Natural Blogarithms

Somehow, I thought developing an online math course would be easier.  Having taught college level math courses for 9 years now, I’ve begun to understand what it takes and doesn’t take for student to succeed in a college level mathematics course.[...]

Now you can Enhance your Experience in any room with your favorite music with the iCarta iPod Toilet Roll.[...]

I’ve taken a post-doctoral research position in Bioinformatics at Texas Tech University. I am going into full-time research for a while. I have decided that the next step in my career is to pursue a larger commitment to research. That doesn’t mean I am completely done with education. I have developed an online College Algebra course for Wayland and will teach as an adjunct for its Virtual Campus. I hope to continue this indefinitely but we’ll just have to see how well such a course will work.[...]

It’s back after a few weeks on hiatus:[...]

I am utterly horrified by the events that unfolded on the campus of Virginia Tech this morning…

May God comfort those who have suffered and provide officials with wisdom to handle the road ahead.[...]

I think you’ll enjoy this. It’s a very catchy tune even if the words might be hard to get the hang of.[...]

When a software need arises, I have pretty standard (and probably unwise) approach to solving the problem. Within the last couple of days, the warning popped on my work desktop that told me I was running low on hard drive space. I am unfortunate enough to have a desktop with mere 40GB of space.  There was a day and time when that last sentence would’ve been utterly ridiculous. [...]

Check it out for yourself: It’s called Google TiSP.

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While substituting for a colleague in Modern Geometry, we were reviewing several theorems regarding circles and doing some constructions with compass and ruler. At one point I presented a theorem on the fact that a tangent line to a circle is perpendicular to the line passing through the center of the circle and the point of the tangent. We also demonstrated that the converse is true: any line that passes through a point on a circle that is perpendicular to the through that point and the center must be a tangent.[...]

This was fascinating: A photographic list of all the bodies in our solar system that are larger than 200 mi in diameter. By the way, I particularly like the name of the objects beyond Neptune: “Trans-Neptunion Object (TNOs)” [...]