Timeline for Will ads appear on MO?
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| Jul 22, 2019 at 18:03 | comment | added | Alec Rhea | Whiteboard markers also have potential risks, but chemicals like xylene and methyl isobutyl ketone evaporate over very short time spans and distances from the board and are only really dangerous if you sniff the marker (or leave your face right up against the board as you write, like me). | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 17:55 | comment | added | Alec Rhea | @AsafKaragila On a slightly more serious note, chalk has potential adverse health risks (aaqr.org/files/article/569/9_AAQR-15-04-OA-0216_2596-2608.pdf) In particular, the linked study found that chalk use leads to "irritation to the eyes, skin, respiratory tract, mucous membranes, and digestive tract", and that for chronic users like mathematicians "the potential chronic health concerns are lung and liver damage resulting from exposure to calcium sulfate and calcium carbonate particles, respectively." I still use it, but view it like smoking (a guilty pleasure, not in classrooms, etc.). | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 12:32 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | @dorebell came here to say that. Advertisements that use geolocation to tell me the closest store to buy Hagoromo at the drop of the hat are totally welcome. | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 7:12 | comment | added | Zach Teitler | Blackboards, whiteboards, who can decide! When I need a break from tough questions like that, I like to relax with a nice, hot donut of coffee, and a maple glazed coffee mug, from Mathin' Donuts, visit today! For a limited time only, buy one, get one free, with code Banach-Tarski. | |
| Jul 11, 2019 at 5:37 | comment | added | dorebell | Perhaps ads for sites selling fancy Japanese chalk would do well... | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 20:06 | comment | added | Somatic Custard | I don't have a strong opinion about blackboards vs whiteboards, but chalk is unquestionably superior to markers. Since chalk doesn't write well on whiteboards, I can only conclude that blackboards are the way to go, and users of whiteboards are heretics. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 10:54 | vote | accept | Alec Rhea | ||
| Jul 9, 2019 at 10:32 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 10:29 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 36 | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 10:17 | comment | added | Alec Rhea | Not according to my book, you'll see when we all die and get to check in with eachother down below. wait | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 10:11 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | That's a false god. And everyone who knows anything should also know that. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 10:06 | comment | added | Alec Rhea | @AsafKaragila I will give my life in this holy war; whiteboards, just as god intended! | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 10:00 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | Whiteboards are the reason mathematical progress is not twice as faster. Blackboards forever!!! | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 7:54 | history | asked | Alec Rhea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |