WITHOUT HANDS!

Sperm Discovered Doing Basic Calculus

(Thanks to Gregg in Austin)

Comments

[ligirl]

math is hard

[Theresa]

Here's our new science lesson for the day.Sperm like a dog wag their tails.

[Howard from Broward]

So the little fishies can do differentials. But can they do integral calculus? What about linear algebra? Inquiring minds wan to know.

[Howard from Broward]

Throw up a 't' at the end of 'wan'. Or just throws up.

[Meanie the Blue]

Watch out for the ones that can do analytic geometry.

[Gregg in Austin]

They also take cello lessons and do volunteer work with the elderly. All to ensure they can someday get in to the most prestigious schools.

[clankie]

So that's what those little slide rules are for.

[O the Umanity]

That foto enhanced by a stroboscopic light is really impressive ... that one in the bottom left corner looks like John Travolta ...

[Toto]

So.. apparently sperm are smarter than I am, because I can't do calculus at all!

[MikeyVA]

DANG! I could have used them in college in my calculus (otherwise known as death by a thousand cuts) class.

[Meanie the Blue]

And that is exactly how Isaac Newton started.

[Dan S.]

But can they say, "squirrel?"

[LeDud]

I don't see any articles about ova doing any math ! (will now retreat to area where women can't swat me....)

[Steve]

A fly got into our house last night and had the misfortune of irritating me.
I got after him with my trusty electrified tennis racquet but the first exposure was fleeting, or short-timed. It obviously had an effect but was not fatal.
A second, longer exposure had the desired effect and a couple of really cool sparks.
I can only conclude that the fly was reacting to a time derivative of exposure since the current was the same in both instances. The only difference was the time of exposure to a consistent level of current.
Flies can do calculus.
Of course, it kills them. Just like it does us.

[Cheesewiz]

or just maybe calculus and other math indignities were derived from natural processes that most other animals, except us, know about?

[MikeyVA]

Cheese,

I had to take 4 years of calculus in college. It Ain't a natural process.

[O the Umanity]

Calculi ... the etymological basis derives frum "bone" or "rock" or ... eventually ... "hard" ...

That's why Calculus is hard ... it's a language dealie, not a math dealie ...

[Ralph]

My brain calcified when I tried to do calculus in high school; I kept going off on a tangent.

[MikeyVA]

O,

I tried telling that to my multi variable calc prof. He laughed until he had to be resuscitated.

Ralph,

At least you weren't engaging in Sine.

[O the Umanity]

Actually, my excuse wuz often of the nature sumwhut like this:

Prof: "The answer should be intuitively obvious. See?"

Me: "Can't"

[Meanie the Blue]

Not naming names, but someone's getting a little hyperbolic here.

[MikeyVA]

O,

"That is intuitively obvious to the casual observer."

He thought this was funny. I wanted to bring a weapon to class after the 5th time he said that and laughed until he snorted.

[O the Umanity]

Hyperbole is the Soul of Wit ... or the Anathema ... I fergit which ...

MikeyVA ... I think that "intuitively obvious" line is endemic in Math instructors ... most of all I've ever encountered -- whether as a co-worker/teach, or in the adversarialness of the classroom, seem to think it's a great joke on the students ...

[MikeyVA]

O,
I wanted to beat him with my textbook.

[Kristina L]

I had math teachers who used "intuitively obvious" too. It never was.

Calculus actually isn't that bad if you have a good teacher. At the college I was at, there was a place you could go where other students who had taken the class would explain how to do the problems, and what they said actually made sense. It usually took a student about 5 minutes to explain it. The teacher would have stood up in class about an hour explaining the principle but never actually how to do the problems.