Re: [Phys-l] "Ask Marilyn"

["M. Horton" <scitch@verizon.net>]

I have it sitting next to my desk.  I was considering sending a response, 
but I'm sure they'd fall on deaf ears.  The magnetic poles and weight loss 
questions were particularly disturbing to be thought of as unanswerable.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugh Haskell" <haskellh@verizon.net>
To: "Forum for Physics Educators" <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 10:07 PM
Subject: [Phys-l] "Ask Marilyn"


> Did anyone see the "Ask Marilyn" column in this week's Parade
> Magazine? I used to always tell my students that there are no dumb
> questions, but this week she proved me wrong with a sample of 10 of
> the dumbest questions I have ever heard. What was even dumber, was
> her statement that they were unanswerable. Most of them were so
> trivial that they should be answerable by any adult who completed
> grammar school.
>
> I'll admit that I might have trouble keeping from laughing if I was
> on the receiving end of any of them, and I'll admit that a couple of
> them would require a minute or two to think about how to answer them,
> but unanswerable? I don't think so.
>
> Hugh
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