#examination : a detailed inspection

- French: inspection

- German: die Prüfung/die Untersuchung

- Italian: esame

- Portuguese: exame

- Spanish: examen

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I’m waiting for the smooth brained 🧠 Chancellors of #Universities to take pay cuts for their lack of #contingency planning when the fully endorsed, “single point of failure #examination, #marking and #grades” disrupts the academic year resulting in disruption of #academic #SLA

Does anyone remember paper examinations?

#Software / #hacks / #CyberAttack / #academia / #tech / #lol 🤪
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/08/canvas-cyberattack-us-schools-universities>

Cyber-attack on system widely used in US education disrupts final exams

Nationwide Canvas outage left students and faculty ‘dead in the water’ and rushing to rearrange end of academic year

The Guardian
Forensic team found wife's DNA in Dean Penney's garage, but no confirmation of any blood
A report from the RCMP written in the months following the examination of Dean Penney's St. Anthony, N.L., garage says that while there was no confirmation of signs of blood in the room, Jennifer Hillier-Penney's DNA was present.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/dean-penney-trial-april-29-9.7181783?cmp=rss

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Essay (1881-11) “The Christian Religion,” “Part 2” North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 300

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Ingersoll, Robert Green - Essay (1881-11) "The Christian Religion," "Part 2" North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 300 | WIST Quotations

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

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