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{{quote|''I always had a much easier time learning math when it was being applied to a problem whose answer I was interested in — that meant something to me, and I could picture. You say “There’s a 5-meter ball rolling down an inclined plane with this many degrees and that has this rotational inertia. Figure out how quickly it’ll accelerate.” That sounds boring to me. But if you ask, “Could“[[Raiders of the Lost Ark|Could Indiana Jones really have outrun that boulder]]?” It’s the same problem''|Randall Munroe, in conversation with Alvin Powell, ''[https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/randall-munroe-and-the-power-of-what-if/ The Harvard Gazette]}}