This frequently entailed cobbled-together statements and misunderstandings, as well as tangential discussion.
As it often does, Monday morning's weigh-in prompted a tangential discussion among those in attendance and those readers following on Twitter.
Konrad Osterwalder, who is in charge of teaching and technological development at the university, said the process makes students feel less embarrassed about asking perhaps obvious questions while allowing professors to see how many students have the same question before launching into a perhaps tangential discussion.
While a tangential discussion point, this is not the main idea of this article.
There is even some tangential discussion about the industry's real challenge--maximizing online ad revenue.
I've found that sharing personal anecdotes, creating analogies to emphasize ideas, and pursuing the occasional tangential discussion are all valuable ways to help students to make connections and better understand core concepts.
Dumb groups engage in politicking -- they get lost in hours of tangential discussion about Phil's job performance and company absentee policy, and end up filibustering over how "we need some changes around here," all without ever figuring out how to cover for Phil.
This year's group leader Kay Teschke, a professor in epidemiology and the key creator of the Bridge program, keeps our often tangential group discussions centred on human disease endpoints.
The transport of the ribosome thus bifurcates at the premature stop codon: it can either terminate here, thus resulting in truncated, potentially functionless, polypeptides, or readthrough the premature stop codon to produce the full-length protein (in some cases, the readthrough may be associated with a frameshift, but such details are somewhat tangential to the discussion here).
