On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:48:27 AM UTC-8, Higher Education wrote:
Your american ways and customs are strange and frightening to us

Canadians.



Your collective descent into the toilet continues...



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Columbia professor strips down to underwear in bizarre lesson to help

baffled students learn quantum mechanics.



'In order to learn quantum mechanics, you have to strip to your

raw, erase all the garbage from your brain, and start over again,'



Prof. Emlyn Hughes said. Against a backdrop of 9/11 and Holocaust

images, he remained in a fetal position as two people dressed as

ninjas blindfolded stuffed animals.



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Photo of Prof. Hughes taking off his pants

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This Columbia University professor s approach to teaching quantum

mechanics is a real eye-opener.



Prof. Emlyn Hughes gave students a bizarre performance Monday, stripping

down to his underwear as images of 9/11 and the Holocaust showed on a

screen behind him.



Hughes remained in the fetal position on the floor as two people dressed

as ninjas blindfolded two stuffed animals and impaled one of them with a

sword. The whole five-minute skit was posted on the website Bwog.



The students at first encouraged Hughes to dance to the music that was

playing as he stripped, but then were dismayed when footage of the Twin

Towers collapsing and wartime Nazi Germany began rolling, the video

shows.



What is happening? one female student asks repeatedly. I am so

confused, another says.



When Hughes pulled out a microphone, one female student mistook it for a

firearm. He has a gun, she said before realizing her mistake.



Hughes then addressed the class and suggested that he intended to

confuse them to better prepare their brains for the complexity of

quantum mechanics.



In order to learn quantum mechanics, you have to strip to your raw,

erase all the garbage from your brain, and start over again, he said.



Um, nothing you ve learned in your life up til now is in any way going

to help prepare you for this. . . . I ve been tasked with the impossible

challenge of teaching you quantum mechanics in one hour.



Neither the professor nor the university immediately responded to

messages seeking comment.

If you compare what's on TV, movies and the music being played today to that of the sixties and seventies you will see that communal imagination "has left the building".
What the professor did might be just what today's reality TV, text message generation needs.