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In which Maria makes a dubious choice of date movies. Then again, the first movie Kate and I went to was "Hrad Rain," so who am I to judge?
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On student trips to learn "Like how the gravity and force relates with the loops and stuff."
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"Parkinson found that committees with more than about 20 members are much more ineffectual at making decisions than smaller groups -- something he dubbed the "coefficient of inefficiency"."
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Committee - none of us individually is as stupid as all of us together. The stupidity of government committees is like the number of even or odd integers versus the total number of integers. The conclusion is determined at the start.
An extreme committee danger is that an elderly gentleman dying of cancer added as legitimizing decoration is smarter than everybody else summed - and doesn't heel for propriety's sake or under threats of personal loss. Beware of the old fart.
Finally, compromise is mathematically impossible if more than a small number of variables must be satisfied. Committees of more than a few people must fail unless everybody is in lockstep - in which case, why did you need the committee?