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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (6)	9/27/2006 5:55:30 PM
From: zebra4o1	Read Replies (1) of 62

I took undergraduate mineralogy with Ken Deffeyes. Thought he was a total nut job at the time. He never lectured on the course topics. Instead, he only wanted to talk about the magical catalytic properties of zeolites. Still pissed off when I think about this trick question he had on the final. You were given a crystal structure and were supposed to compute the specific gravity, and then guess what the mineral was. I kept getting a specific gravity slightly less than 1.0, which I assumed must be wrong - what mineral could be that light? Turned out it was ice! This should have been so obvious if I had just had a little more faith in my computations. Another stunt Deffeyes pulled was plotting our midterm scores against our math SAT scores. There was an amazing linear correlation, which he claimed proved he was an excellent instructor. (He was defending himself against a lot of student complaints.) Most of us thought the linear correlation proved just the opposite. Along with this plot, he had written in huge letters: "This college was founded by Presbyterians, and Presbyterians believe in predestination. Worry about that!" I've been meaning to read his peak oil book.

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