Natural Blogarithms

About a week and half ago, classes began at Wayland.  I have also started my one day a week position at Texas Tech.  For those who may not know, I took a bit of a sabbatical from teaching, without knowing at the time that it was a sabbatical.  It had been my intention to try [...]

Philip Stark, a statistician at UC Berkeley, has been able to provide a more reliable technique for performing recounts of close elections.  As technology has entered into the voting realm, different kinds of errors have crept into the election system.  Based on election results, certain forms of recounts will undoubtedly need to be performed.  Hand [...]

Mathematicians at the University of Exeter in England model traffic jams based on the cascading effect of driver responses to the brake lights in front of them.  Not only does the mathematical model answer questions about why traffic can creep to a stop without any accident or obstruction, but it may also lead to better [...]

Originally from ThinkGeek

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 HT: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/poem.htm

So you have a sequence of integers and you want to know more about it.  What’s the next number? Does it have significance in any field of mathematical study? Or just, what’s so special about this list of numbers?  You can go to the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequence and stick in the first few [...]

Nifty.
 
Thumb Thing
If you like to read, here’s “Thumb Thing” you must have! Simply put the Thumb Thing on your thumb and pick up a book; the two wings will hold the pages open more easily than if you just used your hand, making reading more comfortable. Ideal for reading in bed, in the bath [...]

This is an archive of my reading list before I switched over to Shelfari.
Finished Reading Lists: | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 |

Currently Reading:

* Science and Faith: An Evangelical Dialogue by Harry Lee Poe, Jimmy H. Davis
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Reading List (Books [...]

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possibleby A. J. Jacobs
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I am not even sure how I was turned on to this little book but late this past fall, I added it to my reading list and was fortunate enough to receive [...]

In the last couple weeks I posted a link to a nifty little calendar that you can print and have all the months of the year on the front and back of a business card sized print out.  Using your thumbs you hide part of the card to reveal the desired month.  It was pretty [...]