By way of introduction, I'm a high school teacher who has taught
primarily chemistry and a little physics. This year, I'll be teaching
all (high school) physics, which is why I'm now on this list.
I do, however, have a lot of experience (more than 25 years) with
internet email discussion lists. People on this list have strong
feelings about physics and science in general--otherwise we wouldn't be
here. From time to time, people on any list like this will post
messages that make us angry. However, the point of the list is physics
and education, so every post should in some way advance list members'
knowledge and understanding of physics and/or education. Posts that
just say some version of "Me too!" or "Bovine skatology!" (B.S. for
short) are not advancing either and don't really belong on the list.
That said, here's some physics content. The round of flamage about the
cooling thread suggested the following Fermi problem to me: how much
energy is required to deliver one content-free post to the 700 members
of this list?
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Jeff Bigler
"Magic" is what we call Science before we understand it.