Not at home, no. It refuses to cooperate with all the anti-scripting I run.
Not at home, no. It refuses to cooperate with all the anti-scripting I run.
This place is all about the word STEM because STEM, STEM, STEM! STEM STEM STEM, STEM STEM! They toss it around like pigeon droppings on the statue of the mayor. They promote it, it's great, we're all about STEM!
Of course, you probably guessed that it's a bunch of old people using the word because it's a 15 year-old buzzword that they latched on to, and don't really have any idea of what it really means. Except for a few tiny little companies on the forefront of some niche technology, the entire campus area consists of technologies that are so mature they could apply for AARP benefits and get denied because no one can be that old.
Well, during this lunch, they had a couple of tables full of "STEM" materials to demonstrate technology to everyone.
I saw:
A radiometer. An ancient Craftsman multimeter. I'm talking 1990s era. Some stopwatches. A bunch of extremely old high-school physics lab devices, some of which I couldn't identify. A glass barometer demonstration tube of the kind you get at the gift shop and it says "WORLD'S BIGGEST HOLE" A bunch of 3rd-grade physics demonstration stuff like a wheel you put on a string and it stays balanced. etc, etc, etc.
There was literally nothing in that display that said technology. Nothing. I've discarded nicer stuff because it was unusable. I have no idea where they would even have found some of that stuff, it's that old and that obsolete.
The device in my picture, at least I could turn that on and demonstrate a measurement for you that has a real-world application, but nothing on that table (save maybe the meter) was of any use in anything other than a "why are you keeping that" sense. That ancient tube device is newer than most of what they had there.
They think they are high-tech, but in reality they're Dunning-Kruger in motion.
This place is all about the word STEM because STEM, STEM, STEM! STEM STEM STEM, STEM STEM! They toss it around like pigeon droppings on the statue of the mayor. They promote it, it's great, we're all about STEM!
Of course, you probably guessed that it's a bunch of old people using the word because it's a 15 year-old buzzword that they latched on to, and don't really have any idea of what it really means. Except for a few tiny little companies on the forefront of some niche technology, the entire campus area consists of technologies that are so mature they could apply for AARP benefits and get denied because no one can be that old.
Well, during this lunch, they had a couple of tables full of "STEM" materials to demonstrate technology to everyone.
I saw:
A radiometer.
An ancient Craftsman multimeter. I'm talking 1990s era.
Some stopwatches.
A bunch of extremely old high-school physics lab devices, some of which I couldn't identify.
A glass barometer demonstration tube of the kind you get at the gift shop and it says "WORLD'S BIGGEST HOLE"
A bunch of 3rd-grade physics demonstration stuff like a wheel you put on a string and it stays balanced.
etc, etc, etc.
There was literally nothing in that display that said technology. Nothing. I've discarded nicer stuff because it was unusable. I have no idea where they would even have found some of that stuff, it's that old and that obsolete.
The device in my picture, at least I could turn that on and demonstrate a measurement for you that has a real-world application, but nothing on that table (save maybe the meter) was of any use in anything other than a "why are you keeping that" sense. That ancient tube device is newer than most of what they had there.
They think they are high-tech, but in reality they're Dunning-Kruger in motion.
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