saw a post that claims that STEM smart people are smarter than humanities smart people because “any math student who speaks english can flip through an english book and understand it, but i’d like to see an english student do college math.” i have to say 1. holy disingenuous comparison batman, and 2. as someone who ta’d the english side of an english/biology fusion class, no the fuck they cannot. forget a collegiate level, we were struggling to teach these STEM major upperclassmen how to identify what’s on the page and articulate the themes on a high school level. the course texts were two YA novels and a handful of short stories. meanwhile all the humanities students were chugging through the biochemistry at what my colleague reported was an extremely respectable level. turns out that understanding what you’re reading is a skill just like any other, AND one with transferable applications
ah shoot the post i dashed off in a moment of annoyance is getting notes. i want to CLARIFY that none of the STEM students i taught were bad people. by and large they were all bright and dedicated students who just had lost some of the skills the hadn’t had reason to exercise since high school. i’m a huge fan of interdisciplinary study, among other reasons because it was only through this interdisciplinary course that these STEM students were able to relearn how to write a five paragraph essay and these humanities students were able to relearn the function of ATP—our skills atrophy when we don’t use them, and often we don’t have reason to use them unless we can approach it through a language of learning we already know and like. the answer is more communication and more study, from all backgrounds to all backgrounds. it’s certainly not more enemies
OP: A seasoned clothing insider with 16 years experience takes you shopping and shows you how to pick the right clothes—details that show the clothes aren’t worth the price. (cr 多多服装经)
2 O Lord? Will You forget me to the end? How long will You turn Your face from me? 3 How long will I take counsel in my soul, Having grief in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? 4 Look upon me and hear me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep in death, 5 Lest my enemy say, “I prevailed against him”; Those who afflict me greatly rejoice, if I am shaken. 6But I hope in Your mercy; My heart shall greatly rejoice in Your salvation; I will sing to the Lord, who shows kindness to me; I will sing to the name of the Lord Most High.
NOTES Ps 13 describes both Jews and Gentiles who say in their hearts, “There is no God” (v. 1; see also Rom 3:9–18). For although they may claim to know God, nevertheless, they are actually denying He exists, because of (1) their total involvement in a state of moral depravity (vv. 1, 3); (2) their refusal to seek God (v. 2); (3) their persecution of God’s righteous people (vv. 4–6); and (4) their denial of the Incarnate God, the Lord Jesus Christ (v. 7).
Ps 13 is used in the Ninth Royal Hour of Great and Holy Friday, the hour of Christ’s death on the cross. Portions of vv. 1 and 3 form the prokeimenon before the reading from Jeremiah.
Thomas Nelson. The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today’s World (p. 778). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Fun fact: In Japan, a cultivar of yellow orchid was created in the 90s and was named “Happy Valley Sailor Moon.”
It’s a hybrid flower that was named after Sailor Moon because the botanist who created it, Shigeru Makoto Kono, thought that the flower’s yellow color matched the color of Usagi’s hair. Naoko Takeuchi herself received these flowers and was so happy with them she decided to incorporate them in several artworks (as revealed in the linear notes of Sailor Moon Artbook Volume 5).
Other authors: My heroine was a poor orphan. Pity her.
Jane Austen: Pft, orphans have it easy! My heroine has two living parents and three extra guardians and all of them are the worst…
Jane Austen writing the Pride & Prejudice Netherfield Ball: Right now, Elizabeth Bennet wishes she was an orphan
Jane Austen, writing Persuasion & Emma: This heroine is half an orphan and, of course, I killed the competent one off. The resulting situation is so much worse than if I’d killed them both
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