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Comment Why is this an English course? (Score 2, Insightful) 118

Does anyone else find it odd that this is a Junior-level college course in English, and the course is limited to zombie movies and comic books? If you want to study zombie movies, go to film studies. I can accept using zombie comic books, but few, if any, zombie comic books I've seen would qualify as quality literature. (Yes, some comic books do qualify as quality literature, just not those.) The real travesty for these students is that this course could actually be leveraging an interest in zombies to actually study good literature, like World War Z, the Zombie Survival Guide, the zombie Jane Austen books, and various fiction books from different eras in the evolution of the modern zombie. (The history of the zombie concept is quite the story.) Instead, they get to watch movies and read comic books.

Comment Re:Mathematicians are gathering to vet this paper (Score 1) 147

Really, can't a very similar argument be applied to nearly every field of applied knowledge? Mathematics is a model for how the universe works; all practical science is just applied mathematics in some form or another. Music, anthropology, biology, conspiracy theories--they can all be described as applications of mathematics.

Comment Re:iSlate name (Score 1) 195

Regardless of any functionality this phone will have, it only takes a very short time to come up with the "if-one" pronunciation of iPhone. I can't imagine that Jobs would let anything that could be turned into a such an obvious mockery of Apple be released. I have no idea what the phone will be called, but I am betting heavily against "iPhone" - and yes I have been following all the reports on companies being purchased etc.

There, fixed it for you. We are as dedicated to exploring ways in which product names can be twisted as we were about making fun of our classmates' names back in kindergarten.

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