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The first sentence under the Asexual Reproduction section in my biology book:
quote: Imagine some of your fingers separating from your body, taking up life on their own, and eventually developing into entire copies of yourself. This would be an example of asexual reproduction: offspring derived from a single parent without genetic recombination.
Don't you hate it when the author's try to make a funny when talking about boring subjects?
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Imagine some of the biology textbook writers' heads separating from their bodies, taking up a life of their own, and eventually developing into entire copies of themselves so you'd have a million more crappy textbooks to read when they all learned to write again. AHHHHHHHH! Posts: 165 | Registered: Apr 2004
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the book we used in bio for non-majors class i took in the fall was written by 3 people who are professional text book writers. Frankly it was one of the worse text books i've ever been privledged to use.
Although this could be since it was for non-science majors. But come now, who has 5.5 credits to take electives?
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You guys have no idea what bad textbook writing really is. It's an odd example, but otherwise, there's nothing wrong with it.
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Last year our US history books didn't even really cover the Vietnam war. It went beyond it, but for taht it said "there was a police action in Vietnam from ______ to _______ many soldiers were killed."
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It's better than giving people ulcers about that algae that is taking over the Mediterrenean sea.
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quote:Last year our US history books didn't even really cover the Vietnam war. It went beyond it, but for taht it said "there was a police action in Vietnam from ______ to _______ many soldiers were killed."
there was more about the Vietnam war in my "Exploring the Visual Arts" class last year.
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Why am I not suprised that an art book would have a little more willing belief of a war happening than a US history book?
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"A stiff pig slipping down a straight playground slide might be considered to be moving like a particle; however, a tumbling tumbleweed would not, because different points inside it move in different directions."
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I saw a rigor mortis bulldog on the highway once. It must have gotten hit a second time because it was balanced on it's head, right shoulder, and front right leg.
It was interesting, but that's Arkansas for ya.
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This is why I love my medieval history textbook. Discussing the attempted sacking of Rome by Attila the Hun:
quote: According to one comtemporary account, Pope Leo, "an old man of harmless simplicity, venerable in his gray hair and majestic clothing," was suddenly and miraculously joined by St. Peter and St. Paul, swords in their hands and clad in bishops' robes. their appearance at this critical moment was especially noteworthy because both saints had been dead for nearly 400 years.
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I had a Poli Sci book once that had a half-page footnote on how the designated batter rule in the AL was ruining the game of baseball. It was a book on game theory, but apparently the authors had a bit of a grudge.
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For the repudiation of Attila by Pope Leo, my latin professor had a cartoon that had the pope spraying him with "Huns-Be-Gone."
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