors. Sometimes it also makes a difference to break down salaries into those fresh out of school versus those with experience. I assumed other professional societies in other fields try to keep similar records, but I haven't looked into it or noticed before.
There is some argument over what was the first video game depending on exactly how you want to define a video game. Wikipedia tries to have a list of early games
Like cars, few people pay the sticker price at expensive schools, especially better ones that have decent financial aid and as long as your family is not rich. I went to one of those schools that lists its annual price as ~$35k (which includes room, board and travel budget that you can sometime save on), and came out with no debt and my middle class family paying a fraction of that, and the few, small scholarships I had made no difference.
My mother is a financial aid officer... but in the end it wasn't any secret information that made a difference, the only big piece of advice that she gave to me and to family members trying to pick schools, is to not reject a school due to costs until you get their financial aid offer and see how much they are expecting you to pay (which is going to be similar among most schools costing more than they expect you to pay), and if the remainder consist of loans or grants.
Funny enough about this example though, nearly everyone I know that has worked in a restaurant has a rather solid and similar opinion about how to treat restaurant employees and an understanding of the nature of tips and how some problems are out of the hands of waitstaff. While I know plenty of people without such experiences that think similarly, I've also seen plenty that do some sort of mental gymnastics to explain why their far from ideal behavior as a customer in a restaurant is justified. While not necessary, in my experience, people working such jobs, even for just a couple months one summer, seems to have some impact. For a day or two, you could isolate yourself and not interact much with other workers, but after a couple weeks, you're going to hear and have to deal with some coworkers' life stories, whether you want to or not. Some even extrapolate their experiences to understanding issues workers in other types of jobs deal with, while some need to work a couple different jobs to pick up on such things, and yet others would probably never learn anything, but that is true of many topics.
If a private school thinks this is an important part of their education, and has some fair way to evaluate it, then it seems like it could fit in. It doesn't matter that some people might find a way to survive it without learning anything, as that seems true of nearly any educational process
2*(2 mod 4) = 0 mod 4
(0 mod 4) + 10 = 2 mod 4
(2 mod 4) / 2 = 1 mod 4 (definition of division in modular arithmetic is tricky)
(1 mod 4) - 2 = 3 mod 4
Although modular division is kind of tricky, and there are two possible values x, such that 2x = 2 mod 4: the 1 mod 4 used above, and 3 mod 4, for which 3 mod 4 - 2 = 1 mod 4 = 5. So it can still work, but for only one of the possible outcomes of the division.
And what is the deal with the pie charts that seem to be a bit awkward for presenting a time series? I thought awkward, non-meme pie charts were so 1990s.
I've seen interesting stats come out of APS before, although that is specific only to mostly physics majors. Sometimes it also makes a difference to break down salaries into those fresh out of school versus those with experience. I assumed other professional societies in other fields try to keep similar records, but I haven't looked into it or noticed before.
My mother is a financial aid officer... but in the end it wasn't any secret information that made a difference, the only big piece of advice that she gave to me and to family members trying to pick schools, is to not reject a school due to costs until you get their financial aid offer and see how much they are expecting you to pay (which is going to be similar among most schools costing more than they expect you to pay), and if the remainder consist of loans or grants.