Speaking thermodynamically

It is a common conception that the body looses the majority of heat from the top of the head. This idea resurfaces every winter, but I have my doubts. I wonder if that "fact" is merely a thermodynamic coincidence, in that the top of the head is at the top of the body. My point is this: if I were hanging upside down, would I loose the majority of my body heat from the soles of my feet? As a corollary, does wearing a hat actually prevent heat loss, or does it merely lower the escape point, so the majority of my body heat is lost from my face?

what am i going to do?

Part of my job as graduate research assistant is to transcribe video-recorded lessons for analysis. Two things I notice that come up alot in the novice teachers that I work with are:

1. Saying, "ok, what we're going to do today is, we're going to..."
2. Repeating a students answer verbatim, immediately after he/she says it,in the form of a question.For example; teacher: "why is the sky blue?" student: "because of the clouds." teacher: "because of the clouds?" In effect, the students will be conditioned to stop listening to the other students, because the teacher will repeat him/her.

book authors trying to seem smart

I’m reading a book about the history of mathematics, and there’s a section about the discovery of irrational numbers. Pythagoras proved that the square of a number can never be equal to twice the square of another. The book says:
“But the square root of 2 is obviously a ‘number’ of some sort*;”

The foot note says:
“The inherent visciousness of such an assumption is obvious.”
Whether it’s obvious or not, if the author believes so, why even mention it?

Note, also, that the FIRST PAGE reads, “…it is just possible that Archimedes, could he come to life long enough to take a post-graduate course…”

wwjd now?

I was in the shower the other day, shampooing my hair, when i noticed that it seems my shampoo never runs out. I started to wonder, am I god?
After that trivialization, I began to ponder, if Jesus were alive today, would he perform miracles for modern and mundane things? Such as:

Would he buy the small bottle of shampoo that's only supposed to last 1 week, and have it last 7 or 8 with some more left over?

Would he change water into beer or (better yet) whiskey?

When he died, and his apostles gathered in hiding and spoke in tongues, would one of the tongues be Klingon?

I'm not in law school

case:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-sperm25.html
Girlfriend performed oral sex on boyfriend, artificially impregnated herself, and sued boyfriend for child support. Boyfriend counter-claimed against girlfriend for 'intentional infliction of emotional distress and theft! He argued that she stole the sperm to make the baby. The girlfriend argued that she didn't steal it - it was a gift.

my response:
it was like buying her dinner, she ate it, but you don't expect her to regurgitate the food, smear it on the wall and accuse him of graffitti.