The U.S. attorney’s office says 54-year-old Donald Sachtleben being held pending a detention hearing Thursday. A criminal complaint unsealed Monday charges Sachtleben with possessing and distributing child pornography.
Investigators allegedly found about 30 images and video files on the Carmel man’s computer. If convicted, Sachtleben could face up to 20 years in prison for the distribution charge, and 10 years for the possession charge.
His attorney, Kathleen Sweeney, says Sachtleben had a distinguished career and there never has any suggestion of inappropriate behavior. She said he was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation and the Unabomber investigation.
He also is a visiting professor at Oklahoma State University.
Tags: Charge
Integralmath, our Justicar, recently reposted my ‘debate’ with Steve Kern on his YouTube channel, and its gotten some fun comments. One was from someone making fun of Kern:
I CAN’T INTO SCIENCE, I HAVE THE DUMB.
I love it and literally loled*.
While the commentor was making fun of Kern, I also had to laugh because even though I am a scientist, I TOTALLY feel like this sometimes.
For instance, last Friday I was really busy. Experiment after experiment after experiment.
Not one thing worked.
Not one goddamn thing.
New stuff I was trying didnt work. Old stuff I have done a million times didnt work. And the best: When I was trying a new thing and I didnt think about a control I needed so I have no friggen idea if it worked (but it probably didnt). On top of it all, Bossman and I are editing a paper, and ironing out details is immensely frustrating– Data 1 and Data 2 obviously overlap. OBVIOUSLY. But what is the right stat metric to ‘prove’ that they are ‘statistically similar’? I dunno why ‘WTF? T
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Tags: Science, Science Dumb
MARQUETTE — It was a Hawaiian island at Superior Hills School in Marquette Thursday morning, right down to a hula dancing principal.
Principal Mike Woodard accepted the challenge of learning to hula dance in front of the school after the students met their reading and writing goals for the month of March. The kids completed themed challenges every week and finished off the month with Hawaiian Day.
It’s not the first time Principal Woodard has braved the kids’ challenges, all in the name of learning.
“I’ve been a cheerleader, I’ve been a leprechaun dancer, I’ve had a hula hoop contest with the kids. Just about anything you can think of, I’ve had that opportunity,” said Woodard.
Principal Woodard said he’ll continue to do silly activities for the kids, as long as they continue to meet their reading and writing goals.
Tags: Principal, Principal Pays
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I was thinking about attitudes toward physics the other day, and realized that whenever I meet somebody (not a physicist) for the first time and tell them that I’m a physicist, their initial responses most frequently fall into one of three general categories:
- “You must be really smart.”
- “I hated that when I took it in high school/ college.”
- “Can you explain string theory to me?”
It occurs to me that this helps explain why physicists are not generally considered scintillating conversationalists. Because, really, where can you go from any of those starting points?
Anyway, that got me wondering what the stock responses are for people from other academic fields. I asked a few people at lunch today, but there weren’t all that many people there. So, consider this a free-form poll question:
When you meet new people, and tell them what you do for a living, what are the most common responses?
It would help, of course, if you say what it is that you do in the same comment with the response.
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Tags: Initial, Nonphysicists Initial