Natural Blogarithms

Barry Bonds has surpassed Babe Ruth’s homerun record but a large contingent of basefall fans are less than thrilled at the news.  The likelihood of steroid use has tainted the achievement of Bonds prompting many to suggest either an asterisks beside the record or simply a denial of the record entirely.  David Young of Glenshaw, [...]

A worthwhile read:
Medical Guesswork
Modern medicine seems to have missed the usefullness of using mathematics as a decision making process.  This article is about Dr. David Eddy, a cardiac surgeon, who “discovered the beauty of mathematics and its promise of answering medical questions.”  After making it through a two-year math course in a couple of months, [...]

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has a new site dedicated to the connection between mathematics and art, specifically dealing with mathematical imagery.  As expected, much of the site is dedicated to the Dutch artist, M.C. Escher who created amazing works of art through the use of mathematics.  You will find links to galleries, museums, articles [...]

This is from a quiz at http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html
ACCORDING
TO YOUR ANSWERS,

The political description that fits you best is…
CONSERVATIVE
CONSERVATIVES tend to favor economic freedom, but frequently support laws to restrict personal behavior that violates “traditionalvalues.” They oppose excessive government control of business, [...]

Say adios to the Chevy Metro that looked like a golf ball. The prof’s got a grown up car now:
See it here.

I just finished reading an article in today’s paper that discussed a proposal before the Texas Transportation Commission whereby two interstate highways in West Texas would have their speed limits boosted to 80 mph. Wow. For most of my driving life, that is, since the time I was sixteen, I would have thought [...]

This past week marked the beginning of my venture in the wide world of Bioinformatics. As I was looking for work this summer I was searching for just about any area of research where my affinity for new mathematical applications would be satisfied. Somehow, since I became a mathematics researcher I have developed a [...]

HT: MommyFranklin
It’s reassuring that I am in the right field but I CANNOT believe that English is ranked higher than Chemistry or Biology. Especially since I am spending my summer as a Bioinformaticist.

You scored as Mathematics. You should be a Math major! Like Pythagoras, you are analytical, rational, and when are always ready [...]

HT: darkmidget668

A question was posted in a comment to an earlier post:
I do not know anything about math. Maybe you could answer my question????One of my favorite television shows is: NUMBERS on friday nights on either ABC, NBC, or Cbs. Comes on about 8 or 9 p m central time. Question——Are the different math formulas they [...]