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A student made an offhand comment about Albert Einstein being a great contributor to the scientific world today and I successfully incorporated the great dad joke, "Yeah, but his brother, Frank, was a real monster."
One student looked in my eyes and gave a knowing nod while the rest wondered who Frank Einstein was.
#teaching
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