Archives for "August, 2011"

Posted by Chris on 31st August 2011
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First day of school

The things we did: Spent half the day in advisory and at an assembly. Advisory was less-than-fun, because it was (1) with ninth graders who already did the activities in eighth grade with the exact same group of people and (2) consisted of 40 people because they paired off groups. Oh well. Saw each of [...]

Posted by Chris on 26th August 2011
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Wait, what?

Here’s a question in my textbook: The weight of a person’s skin is related to body weight by the equation s = 0.0625w, where s is skin weight and w is body weight. If a person calculates skin weight as 9.75 pounds, what is the person’s body weight? Um. Really? That’s the direction you want [...]