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If I'm understanding this right, up through Grade 10, the math courses you were taking were not AP courses and were not putting you on a...

I'm not sure that's true. As I said in response to the OP, the university might just expect to spend the student's freshman year...

But there are lots of institutions other than "top institutions" that give degrees in math and physics. Their graduates might not be the...

I'm more of a 20th-century travel writer slacker. My wife and I took the plane to New Zealand, with a stopover in Fiji. It was a pretty...

While not a frequency comb, a YouTube video explained how Disney lost a critical optical splitter that enabled them to create some...

At the top schools, maybe, but in general this group is smaller than the group of physics bachelor's students. A PhD in non-theoretical...

The reason for the AP courses was to solve a problem schools had with talented and gifted students. They were required to advance their...

We have a song in Texas sung to the Irish Washerwoman tune called: The Devil Made Texas written and sung by Hermes Nye And Ed...

I think they have plague too.

We obsess over tick borne Lime disease or some mosquito borne illness like Chickengunya or those rare critters rattlesnakes, coral...

Another way to say it is: Trust but verify. While we can’t test everything, we should test those things that we are skeptical of and...

There are a few good examples of people stressing out: - A person loses their phone or breaks it, causing the loss of contacts, photos...

Never trust a diagram sometimes they are close but often it could be a trick. Like making an equilateral triangle with angles of 70...

Yeah there also was a business of people cracking captchas for pennies allowing scammers access to captcha protected sites.

There was a documentary of Philippine workers who did content moderation for Facebook and other major sites. They suffered terribly...