Thu 10 Apr 2008
Chemistry Class, CMU.
The professor is explaining how toxic chemicals can get into the food supply and showing a scale of health problems occurring in different areas of the country based on river pollution.
Professor: OK, here’s where the northeast is on the scale. It’s already getting pretty high up there… Do you consider Pittsburgh to be in the northeast? I don’t. We’re our own place, so we must be OK… The midwest is even higher up on the scale, but it’s OK because I don’t consider Pittsburgh to be in the midwest either.
April 13th, 2008 at 10:37 am
I believe Pittsburgh is technically located in the western most parts of the lower Mid North East Atlantic region.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:03 am
An eighth of an inch of rain, and the city gets Combined Sewage Overflows (that means shit in the rivers, in case you’re unclear).
Prof needs to go to more lectures by someone who Isn’t Him!
May 21st, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I think the point was that the professor was making fun of Pittsburgh for being so weird that it can’t be lumped into one region, not that the didn’t think Pittsburgh was polluted.