Exactly! And what’s more, when I write them out I need to think about how the information is related so I can have a logical layout, which mens I really really think about it. For example, I only remember that acute leukemias have fevers and chronic don’t because of how I wrote my jotes out.

The science is behond us on this one. Numerous studies have shown that writing things by hand, and particularly writing “clean” versions of your notes is way better for retention and recall and understanding than any other method.

There is some evidence that women aren’t in STEM at high levels because the sexual harrasment wears them down and they leave.

If he had the normal kind, I would have agreed with you. But the kind he had actually isn’t nearly as bad. He had a good chance at a cure with standard treatment when it was first discovered.

Assuming he lives in California’s central valley and has contacts, so only pays $1 a pound, that’s still way too much money. If he’s just lucky enough to find $2 a pound fruit for half the year, it’s insane.

That’s because it’s easy to extend in the humanities, both in the classroom and outside. And the huge range of topics means you could spend eigth years at high school just doing all the histories and languages, and model UN and debate and what have you. Mathematics is much more linear, particularly until you are…

Yeah, grade skipping is never going to help most of these kids, and those pullout programs are even more pathetic. The implosion so many of us have xperienced or witnessed is because there is essentially no effort made to make sure that all kids have to work to learn. Are people really surprised that spending two…

Mathematicians are not like you and I. They rate each other absolutely in terms of raw talent, and are used to having very young rock stars, if this turns out to be one. Look, for example, at Terry Tao.

The problem is that kids like him don’t have many peers, and if they do, they don’t usually live within a five hour drive of them. He’s fucked no matter what, but at least at college he might find people who are socially immature and also interested in calculus.

She’s saying that when you kill off your normal flora with the sanitiser, the MRSA doesn’t have any plain old SA to compete with. The flaw in the argument is that you’re unlikely to have gotten MRSa up your arm, so by killing the MRSA on your hands you can recolonise that skin with SA rich flora from your wrist.

Where the hell are you from? And how have you avoided the internet until now? Obv not UK, Aus or NZ, a Canadian would know about Americans. Is it South Africa? Somewhere in the West Indies? You must be native English speaking because you’re so caught up in exact terminology, but not in the normal way an adult in this…

Manfacturing tanks are not cleaned with this sort of namby pamby bullshit. Heavy duty caustic or chlorinated cleaners are the way to go when skin isn’t involved.

I would hazard a guess that the nasties on your hands in a hospital are so nasty that any minute advantage in killing from an antibacterial product is a good thing. Hospital staff could easily have HIV, Hep B, C diff, CRE, CRO, MRSA and more on their hands. There are a lot of handwashing stations in hospitals, and…

Pshaw, it’s not like C diff and norovirus are all that awful!

Not as bad as people using hand sanitiser before they touch me. Eeew, wash your goddam C diff smeared hands.

My kids school possbly stopped asking parents to send in pencils because of me and a couple of others. They kept asking for Ticonderoga, so I’d send in multiple extra packets of NOT Ticonderoga, plus some literature.

Hand sanitiser doesn’t use triclosan, microban, etc. They use alcohol, which is a total kill product and doesn’t cause resistance.

I always just use bar soap, it rinses cleaner any way. Have they banned it from children’s pencils, scissors and other random toys yet?

If you handle money or door knobs between touching your phone, then, yes’ it’s shit smeared. If you wipe your phone down with an alcohol wipe every few days to weeks you’ll be fine. It’s that they never ever get cleaned that’s the problem.

Teach him to say “I, personally, disagree with the policies of Donald Trump because I prioritise human good over the interests of businesses.” It’s a long way of saying Trump sux.