Science mommies unite! At this playgroup, logic rules

[Godhumor]

By Jamila Bay
http://moms.today.com/_news/2011/05/12/6626991-science-mommies-unite-at-this-playgroup-logic-rules

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I learned that a local secular organization had a parenting group. I was willing to bet that nobody there would try to convince me that crystals arranged into a pyramid and placed near my computer monitor would “cure” the field of electromagnetic energy around my screen and make computing “safer” for my son.

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“If I get yelled at one more time for vaccinating,” lamented one mother, “I’m gonna jab the person with a rusty nail and see how long it takes before they either get lockjaw or run to get a tetanus shot!”

“Let’s be ‘The Rusty Nails!’” I suggested. “Science Mommies,” is what we agreed.

The membership rules are simple: We pledge to not take our medical advice from celebrities and Oprah show guests. We pledge to vaccinate our children, and to always ask for sources when presented with claims we aren’t familiar with. Then, we investigate what we've found.

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Love the membership rules. Really hope my wife and I can find something similar to this in Buffalo.

[struggle4progress]

1. Careful. You might end up staying in motels with weird rules!

The motel has 200 rooms consecutively numbered 1 to 200

Nobody but the management can lock or unlock doors at the motel, and the management handles doors exactly as follows:

On the first day, management locks all the room doors

On the nth day (1 < n <= 200), management goes around changing the locked-status of all the doors for rooms with numbers divisible by n: if the door was locked at the beginning of the day, the management unlocks it, while if the door was unlocked at the beginning of the day, the management locks it

So, for example, at the end of the 2nd day, all the odd-numbered doors are unlocked and all the even-numbered doors are locked. And at the end of the 3rd day, all the doors, with numbers divisible by 2 but not divisible by 3, are unlocked, as are all the doors, with numbers divisible by 3 but not divisible by 2; but all the other doors are locked

Which doors will you find locked, and which unlocked, at the end of the 200th day?

[Dr. Strange]

2. That sounds like a problem for squares.

:D

[struggle4progress]

4. +

Just wait until you meet the motel managers: they're a pair of identical twins, but one always tells the truth and the other always lies ...

[gkhouston]

6. And the menu in the dining room: always spaghetti, and they're one fork short. n/t

[Wait Wut]

3. WOO HOO!!!

I was just this minute finishing up an email to one of my very favorite people explaining to her why I have a pic of Steve Jobs as my profile pic on FB. Longish story...short version: I had planned to focus on an "intellectually sexy" person each week or so and because I was in the process of buying my new iMac, Mr. Jobs was first up.

Smart is sexy. Teach that to your children.

[mzteris]

5. sounds like some homeschoolers I know!

:thumbsup:!!