SciAm crossword

[rhu]

Patrick Merrell's annual Scientific American crossword is now available online. As usual, it's clever and fun.

But I'm having an internal conflict: As a diploma-carrying physicist, I am forced to write the atomic symbols in mixed case; as a solver, I find that looks really weird.

Comments

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Do you really carry that diploma with you? That must be irritating.

But thanks for the pointer! I didn't know about these, and now I have three to do!

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Do you really carry that diploma with you? That must be irritating.

I don't carry it all the time, but every so often I pick it up, carry it around the room, and put it away just so I can call myself diploma-carrying.

And, perhaps more to the point, I'm not a professional physicist; my only claim to the title of "physicist" is that sorry piece of lambskin.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Is it at least in Latin?

[tinhorn2.livejournal.com]

Mine is in Latin, *and* difficult-to-read script. And somehow a physics degree from Princeton is an AB (backwards Bachelor of Arts), not a SciB.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

My degree's also an AB as oppsed to a BA. (It's an AB and not an ScB because I had no interest in taking enough science courses to get an ScB in math; the AB was just fine.)

I gather that only the Engineering School at Columbia can grant Bachelor of Science degrees there; anything from the college is necessarily a Bachelor of Arts. I have no idea why, but perhaps something similar is going on at Princeton.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

And my music degree is an S.B., because at MIT even the arts are a science.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Alas, it is not.