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Written by Prof. Sam Lawler on 2025-01-21 at 02:40

In case you need a silly distraction, my sibling found this book in a free library and sent me a picture. This has to be high in the running for "Best Physics Textbook Cover Ever"

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Written by Irenerd on 2025-01-21 at 02:41

@sundogplanets 🤣🤣🤣

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Written by LaDonna on 2025-01-21 at 02:43

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That's hilarious! 😂

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Written by Nick 🇨🇦 V13.9XXA Candidate on 2025-01-21 at 02:51

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Studying physics was cool man. Math was cooler.

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Written by Chris White on 2025-01-21 at 02:59

@sundogplanets I needed that book!

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Written by Ken Butler on 2025-01-21 at 03:09

@sundogplanets back in about this time, I lived in the UK, and the Open University had math professors that looked like the guy on the right. (This was in the days when the BBC didn't broadcast all night, and because I was a night owl, I watched Open University lectures because they used that spare broadcast time.)

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Written by David Mitchell :CApride: on 2025-01-21 at 03:35

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A bit of a tangent, but which are the not-free libraries?

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Written by Prof. Sam Lawler on 2025-01-21 at 03:40

@DavidM_yeg ohhhh yeah, I specifically meant those little boxes people set up with free books. Not a library-library...

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Written by David Mitchell :CApride: on 2025-01-21 at 03:58

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I see, what a perfectly wonderfully random thing to find in one of those!

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Written by dragonfrog on 2025-01-21 at 03:41

@DavidM_yeg @sundogplanets any that charge an annual membership fee, or attach access to employment or payment of tuition, I guess. (I've been a member of all three kinds)

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Written by David Mitchell :CApride: on 2025-01-21 at 03:59

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touché

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Written by Of Bookish Things on 2025-01-21 at 03:44

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After further thought, Jim Henson changed his major to Puppetry.

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Written by Wyatt H Knott on 2025-01-21 at 03:44

@sundogplanets bUT BUT they could have EASILY switched the text bubbles so they read in the correct order

[#]petpeeve

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Written by Eye on 2025-01-21 at 08:14

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Great! 😅

Such a beautiful old BSA bike. Can't quite make out which model but it might be an old single cylinder one 🤔

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Written by :🍪:Semele on 2025-01-21 at 10:26

@grb090423 @sundogplanets That old BSA logo just leapt out at me🧡

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Written by Eye on 2025-01-21 at 10:37

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Yes! I've not seen one for a long time 🙂👍

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Written by WesDym on 2025-01-21 at 11:05

@sundogplanets I originally presumed this might be a comb-bound photocopy of an original work, with a little artistic license by whomever did it, but I looked up the book, and believe this is original.

This book was printed (probably in this form) at Springfield (Mass.) College in 1973. The joke might well be the author's own, and likely plays on popular academic stereotypes of college 'hippies' of the time. The implication being that math is 'cool'. Which of course it is.

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Written by WesDym on 2025-01-21 at 11:12

@sundogplanets How it was made:

The card cover was made in sepia on manila cardstock by an offset process. The black text is an offset overlay. (2nd pass) The original 'talk box' text was typed -- looks like 12-pitch Elite to me. The talk balloons were hand-drawn around the typed text as part of the overlay image, along with all the text. The image could have come from anywhere, but possibly from that campus. (You'd have to look inside to see if there's a credit, but there may not be.)

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Written by Phracker on 2025-01-21 at 17:48

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It reads like a manga too.

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Written by Steve Gisselbrecht on 2025-01-21 at 19:40

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There is an INSANE video from the same era that's shown in intro bio classes in which hippies run around a field illustrating protein synthesis with a voiceover description based on Jabberwocky.

Same energy.

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