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Trouble With Math? Maybe You Should Get Your Brain Zapped
ScienceNOW ^
| 16 May 2013
| Emily Underwood
Posted on 05/19/2013 5:14:27 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
05/19/2013 5:14:27 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
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posted on
05/19/2013 5:17:29 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
To: neverdem
I once had a B.F.Skinner type flash (9th grade) when I completely understood all of the arithmetic,algebra,math,trigonometry,calculus after having struggled with those concepts previously. I’ve made my living since exploiting those skills.
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posted on
05/19/2013 5:22:34 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: neverdem
Instead of holding the pitiful public schools and unionized teachers responsible, we're now supposed to go get electro shock "treatments". Just line eveyone up to get their brain zapped by the government - no danger there! /sarc
Is it covered by the abomination known as 0bamacare?
To: neverdem
My math skills are terrible but now I am too old to care.
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posted on
05/19/2013 5:35:17 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: neverdem
What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
05/19/2013 5:35:51 PM PDT
by
bgill
(The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
To: neverdem
“Trouble With Math? Maybe You Should Get Your Brain Zapped”
Cool! Is there an app for that?
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posted on
05/19/2013 5:45:41 PM PDT
by
Jyotishi
(Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
To: gorush
Same thing happened with me back in HS. I sucked at math, yet parents were both accountants. Then it just happened, I just called it an epiphany where every math equation looked easy. Add to the mystery was that the HS bullies who beat up other kids for their lunch money were math geniuses..
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posted on
05/19/2013 5:57:13 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
To: max americana
It was an almost orgasmic moment for me, I’ll never forget it...and that was back in the early ‘60’s.
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posted on
05/19/2013 6:01:06 PM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: neverdem
Trouble With Math? Maybe You Should Get Your Brain Zapped "Learn math, or we're gonna shock the livin' sh** outta you!"
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posted on
05/19/2013 6:06:08 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
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posted on
05/19/2013 6:14:13 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: neverdem
I do not need help with arithmetic, especially not the sort of help that involves 20 minutes of electricity over five days, which is a total of 182 minutes...no, wait, it's 41 minutes...(grabbing pencil) times 5, carry the two, it's 239 minutes...dang it (grabbing calculator) it's five times the number of minutes in a day minus the time you're not being zapped plus an allowance for Coriolus Force... times Boltzmann's Constant...it's...6.023 x 1023...no wait, that's the number of moles in my yard... 42 MINUTES! What do I win?
To: Ditter
But how do you KNOW you’re too old to care?
:)
To: neverdem
A six month boost? Reminds me of “Flowers for Algernon.”
To: neverdem
A six month boost? Reminds me of “Flowers for Algernon.”
To: Patriot95
I know that I have forgotten most of the math that I learned and I KNOW I don't care. I have a calculator.
Trust me I'm old! :D
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posted on
05/19/2013 6:26:37 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: neverdem
I have been zapped a few times playing with electronic stuff. Leaving a auto coil laying can be fun with friends. Maybe this is why many guys do better in math than girls. Girls are too smart to pick up the coil.
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posted on
05/19/2013 6:32:28 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(Normal isn't normal anymore.)
To: neverdem
Sarah Hall Ingram says she’s not good at math ...
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posted on
05/19/2013 6:51:44 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
("If not us, who? If not now, when?" - Ronald Reagan)
To: neverdem
... the participants memorized arbitrary mathematical "facts," such as 4#10 = 23, then performed a more sophisticated task requiring multiple steps of arithmetic, also based on memorized symbols.Sounds like a Monty Python skit!
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posted on
05/19/2013 7:06:14 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: neverdem
The electrical current slowly ramped up to about 1 milliampa tiny fraction of the voltage of an AA batteryIf small electrical currents increase your ability to grasp technical stuff, this guy needs to grab his ignition coil. If I introduced him to Eli the Iceman, he'd probably eat him.
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posted on
05/19/2013 8:26:42 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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