Dear Student, I’ll put it this way: You don’t seem to understand me yet, but you keep getting closer. -Limits
“Dead Poets Society” for Skeptics (or, How to Inspire Your Way into a Godawful Mess)
As guiding principles go, “carpe diem” seems to have all the intellectual heft of a Dos Equis commercial.
The Death of Science Fiction
"Real sci-fi challenges our complacency, but Hollywood sci-fi encourages it!"
Art Museum in Utopia
It’s just not… very… interesting. Don’t you have anything by tortured geniuses?
One in a Million
"Wow! I love you too, but statistically, it's VERY unlikely that you're anywhere near 'one in a million.'"
Your Own Biathlon
Biathletes aren't the world's best skiers. And they're not the world's best shooters. They've just found a hybrid task that perfectly suits their weird mixture of talents.
Random Victories
Your team's victory was just a fluke, an anomaly of small sample size!
The Voldemort of Calculus Classes
16B is merely Franken-calculus, stitched together from the corpses of actual classes.
Nonstandard Dancing
You know how they've got nonstandard analysis, right? Could we do the same... for dancing?
Wealth, Acclaim, and Fancy Catered Lunches (or, Why I’m a Teacher)
Are my reasons romantic or pedestrian?