This witty comic displays the plight and humors of graduate students. It is a tremendous stress reliever and a necessity in every campus book store.
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: This sounds like spam me, but nonetheless I’ll point out that the homepage is at www.phdcomics.com I’ll leave it to readers to order compilations from the Gothic if they don’t already have copies.
What qualifications does an american citizen need to be a teacher in england and wales. How do I get them?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Here’s a web page from England with details about how non-citizens can teach: http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachinginengland/index.cfm
One other agency it refers to is the National Academic Recognition Information Centre:
http://www.naric.org.uk/
They apparently determine whether someone’s qualifications from another country are accepted for teaching in the UK.
Are the brown spots on bananas unhealthy to eat?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: If the spots are on the peel they might be unpleasant, but probably not unhealthy, to eat. If decomposition has set in on the white flesh of the fruit, I’d treat it like any food that’s going bad. “Spots” sound worse than just normal overripening, where it gets all dark and mooshy and you make banana bread out of it (or let it ferment into banana wine). Since answering this question seriously borders on medical advice, AP recommends that you consult a health professional, nutritionist, or biologist.
Does tandoori chicken refer to the spices or the cooking technique?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Seemingly, both or neither. It’s named for being cooked in a tandoor (a traditional clay pot-like oven). This can be fudged by cooking at a very high temperature in other types of ovens. Despite being named for the high-temperature cooking device, the recipes share some common features, so it’s safe to assume that it wouldn’t be tandoori chicken if it didn’t meet the basic look and taste criteria.
The recipes all call for the chicken to be red, but the marinade varies. Annatto is one traditional method to color it. Sometimes alternatively or additionally chili powder or saffron or tumeric. The base of the marinade is yoghurt. Judging from the huge variety of recipes out there, the ingredients are flexible, even in traditional Indian recipes.
I set a goal of reading a number of books in a particular time period. I miscalculated and will have no chance of finishing all the books. Those that I do not finish, I will have to leave where I am. What should I do? I feel like leaving these unread books is a huge waste, and shipping them is infeasible. Should I skim as many as I can get through?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: You mean you’re reading multiple books simultaneously? That’s the first problem. Part of the Big Lie is that multitasking is a wonderful thing, but, in fact, maybe it’s just forced upon us to make us do more work.
Too many even to ship? If you’re in the USA, you might consider Book Rate (aka Special 4th Class rate) from the Post Office or else truck freight. Good books should be worth the shipping cost. Alternatively, can’t you get the books at a library wherever you’re going? Just make notes of where you left off. You’ll have to decide whether any of the books are only worthy of being skimmed. I would never, ever do this with fiction (just read Cliff’s notes or something). Maybe for a heavily illustrated non-fiction book you could just read the captions.
What is the only word in the English language that completely changes it’s meaning just by capitalizing the first letter?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Oh-oh … is this a dirty joke? AP doesn’t do those. Or maybe it’s a question intended for Marilyn Savant in Parade Magazine rather than for Answer Person. Seems to me there must be a whole lot of proper names that refer to the place or person when capitalized and to something else when not. march (hup, two, three, four) vs March (in like a lamb, out like a lion). Those are both English words.
Actually, I think the stock answer to this one is “polish” (make it shine) vs “Polish” (language or adjectival form of the Eastern European country). Maybe the clue needs to be more complete, like mentioning how the pronunciation changes.
Can people in Puerto Rico dial the same 1800 numbers for free that we can on the mainland?
Also, is Puerto Rico part of the US? For instance, when you say that the population of the USA is such and such, does that include Puerto Rico? Or does it include residents only or American citizens only?
Thanks.!
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: AP can’t get an official statement on toll-free numbers from the FCC (they won’t communicate with me for national security reasons), but based on the number of toll-free numbers that can be called from Puerto Rico and some other outlying regions, I assume that these numbers work from those places.
The US Census collects data for states as well as for outlying territories such as Puerto Rico. If you see a total for the US, a good source should have a footnote to say what it includes. They often include the 50 states plus DC and list the population of other possessions separately.
The Census legally includes everyone that’s physically in a location on April 1, so it’s supposed to include citizens, legal residents, and illegal aliens. Whether they can accurately count all these people who don’t want to be counted is another matter.
Puerto Rico is a US possession, although it’s not one of the “states” in “United States.” It’s classed as a Commonwealth, which may be just the US term for a colony, or else some other limbo area that’s neither part of the US (they have their own Olympic teams) nor completely independent (they pay US taxes and could be drafted when there was a military draft).
how many high school students are there in the US?
how many middle school students are there in the US?
Does that include the 50 states and other territories?
Thanks!!.
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: The Dept. of Eduction’s Digest of Education Statistics has data that lags a few years. For 1999/2000, the latest year that they have data for both public and private schools, the high school total is 14,187,695. This includes 50 states plus DC, but not outlying areas such as Puerto Rico, Samoa, etc. They have those numbers if you want to add them in. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d03/lt2.asp#c2_1
For middle school, they don’t have the grades broken down for private schools (just grades 1-8). For public schools, for Fall 2001, the numbers for grades 6-8 add to 11,110,756 for 50 states plus DC. Go to that website for more detail.
How do I make an online form so I know who downloads files from my website. I’m offering personal pictures of myself (in noncompromising positions) and I would like to limit downloads to people who enter their name and email address, etc. into a form that gets sent to me somehow.
Any thoughts on where I should go to learn or if there is a web site that I could copy. (Maybe this one?)
Thank you and have a blessed day!
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: This may be complex. You need a form that allows the user to go to another page or retrieve a file if they fill out the form correctly. This would require a server-side form-processing script (to tell the server what to do based on the values it receives from the form), and if you’re not a web-master with access to the server, it might be hard to set up. I recommend you contact your ISP or wherever your webpages are stored about how to do this, and if it’s allowed, in your situation.
Bypassing the server scripting, you might be able to have data submitted from form to you via email — in the
Will Mars really appear nearly as large as the moon during August, as some emails my friends have received suggested?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: No. We’d have a lot to worry about if it did.