I spend time highlighting how my past experience relates to the job and what I like about the place or job specifically. Depending on the vibe in the room I will add one quick, interesting, and nonoffensive thing about my personal life at the end. Basically recapping a cover letter but in a personable way because my writing is dry
Slatlun
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Yes, if I said "hand me the scissors" it would just be one tool with two blades. I could also say "hand me a pair of scissors" to mean the same thing. Kind of like how "pair of pants" or "pair of glasses" mean just one of those items. For reference, I am from the US. Not sure if you meant English as the country or as the language. Either way, those usages are nonsense and I will happily keep using them.
Scissor and scissors are interchangeable and mean the same thing. I agree that dropping the plural hurts my brain a little though
Way better: 37% of 72 = 72% of 37
(Or any other numbers)
Came here to say this too
My mom was going for a math degree when I was around that age. I was naturally curious about what she was studying. What stuck with me though has been ways of thinking and concepts. It has been a really good thing for me in real life as well as academically.
My suggestion would be to focus on concepts and lean hard on why. The practical 'how' is something that takes lots of time to learn and is incremental (addition then subtraction and so on). The why can be highlighted in movement, natural shapes, thoughts on time/light/infinity, and things like that.
Calculus specifically I would approach by asking how many sides does a ball have. Is it one, zero, or too many to count? The 'right' answer doesn't matter in this context. The important part is to learn that they all kind of mean the same thing if you think about them in different ways. Calculus uses thinking about it as too many to count to answer questions that are hard to answer when you think about it as zero.
I am surprised a city would have a rule against seeds. Their industrial composting should be good enough to kill seeds. That said, boiled seeds should be super dead.
I am curious- what veggie scraps you use that have seeds?
If that's true why aren't the sugar water pools in rainbow order. Folks, let's not get tricked by fake news. The real threat is rainbows and, of course, double rainbows.
Totally, my union got us bonuses in our last negotiations. The lower your salary the higher your bonus. The only way to have it be fair at all as I see it.
That would perfect for sure! It pays to keep lab equipment around some times :)
https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/soil-texture-analysis-the-jar-test/ a better description and photos
I just don't get the conclusion of all of the biosolids articles. They all point to upstream sources as problems then claim we should do something about them only in biosolids. Our wastewater reflects what we allow in our houses and bodies.
Why doesn't it ever go like this: "Micro plastics are bad. Our wastewater is telling us that we are creating micro plastics in our homes from the products we buy and use. Let's stop producing products that force people to make micro plastics."
My guess - the cost of wastewater treatment falls on all of us. We pay for it all, and it isn't cheap. The most effective option is source control, so let's make cradle to grave responsibility for the megacorp producers and watch how fast harmful products get yanked.