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Post #1971905
2026-04-18 12:19 UTC
@GetzlerChem Sounds very good. I like the choose-your-own-adventure approach. Our plan is rather more linear but I'm probably now too old to contemplate creating a new module. Yet the idea of having a flexible component like that would be interesting.
My angle is start with a Fermi approach to build in orders of magnitude with ideas filched from "Spherical Cow" and elsewhere. And then go through challenges/ consequences oceanic, liminic, atmospheric and so on. We'll see.
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@GetzlerChem@mstdn.science 2026-04-18 14:53
@sellathechemist Thank you for the kind words. Spherical Cow is a great approach that I’ve been meaning to incorporate myself. I think that, like many courses, it sounds good in theory and, in practice, is highly dependent each time on the mysterious combination of my and the students’ momentary energies, abilities, passions, etc. Some projects are transcendent (e.g. a heroic crown of sonnets featuring data from a theoretical paper on fusion). Others are decidedly less so.