Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "" video.

  1. A true story, though coming to you third-hand. Modern Physics class (for majors), preparing for a lab where the students will be using radioactive button sources. The professor is trying to contextualize the risk of the radiation dose the students will be receiving and explains that tons of things in life are radioactive, such as bananas. A student (who I'm told was generally very bright) turns pale, raises their hand. "But Professor!" the student says, "My boyfriend loves bananas! Are you saying I'm getting irradiated from him?" The professor, without missing a beat, says, "Well, dosage goes as 1/r^2." (the joke, for you non-physicists, is that the "more intimate" the student and their SO were, the higher the (minuscule) radiation exposure) Also: I have a "Squishable" (precursor to Squishmallows) spherical cow I got in college. His name is Maxwell Bessel.
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