From December 16, 2015
If you still don’t believe me, that college is a waste of time and money, there are way too many young people in college, there are way too many colleges and universities, etc.–well, read on.
First, let me just give you, verbatim, the lead to this news story from Latinos Health.
“Can a zombie apocalypse really occur? [No] Tara Smith, an associate professor from Ohio’s Kent State University, is issuing an international call to action to fund and promote studies on how to prevent a possible zombie outbreak.” (http://www.latinoshealth.com/articles/13743/20151215/zombie-apocalypse-possibility-rise-infection-trigger-international-call-action-expert.htm )
Zombie-ism is also being studied at Cornell.
Apparently they don’t understand, at our glorious institutions of higher learning, that there is no such thing as a zombie. Well, hey, if you can study an imaginary thing like man-made Global Warming, you might as well study zombies, too.
All right, at the very bottom of the article they say they’re popularizing Science, and trying to capture public attention for needed scientific work, by tying it in with… zombies.
Uh, Prof, do your students know there’s no such thing as zombies? Have you made that clear to them? Betcha haven’t.
So here we are, a bunch of interllecturals, schnorring for public money, taxpayers’ money, so we can study zombies! Like we don’t already take in enough moola in tuition?
America would be twice as good a country with half as many universities.
Great graphic lol. Wonder if Mothman will be taking this course? As I ponder this, it occurs to me that this fits right in with the left’s agenda – making zombies out of our children. And what possible employment opportunities would this provide? Hmmm . . .
Ever since this hilarious little clip? Zombies DO EXIST!
Let me see if I can post this clip, it’s funny–and true!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/8fv5I2rmtuU?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Nope, didn’t work.
That’s so funny!
LOL Laura! Thanks 🙂
They both worked for me.
Lee, your lead-in article – comments disabled.
*sigh* Fixed it. Thanks for the heads-up.
I’m afraid to ask WordPress to fix it, lest they make the problem worse.
Rest assured – they would.
I know people whose favorite movies are the ones about zombies. Unreal!
You know it’s unreal, and I know it’s unreal–but do they?
Will there be lab work? If so, I really wish zombies really were real, really.
There was a time when colleges were institutions of serious learning. This is ridiculous.
I tried watching the “Walking Dead” program when it was the #1 show on TV – could not endure even one episode. Whenever a movie introduces zombies I’m out of there.
It’s a gold mine of horror cliches. I liked it better when Bob Hope tangled with the zombies.
I’m quite surprised that they have made a comeback. To me, zombie movies were always cheesy, schlockish and pointless. Want to make a scary movie? Put a saltwater croc’ in it. Watch The Ghost and the Darkness, which are the names given to two lions in a movie based on historic fact. Beats the heck out of some phony zombie movie.
“The Ghost and the Darkness”–yeah, that’s a good one. Based on the true story of “the man-eaters of Tsavo,” about a pair of young male lions who developed a taste for railroad workers.
As long as they stick to railroad workers, I’ll sleep ok at night. When they start branching into network engineers I’ll worry.
No kidding about this, motion sensing wildlife cameras have photographed a Jaguar in the mountains just south of my neighborhood. Jaguars were extinct in North America for roughly 100 years, but they seem to be making a comeback. I think I’ll start carrying a spray bottle when I go outside. Bad 200-300 LB. Kitty!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Jefe_(jaguar)
No one in New Jersey has ever been eaten by a jaguar.
That can change. When I bought this house, there was no disclosure of Jaguars living just a few miles away. 🙂
Mule Deer are very common around these parts and I assume that’s the big attraction for the Jaguar. It would be no problem at all for it to feed itself in the area. While the Jaguar is close, as the crow flies, it’s unlikely that it would ever come much nearer than 5 or so miles away from the neighborhood. That would involve crossing open land with few sources of concealment. There are plenty of deer near where El Jefe lives and a working cattle ranch with free-range cattle between here and there.
Just a second. What’s that rustling sound? Better go outside and check. Agggghhhhhh! 🙂
Is the zombie show phenomenon still happening? I have no idea, but as it stood ten years ago, I was astounded that well educated, working professionals were so taken by these shows that I thought were childish. It surprises me, not at all, that some college professor would take this negative fable credence.
I think too much exposure to “education” is a problem in itself.
The problem is exactly that; education itself has changed. I’m fortunate to have been in strictly technical fields of study, and have been spared the worst of it, but I do recall a college course which asked “how I feel” about the command structure of Cisco networking devices. I’ll tell you exactly how I feel; I feel like if I enter them correctly, the commands will do what ai want them to do. WTH do feelings have to do with programming a device that operates entirely in the realm of logic?
It’s infinitely worse as you step away from the technical world. I recently looked at an MBA program and the syllabus seemed very woke. I could pass that without breaking a sweat, but I think I’ll pass.
So many fields of study now have a totally unnecessary political spin on them.
Exactly. The last thing an engineering student needs is political indoctrination.
Yes, we just don’t want the bridge to fall down.
You’d be astounded to hear some of the crapola that comes up in engineering meetings.
That would be scary to hear.
The whole idea of engineering is to use fact based analysis of a problem to insure that whatever solution is chosen will be both effective and reliable. It’s not, as the saying goes, “rocket science”, but it does require understanding the principles, but also requires experience in order to see past the idealized solutions, and to see the real-world risks that actually exist.
For example, I was involved in the IT planning for a large building, which was sprawled out. The electrical engineer involved in the building design had all of the data transmission run through copper cabling. I pointed out to him that we had a lot of lightning strikes in the area and that a lightning strike near one of the distant extremes of the building could cause current to flow back through the copper cables and possibly damage networking equipment. The solution was to use fiber optic, and I politely insisted upon this, in a meeting with many attendees. The electrical engineer gulped slightly, and conceded my point, quite publicly.
It was engineer vs. engineer, and no, I didn’t win, but facts were the determinative factor and the users of that building were the ultimate winners. That was roughly 15 years ago, and that building is still functioning well, to this day, in spite of many monsoon seasons of lightning strikes.