interesting tidbits of info

Things I learned (if they're accurate) during student presentations this semester:

Colorado typically has 300 days of sunshine a year.

The alleged reason that the society of Easter Island is no more is because they based their entire system on natural resources, namely wood, for economics, fuel, etc., and they ran out of wood.

For a comparable fourteen-mile bus ride, it takes 90 minutes on a public bus in Colorado Springs, but only 45 minutes for the same in Denver.

Professional Golf Management (PGM) majors are a unique breed of odd ducks that makes me wonder if they ever all find jobs.

Seven out of ten adults in the US is overweight or obese.

When a cell goes through natural cell death and was infected with a virus, it expels the virus out into the body. And this might be prevented one day with zinc.

Nevada allows prostitution but only in cities at or below 400,000 in population. This is why Vegas doesn't have legal prostitution.

I wish I had the body of this girl in one of my classes. Her stomach was totally flat. Ugh.

Old movie trailers are incredibly odd, funny, and a little racist. The one for Sudden Impact with Clint Eastwood had a black dude with a mini-fro on it. The dude had three short lines, and in those three short lines, they made him say "Sucka" twice and "Say what" once.

Thinking about the future of computer science/technology or about the processes that go on in a person's body both make me exhausted and make my head feel like it's going to explode.

There is a law on the books in Colorado against "promoting sexual immorality." Just think about all the people that could be prosecuted under that law.

Two people that you thought would grow out of themselves never did: The hyperactive jittery nerd who thinks he's funny but really isn't and the angry bitter nerd who takes his misery at being a nerd out on the rest of the world with disdain and disrespect. They're both in one of my classes.

At some restaurants, when you tip the waiter, that waiter has to then tip the bartenders, barbacks, busboys, etc…. meaning that the waiter makes like $4/hr and then your crappy tip has to be split amongst several people.

I have a student who is Irish. Or Scottish. He spoke for the first time this week. Imagine the class's surprise when he got up for his presentation.