This post created a bit on an uproar in FOUND magazine (www.foundmagazine.com) because it turns out that it has been previously posted on the web. So what. What I like about it is the weird way the elephant calls attention to the abstract nature of the exam question. What is a frictionless ramp? What is that 3 KG object doing hovering at the top of it? Even before the elephant, it represents the un self-aware kind of weirdness Lewis Carroll made fun of in his Alice books. I'd like to think the Oxford Don, Charles Dodgson would have found some merit in the logical doodlings; more likely, though, these are the kind of doodlings the undiscipline Oxford student Dodgson would have resorted to on an exam he was unprepared for.
Friday, December 28, 2007
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This post created a bit on an uproar in FOUND magazine (www.foundmagazine.com) because it turns out that it has been previously posted on the web. So what. What I like about it is the weird way the elephant calls attention to the abstract nature of the exam question. What is a frictionless ramp? What is that 3 KG object doing hovering at the top of it? Even before the elephant, it represents the un self-aware kind of weirdness Lewis Carroll made fun of in his Alice books. I'd like to think the Oxford Don, Charles Dodgson would have found some merit in the logical doodlings; more likely, though, these are the kind of doodlings the undiscipline Oxford student Dodgson would have resorted to on an exam he was unprepared for.
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