26 January 2010

Workout notes Yoga with Ms. Vickie (stiff), 4000 yards (15 x 200; first three were about 3:45, 40, 35, 12 on the 3:30. Then 500 of drill/swim (fins), 500 cool down.

Then weights; first sets were a bit off; was able to handle 25 curl, 45 military, 70 bench press (all with dumbbells; one in each hand); lat pulls, pull ups, yoga leg lifts.

Mathematics/education

I remember seeing something similar to this in the College Mathematics Journal; this is similar:

Reuters today released a hilarious account marking the collapse of the Antarctic shelf. According to Reuters,

The Antarctic Peninsular has warmed by 36 degrees Fahrenheit over the past half century, far faster than elsewhere on the ice-bound continent or the rest of the world.

Huh? If the Antarctic shelf had warmed 36 degrees over the last 50 years, the shelf would have collapsed a long time ago. So how did the moron who wrote this arrive at this figure?

Ah, you see, the actual warming was only about 2.5 degrees Celsius.

Can you guess what happened?

I used this in class yesterday; most of my “off semester “brief calculus”" students were stumped though one got it right away.

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