Re: Yahoo! Groups : psychohistory: members 210
From: David C. Ullrich (ullrich_at_math.okstate.edu)
Date: 07/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:39:03 -0500
On Tue, 27 Jul 04 10:34:38 GMT, jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>In article <qjacg05t73q51s6h7fv3t4e3t4mcusss6g@4ax.com>,
> David C. Ullrich <ullrich@math.okstate.edu> wrote:
>>On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:32:19 GMT, Roger Bagula <tftn@earthlink.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> A discussion group based on Isaac Asimov's predictive science of
>>>Psychohistory <http://www.ozemail.com/%7Eibs/neil/history.html>.
>>>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psychohistory/
>>
>>Golly - I guess it follows that Asimov really _did_ invent
>>such a science, and those of us pointing out that it was
>>just something he made up in a work of _fiction_ were
>>wrong.
>>
>>And then of course that makes the relevance to sci.math clear.
>>Huh.
>
>It's a very strange phenomenon. Have you noticed that people
>insist that the only "facts" in the world have to be on
>a web site? That only an interpretation of a source
>is the only acceptable cite? I listened to our local radio
>talk show. A lot of people implicitly believed that, if
>they vote Democrat, Al Queda will disappear; a side effect
>of watching too many movies and TV shows...I think.
>
>How do you handle this smoke when teaching math? I'm assuming
>the attitude is spilling to the classrooms, too.
Not sure what the question is. In math classes they pretty
much believe what I tell them, alas.
>/BAH
>
>Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.
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David C. Ullrich
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