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Sperm Discovered Doing Basic Calculus
(Thanks to Gregg in Austin)
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Sperm Discovered Doing Basic Calculus
(Thanks to Gregg in Austin)
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math is hard
Posted by: ligirl | March 12, 2012 at 07:24 PM
Here's our new science lesson for the day.Sperm like a dog wag their tails.
Posted by: Theresa | March 12, 2012 at 07:24 PM
So the little fishies can do differentials. But can they do integral calculus? What about linear algebra? Inquiring minds wan to know.
Posted by: Howard from Broward | March 12, 2012 at 07:35 PM
Throw up a 't' at the end of 'wan'. Or just throws up.
Posted by: Howard from Broward | March 12, 2012 at 07:35 PM
Watch out for the ones that can do analytic geometry.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | March 12, 2012 at 08:17 PM
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.
Posted by: Gregg in Austin | March 12, 2012 at 09:56 PM
So that's what those little slide rules are for.
Posted by: clankie | March 12, 2012 at 10:56 PM
That foto enhanced by a stroboscopic light is really impressive ... that one in the bottom left corner looks like John Travolta ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | March 12, 2012 at 10:58 PM
So.. apparently sperm are smarter than I am, because I can't do calculus at all!
Posted by: Toto | March 13, 2012 at 12:46 AM
DANG! I could have used them in college in my calculus (otherwise known as death by a thousand cuts) class.
Posted by: MikeyVA | March 13, 2012 at 07:15 AM
And that is exactly how Isaac Newton started.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | March 13, 2012 at 07:47 AM
But can they say, "squirrel?"
Posted by: Dan S. | March 13, 2012 at 08:39 AM
I don't see any articles about ova doing any math ! (will now retreat to area where women can't swat me....)
Posted by: LeDud | March 13, 2012 at 08:58 AM
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.
Posted by: Steve | March 13, 2012 at 09:32 AM
or just maybe calculus and other math indignities were derived from natural processes that most other animals, except us, know about?
Posted by: Cheesewiz | March 13, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Cheese,
I had to take 4 years of calculus in college. It Ain't a natural process.
Posted by: MikeyVA | March 13, 2012 at 10:46 AM
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 ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | March 13, 2012 at 11:02 AM
My brain calcified when I tried to do calculus in high school; I kept going off on a tangent.
Posted by: Ralph | March 13, 2012 at 11:41 AM
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.
Posted by: MikeyVA | March 13, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Actually, my excuse wuz often of the nature sumwhut like this:
Prof: "The answer should be intuitively obvious. See?"
Me: "Can't"
Posted by: O the Umanity | March 13, 2012 at 12:50 PM
Not naming names, but someone's getting a little hyperbolic here.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | March 13, 2012 at 01:06 PM
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.
Posted by: MikeyVA | March 13, 2012 at 01:14 PM
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 ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | March 13, 2012 at 01:49 PM
O,
I wanted to beat him with my textbook.
Posted by: MikeyVA | March 13, 2012 at 05:19 PM
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.
Posted by: Kristina L | March 17, 2012 at 11:15 PM