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[–] bored_boar_onboard@lemmy.world 133 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the opening paragraph from ‘States of Matter’:

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

That opening goes pretty fucking hard.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

University Physics sucks but physical chemistry is all Boltzmann all the time and it's so awful

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

economics has a million texts by a million econ professors and a few good ones by greg mankiw

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 72 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the older the meme gets the more it seems to dissipate into low res and compression artifacts. It's like a fading memory

[–] Fla@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

As is the way. Soon it will be your turn to screenshot this image, print it out and take a photo you can share with others online ❤️

[–] protist@mander.xyz 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A Dog Called Kitty 😭 4th grade

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I loved that book!

[–] fascicle@leminal.space 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Goodnight moon, not me but baby, got carried away saying bye to everything while sleepy and delusional

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

My baby you’ll be, or some such did me in as a parent who lost their mother. I’m not good to read that one.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago
[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have that book. It has an absolute ton of practice problems. They were not very helpful for my electricity & magnetism final!

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Yup. Study the past papers, not the textbook.

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Never cried reading a book. And I read a ton. Cry with music, TV, and movies. Never books though. Weird. Never thought about it.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you read University Physics by Young?

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Freedman. Feel like its appropriate to mention his name for some reason.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Well, sure, but Freedman only joined several years and editions after my copy of the book was printed so I only learned about him today and in my mind the book is still just University Physics by Young, sorry about that.

[–] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I cried reading Peoject Hail Mary lol

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Try reading them in bed laying on your back. When you fall asleep and drop them on your face, the heavy ones will make you cry.

[–] braxy29@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've read the giving tree recently and i must say, it kinda makes me angry, but not so much because of its sad story, but because i think that that is not a good way of life. you can't give away your life, i think, and you shouldn't look at yourself like a candle that is pre-destined to burn down through its course.

i believe that to truly live well, one must always live as if one had a very long life and must be sustainable in any action. this includes not giving away parts of your life that don't regrow. that is why the giving tree made me so angry.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I very much agree. It is held up as this wonderful parable of how you should live. It's the sort of thing that the powerful use to take advantage and abuse the weak.

This kind of puerile shit is bad for children and is just like a lot of the Jesus crap that gets pounded into kids.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

There it is. Thanks. Couldn’t remember this little heart stomper’s name.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago
[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

2 kinds of people.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Way to explain the joke, Roger.

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Burch