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Maureen Armstrong, mathematics professor at Harvard University: I'm sorry, we can't help you. I have to go. Bye-bye.Another professor at an Ivy League school claimed she was busy and in a meeting (a likely story). Although these professors like to sit around and talk all day about things like string theory, they seem averse to answer the questions that plague the common man. What good is becoming an expert when you'll only converse with other experts? That's like scoffing at an adult illiterate who's struggling with Hop on Pop because someone gave you PhD funding to write a dissertation on Anna Karenina that no one will ever look at again. What happened to giving back to the less fortunate? Damn.Regardless, we were committed to getting the bros an answer, so we linked up with Joanna Nelson, a post-doc student at Columbia who specializes in symplectic and contact topology. I have no idea what that means for her, but for our purposes it meant she's a really smart math lady who could settle this argument once and for all."It would make sense to talk about working out in two week intervals, because you can't evenly divide a week by two," she told me. "So I would say over two weeks you'd want to exercise seven times. You'd have to look at it in two-week chunks to make the schedule." She also added, for the record, that a full week goes Monday through Sunday. So there you have it, meatheads. You're fucking welcome.Follow Allie Conti on Twitter.