Monday, January 28, 2013

Today's quiz question for TBG was: What is your favorite axiom?

Friday, January 25, 2013

Actually, that last link seems to require you to enter via this one and then click on view animation. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/JourneyToHeliopauseAnimation.html
For those wondering about the argument I made concerning the movement of the Sun here is a visual: javascript:openNASAWindow('http://mfile.akamai.com/18565/wmv/etouchsyst2.download.akamai.com/18355/wm.nasa-global/IBEX/GSFC_20081003JourneyToHeliopause.asx ')

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The quiz question for my Introduction to the Humanities II class today was: what is your favorite word. You may wish to describe why you made that choice.
Since the new semester has started and I promised to post my class quizzes here I have some to catch up on. All four of my classes shared the same first quiz which was: What are the ten commandments? Some described what the phrase refers to but the task was to write as many of them as you remembered before looking them up to satisfy your curiosity. For those interested in my favorites they are posted here: http://wsjamison.uaa.alaska.edu/Favcmds.htm and for my set of correct answers and comments on them I have a page posted here: http://wsjamison.uaa.alaska.edu/cmdstats.htm For my Introduction to Philosophy classes the second quiz was: Imagine Jesus arrives at your door. You know it is him and that he is God. He tells you to sell all you have, give the money to the poor, and come follow him. Question: do you go with him or do you refuse, argue, or what? The third question for my Introduction to Philosophy courses is (or will be) do you have a soul? If so, what is it?