Showing posts with label scientists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scientists. Show all posts

Friday, April 01, 2022

What happens if you put your head in a particle accelerator? Anatoly Bugorski

Long story short. The left half of Bugorski's face swelled up beyond recognition and, over the next several days, the skin started to peel, revealing the path that the proton beam had burned through parts of his face, his bone, and the brain tissue underneath. As it was believed that he had received far in excess of a fatal dose of radiation, Bugorski was taken to a clinic in Moscow where the doctors could observe his expected demise. 

However, Bugorski survived, completed his PhD, and continued working as a particle physicist.There was virtually no damage to his intellectual capacity, but the fatigue of mental work increased markedly. Bugorski completely lost hearing in the left ear, replaced by a form of tinnitus. The left half of his face was paralyzed due to the destruction of nerves. He was able to function well, except for occasional complex partial seizures and rare tonic-clonic seizures.

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Teachers Are Responsible For Students Growth


Just think of how many children go through school unhelped, leaving with problems and inadequacies that could have been remedied with a quick ironing-out by one of their teachers. The fact is that teachers have the ability to make their students better. Practically all teachers have the ability to make all of their students great at a subject - but that cannot be allowed to make sense.

If a student leaves the classroom or course still unable to understand related concepts, the teacher is as responsible for the failures as much as the student is. The teacher can change the student, a good one always does. The students are capable of teaching themselves, but then what are the teachers for?.. Great schools have great teachers. Great schools do not have bad teachers. Good teachers do not have bad students for long. Bad students are made good by good teachers. Bad students are the product of bad teachers, just as good students do not need a good teacher to be good. Bad students do not make good teachers bad. They are the teacher’s test.

Keep admonishing responsibility.


Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Why Human Classifications Are Stupid

Just a thought ..
If male and female cats and dogs are categorised by breed and race, does that not make you think that our classifications of humans, simplistically race or nationality, are incomplete and just wrong.