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I must be getting old and cranky. "This is sort of awesome" seems like the most asinine opening to a magazine article ever written.
by hyperbovine 8y ago
I must be getting old and cranky. "This is sort of awesome" seems like the most asinine opening to a magazine article ever written.
- rb808 8y agoWelcome to the new world of journalism where no one pays subscriptions and writers mostly interns surviving on click bait.
- stephengillie 8y agoWhy pay for one person to misinterpret the events, when we have here a whole comment thread of people misinterpreting the events for free?
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoThe author is a physics professor, not an intern.
- Elrac 8y agoThe parent poster didn't suggest otherwise. Thanks for making me aware that the author is a prof! But I'm afraid that makes things even worse. As I see it, the writing quality is barely acceptable for an intern: it's so colloquial it almost buries the core message, and it's full of very irrelevant details. Two examples: (1) We're talking about straight vertical lifting from the start, so why bother giving the formula that considers the angle of the force vector? (2) why analyze the energy flow of stacking barrels when the most straightforward implementation (as discussed later) deals with simply lifting barrels some height above ground level? This article could have been more clear and more approachable after editing it down to half the text.
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoThis reads more like a blog post to me, given that it would be challenging to embed that YouTube video in a magazine.
- newsbinator 8y ago> What? Yup. There's no reason "What? Yup." belongs as the third sentence in an article. Really? Yes.