Re: [Phys-l] Nurture vs Nature (Was:Student engagement)

["LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu>]

One can't blame the Amish for the space heaters. If you read the ads carefully, the Amish only make the hand crafted mantels that hold the heaters. Besides, the heaters are given away free - one only pays for the mantel - how can you argue with a deal like that?

:-)

Bob at PC

Physics - Fair and Balanced

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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Hugh Haskell [haskellh@verizon.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 11:55 PM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Nurture vs Nature (Was:Student engagement)

At 15:51 -0600 12/08/2009, John Clement wrote:
> What about physicists and chemists.  We invented much more efficient killing
> machines.  Biologists are not far behind.  About the only people you can not
> blame for modern society's ills are the Amish.
Except for those bloody space heaters that purportedly produce 50%
more heat energy than the electricity they consume. If the money
spent on ads for those infernal devices was available to the federal
government we could cut our deficit to zero :-). I'm all for jobs for
the Amish, but I think we have to draw the line at repeal of the
First law of Thermodynamics.

Hugh

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