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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Bozos Synonymous
- Message-ID: <Bxo8Gz.9xv@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 20:19:45 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.194922.15@pro-palmtree.socal.com> <1992Nov13.121426.13419@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> <KOSOWSKY.92Nov13133102@phoneme.harvard.edu>
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- kosowsky@phoneme.harvard.edu (Jeffrey J. Kosowsky) writes:
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- >Talking about making money from "crop circles"...
- >Here at Harvard, I have seen numerous posters plastered on bulletin
- >boards throughout the campus advertising the following:
-
- > Crop Circle
- > Lecture / Slide Show
- > with George Wingfield
- > Director, Field Research
- > Center for Crop Circle Studies, Somerset England
-
- >The event is *not* being held on camput but rather at a local church.
- >Furthermore, they are *charging* 10 dollars a ticket!
-
- >Who is this most Bozo of Bozos who can command 10 dollars for the
- >chance to hear him drivel psycho-pseudo-science. Also what is this
- >so-called "Center for Crop Circle Studies?"
- >Do they have any openings for post-docs or for junior faculty tenure
- >track positions? :.)
-
- >Jeff Kosowsky
-
- You think that "crop circles" character is something. Wait till
- you read "Sexual Personae" by Camille Paglia! Lots of complete
- nonsense about how mathematics is done, and mathematicians
- think!
-
- I defy this lady to explain why the derivative of x^2 is 2x. Meanwhile
- she's making zillions, and I'm scrambling for pennies in graduate
- school.
-