I was working in the tutoring center yesterday and ended up spending quite a bit of time with a student working on a Physics problem about a fish hanging on a spring scale in an elevator. I hadn't done this kind of thing in probably 25 years, but I had the right idea from the start. I ended up reversing the signs on my first try and it took me a while to sort out what I was doing wrong. But it's so typical ... if there's a way to do something backwards, I will definitely find it. But the main question I had, honestly, was why someone was sending this fish up and down in an elevator?? Today's Colorado puzzle which I featured back in 2013 just seemed appropriate for the occasion:
Befuddled Babel Fish
Tomorrow we'll ...
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