[Max Sterling]

I am SO homeschooling my kids.

[Bobboau]

did he intentionaly misspell things?
not that I have any room to criticise

[Stunaep]

Doesn't tell me anything I didn't know before.

Once again the moral of the story is: Pretty chicks, emigrate to Estonia. We need some extra population here.

[Flaser]

We have everything here.

From a wind-tunnel to an atom reactor.

Budapest University of Technology and Economics (a recent faculty) is one of the best places to study IMHO.

[J3Vr6]

Meanwhile you got Dave Matthews Band donating 1 million to New York schools when he should be donating it to the state w/ the lowest grades.  Just cuz he's from NY or something doesn't mean you can only be charitable there.

Public schools are really in need of revamping.  In Florida they put in the FCAT, which is an exam that measures what you've learned to what you should have learned by that year.  Basically means that students have to take a comprehensive exam at the end of the year to see if they pass to the next grade.  It doesn't matter if they were getting B's in their classes (I think A students are exempt, not sure), if they fail the SAT-style test they have to stay in that grade.

It's supposed to be that by 2012 or something all students should be reading at their grade level, which is something that Florida really is missing the ball on.

I'm so glad I didn't have to worry about that 10 years ago.

[Woolie Wool]

Yeah, I think Mississippi needs help. It's sort of like a Third World country within the United States.

[karajorma]

I once saw an episode of the Open University in which the demonstrated the reactivity of the alkali metals.

First they dropped lithium in the water. - it fizzed and bubbled a little like an alka-seltzer.

Then they dropped in sodium & potassium which caught fire much as everyone else has said.

That's where the experiments usually stop in schools cause they have already demonstrated that the alkali metals get more reactive as they go down the series. The OU however hadn't had enough yet. So they got some rubidium out and put that in the water. The flames were even more impressive and IIRC the water even started to boil close to where the metal went in.

At this point most sane people would stop but the OU decided to get out some Cesium. At this point is worth noting that the person doing the experiment was no longer visible on camera. Instead you saw a pair of long handled tongs appear on camera. The second the cesium hit the water there was a loud bang and the water trough shattered.

I think that was when I decided I wanted to study chemisty