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A Modest Dilemma

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There comes some point in teaching, where I have to introduce Coulomb's law in electricity. Here's where I always hit a dilemma: I give a series of sentences describing the properties of the Coulomb force. One sentence goes:

The force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

The issue: should I underline (or otherwise emphasize) "inversely" and "square"? Or should I underline "to" and "the"? In other words,

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A Milestone

For the first time, a story of mine has reached 100 Kudos: "Bikini Beach: A Boy's Visit". For the past few days, I was watching it as a race between that story (posted a year and a third ago) and my latest, "The Family Council", posted Tuesday.

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Something Sinister

There's something sinister about this situation, a WWII account in TVtrope's "Awesomeness By Analysis":

Britain analyzed planes returning from combat, plotting the number of planes returning with holes or damage against position of the holes. Some areas had many planes returning with holes there, while other positions had very few planes returning with holes. The question here is, which sections of the planes should be reinforced.

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A Curiosity

For some reason, one particular story of mine, "John's Living Nightmare" gets many times the hits of my other stories -- except for a story still listed on the Home Page. It doesn't get many times the Kudos. ("Bikini Beach: A Boy's Visit" comes closest to that.) Is there a particular reason?

Maybe it's not Bikini Beach?

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I am Testing Something

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I set a flag in my account so that only certain categories of persons are notified when I post new content. I want to see what this means.

Also, should I have put "Blogger" as the author instead of my own name?

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