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This author has experience both as a chemist (food, polymer, and pharmaceutical industries) and as a teacher of high school (AP) chemistry and physics. He holds a Master's degree, unsurprisingly, in chemistry.

Beyond the professional realm, Ernest writes (as yet unpublished) science fiction, runs, bicycles, gardens, kayaks, and finds a variety of other ways to employ body and mind.

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I know too much about ...

As a teacher I firmly believe you can never know too much.

My parents always told me ...

Spice is the variety of life. (Thanks Dad!)

My favorite memory ...

Sand court volleyball - at all hours - in college.

My first job ...

Paperboy

My best moment ...

Certainly was spent with my students, but could never be narrowed down to one.

My inspiration ...

Isaac Asimov & my Dad

Computers & Technology > Computers & Technology (Other) Does technology impoverish the mind?

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Thousands of years ago, medical lore, history, and all knowledge were passed from one generation to the next by word of mouth. The people who maintained this knowledge had to have exceptional memory skills, and they could recite the information to the rest of the people as needed. The population en masse would only retain those facts that were meaningful to them. Eventually the arts of reading and writing came along. These skills remained the domain of but a few people, with the populace at large left out, but the number of people with access to the knowledge grew, and because people no lo...

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