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Extra Credit Opportunity
Kurt Friehauf
Yet
Another
Extra Credit Opportunity!
The Kutztown University
Student Government provides the campus with a subscription to the New
York Times -
which is truly extraordinary! This kind of thing is something I'd
expect the Stanfords and Harvards of the world to do, but huge kudos
go
to Kutztown for doing this!!
Tuesday's edition always
contains a section just on science, so I hope
you're at least looking that over. This being the New
York Times,
there is also good coverage of science in the main body of the paper on
other days (at least compared to any other newspaper!) I strongly
encourage you to read the paper and will give two points of extra
credit applied to the next exam to the first two people who show me
articles in the New
York Times reporting new events in geology. This offer is
good until a total of 100 points have been distributed in the
class.
For example, the paper had an
article titled Study
Links Extinction Cycles to Changes in Earth’s Orbit and Tilt about the relationship between
Milancovic cycles and periodic extinctions of mammals. The first
two students who would have alerted me to this would each have received
two extra credit points on their next exam! Similarly, the first
reports of the big Hawaii earthquake would have counted.
Follow-up articles reporting the amount of damage in Hawaii, etc.,
however, do not count.
Talk about shooting photos of fish in a bucket!
All you have to do is read the newspaper and show me the articles about
geology!
p.s., You might as well read some of the other stuff that's in there
while you're looking!