Natural Blogarithms

WARNING: This is a fairly long post. And my apologies to anyone who received multiple notices, I kept accidentally posting, prematurely.
It is a continuation of an earlier post, Mission Statement. In that post, as well as this one, I am attempting to set a direction for my life. The problem is [...]

I was posed a question:
What are the odds that in the span of the one eighth of a second it takes for a camera shutter to open and close, 18 people will all have their eyes open at the same time?
ANSWER: Assuming a blink rate of 20 blinks per min with an [...]

The downside to the first world series coming to Texas (other than the Astros’ losing) has been the late nights. Being only an occasional sports fan, I usually watch only the big games and usually only when they involve one of my teams. So, at least one nice thing can come [...]

On my reading list page, I am keeping up with books I am reading, have read and intend to read. When I set it up, I realized that very there were none on my list related to my specific career choice, namely, a mathematician and a mathematic educator. I came across an article in this [...]

In teaching multi-variable Calculus, it is often a challenge to get students to begin to think beyond the 3 spatial dimensions. To illustrate the challenge, I often draw a four dimensional cube on the board and explain the difficulty in visualizing hyper-spatial volumes:
4 Dimensional Hyper-cube
We can actually easily get up to 5 dimensions in visualizations [...]

I took this quiz and recognized by inner yoda.

I am almost afraid to post this because I don’t want to get into a big political debate on this blog but I thought I ought to report on a fairly interesting finding. I was perusing the Harriet Miers nomination and looked over her biography. I never could put my finger on it but there [...]

I don’t know if anyone ever noticed or cared for that matter, but I don’t use blogger for my blogging. I actually host mine and my wife’s blog on a server at our house. No one ever has asked why, but that’s never stopped me from giving an answer. I implemented it so [...]

The World Series is finally coming to Texas! Way to go, Astros!!!

Ever been hungry for all the baseball stats you could handle. There all here: Retrosheet (and by all, I mean ALL)