by JanieM
As I think about the fact that there are too many topics to choose from, and I don't have time to put together something usefully focused on a single one of them, a phrase comes to mind. But it needs some background.
When I was an undergraduate at MIT, the head of the psychology department (now Brain and Cognitive Science) was one Hans-Lukas Teuber, one of those engaging and popular professors whose name was known to everyone. When I was there he taught the intro to psychology class, or 9.01 ("nine-oh-one"), psychology being "Course 9."
It was a popular class, so the lectures were given in one of the biggest lecture halls on campus (Room 26-100....). I never took the class, but I attended a few lectures with friends who were taking it and thus got a taste of why Professor Teuber was so popular. He was engaging, challenging, funny, smart, and clear.
Watch the first minute of this video, and then imagine him walking to the front of the lecture hall, looking out and up at a few hundred students, and saying, "Who vants to know vat?"
A variation of that question, in Teuber's accent, popped into my mind when I decided we were due for a new thread.
"Who vants to talk about vat?"
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