Kind of similar when Scott finished his PhD and was teaching night classes at UM-Flint, over an hour away after working full days closer to home. I think Mom thought he would soon be wearing tweed, smoking a pipe, and we would be entertaining university presidents and the the intellectual elite.
That’s hilarious!
This hot highway has a buckle in the road. Why do solids expand when heated? How far would a car jump? What does this do to traffic?
For me, everytime I see “the data says” or the data indicates" it looks/sounds like a typo to me. 
It’s all in what you were immersed in. My science undergraduate and graduate education took place in a time when everyone was anal about treating data as a plural, so for me, that is what sounds correct.
I don’t care all that much at this point, but while usage is in flux, it can be annoying.
AI does a pretty good job of that.
Let’s see, to make this about science, I could ask if anyone has a scientific reason why that was in the Collins English Dictionary as an example of a limerick, or, could anyone really mistake plaster of Paris for bath salts? 
Except he never said “set”, he just used “data” as singular: “The data from this study shows…”
It’s interesting that some drivers are paying enough attention that they see the bump and slow for it while others are oblivious.
There was a back road near where I lived after university that had a buckle like that intermittently. It was on a curve, and if you knew it was there and steered just right you could catch air and cut the arc so you’d still land on the road. Once, though, someone hit it at speed who apparently didn’t know to watch for it, and landed off the road in the brush. The result was a car sitting in the brush when it plainly hadn’t driven on the ground to get there; it looked like it had been dropped there.
Many speed bumps can be hit at just the right speed and you barely notice them because the force imparted is just right for your shocks and springs to absorb. Go slower or faster and you’ll definitely feel it.
It’s important to remember, though, that the speed at which the bump can be hit is not a constant but rather depends on the mass of your car and how well your shocks and springs work.
Right – it depends on the frequency of your suspension too, what speed is best. Some bumps don’t go all the way to the edge of the pavement, so going off to the side so only one wheel hits the bump at a time helps too.
Wikipedia has an article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
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One of my big gripes about people out in the natural setting where I do conservation work is how often people bag their dog’s poop and then drop the bag along the trail! I tell people to just toss their dog’s poop into the brush if they’re not going to pack it out.
My mom loves that one, and sent it for us to play for our kids 
Good one.
What do you say to a banjo player wearing a three-piece suit?
Will the defendant please rise?
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