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Re: [Phys-l] Mme. Curie, mentor.



Bernard Cleyet (2011a) in his Phys-L/PhysLrnR/Physhare post "Re: [Phys-l] Mme. Curie, mentor" wrote (in its cryptic entirety ):

"xkcd: Marie Curie
bc thanks Dean Baird"

Then about 11 hours latter Cleyet (2011b) wrote:

"Thanks to all who replied with the complete 'working' URL: <http://xkcd.com/896/>
bc must send to himself to verify the correct 'working' link."

Better than "sending to himself" why not follow suggestion #9 of "Fourteen Posting Suggestions" [Hake (2005)]:

"9. Give URL's as <http://. . . . .>. . . . . . . CLICK ON ALL URL'S IN YOUR MESSAGE TO BE SURE THEY WORK."

As a scan of Phys-l/PhysLrnR/Physhare archives will attest, "Fourteen Posting Suggestions" has been almost completely ignored by posters on those lists. Evidently most subscribers, although physicists, are free spirited types who would probably agree with William Hazlitt's (1821-22) opinion:

"We hear it maintained by people of more gravity than understanding, that genius and taste are strictly reducible to rules, and that there is a rule for everything. . . . . In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. . . . ."

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the
Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com>
<http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake>


REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on 16 May 2011.]
Cleyet, B. 2011a. "[Phys-l] Mme. Curie, mentor," online on the OPEN! Phys-L archives at <http://bit.ly/jyJWbM>. Post of 15 May 2011 21:48:58-0700 to Phys-L, PhysLrnR, and Physhare.

Cleyet, B. 2011b. "Re: [Phys-l] Mme. Curie, mentor" online on the OPEN! Phys-L archives at <http://bit.ly/jZ4Y1e>. Post of 16 May 2011 09:10:40-0700 to Phys-L, PhysLrnR, and Physhare.

Hake, R.R. 2005. "Fourteen Posting Suggestions (was Extraneous, arrogant, stupid, grossly-misinformed computer OS comments...)" online on the OPEN! Phys-L archives at <http://bit.ly/bEKBeL>. Post of 25 Jul 2005 16:25:2-0700 to AP-Physics, Phys-L, PhysLrnR, Physhare, and Physoc.

Hazlitt, W. 1821-22. "Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners," online thanks to Project Gutenberg at <http://bit.ly/lJYMUB>, scroll to volume I, Essay IV, "On Genius And Common Sense at <http://bit.ly/mpJdaS>. A Wikipedia entry on Hazlitt, "now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language" is at <http://bit.ly/j2Smuz>.