It makes me sad, because "empathy" and "communication" are exactly what we need more of over here in the hard sciences.

I hear you, I do. A colleague of mine has a fury-inducing story about the Italian physicist who said, with zero irony, during a conference talk, that he was teaching his sons to "do physics like a man."

How about this line, if we're picking and choosing here.

*dies*

As someone who isn't even really "junior faculty" yet. (I have the title, but not the tenure-line position), this is fucking depressing. Expected, but depressing. I'm going to go crawl under my desk while I write the key to my final, kay?

That study was total validation for me. I feel sometimes like one of those rats — when I don't sleep, I'm prone to more pain, acne, canker sores, you name it. When I finally sleep — they get better, almost magically.

I do too, and I freaked out the first time it happened. It was like...why is my pee radioactive?!?

Ha! I do that too. I love my B-complex vitamins.

I learned VB back in high school (and again in college), and you're right. For an interface, it's amazing.

See, there are things I like about Matlab and things I do not like about Matlab. I'll use it when I have to, but I much prefer writing code in C++, so that's where my main projects are.

I'm a computational physicist, and do all my programming in C++. That happened to be one of the first languages I ever learned (in high school), but coding my graduate school research code in C++ was the best decision I ever made.

This is definitely me squawking, for sure.

Which is only more hilarious when you consider his kick-ass ex-nun of a wife, whom he called the "boss of Zulsdorf".

My impressions are the same as your impressions. (I have an ELCA minister in my family (my dad too, actually) and teach at an ELCA college)

I actually did not know that, thank you. I

Bookmarking this so I can give it to my students (especially the Windows users). I really prefer getting PDFs for the digital assignments I assign (as opposed to the endless stream of Word Docs and somewhat random formats that don't always open properly).

Thank you sincerely for bringing the science and expertise to this discussion.

See, now I want to experiment with this! I embroider too...I've bled on plenty of my own work. BUT I also costume, and not always myself. But I have yet to make anyone I'm pinning into a creation bleed (usually it's just me that bleeds, but I'm just like that...)

Yeah, the modeling community needs to be careful what they claim. I should know. I always end up having to put in a good paragraph about what's not in my magnetism models when I write something up. What am I not accounting for. Because it really matters to your results. With one of the models I use, turning on or…

Exactly! I'm coming at this from a physics perspective, and I've had people ask me why don't we just model everything perfectly. Because the most intricate models we have (the ones that start from first principles, but that are still so flawed it can't get the bandgap of GaAs right) requires 3-4 days to model 64…