Re: Humorous Article

[Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM>]

Yes, Doug, for some this _is_ humorous, but this is a bad day for humor in
my world.  I see this as the pitiful outcome of our questionable teaching
-- not mainly of the public but of the teachers of the public -- after all
this begins in the elementary schools, on Bill Nye, and in the comics.

We may say that it is easier to teach this stuff and for our students to
learn this stuff while we wait to teach them a better story,

but this is really what we are doing.

Jim Green

At 11:53 AM 9/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
> The Winnipeg Free Press' Sunday Homes supplement yesterday contained an
> infomercial about infrared heaters.  Get a load of the first paragraph:
>
>   Infra-red heat energy is a form of
>   radiation that closely resembles
>   and behaves much the same as
>   light.  The basic different between
>   the two is that upon striking an
>   object, infra-red energy is
>   converted to heat, whereas light
>   energy changes to illumination.
>   The sun is the best example of an
>   infra-red source.  The sun
>   transmits its heat through space
>   to earth by radiation, releasing its
>   heat when the infra-red rays strike
>   the earth's surface.  Like the sun,
>   the Caribe radiant heater also
>   produces infra-red energy through
>   gas combustion.

Jim Green
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