Natural Blogarithms

"Whoa! Dr. Franklin, that was fast."
One of my students made such a comment on the speed with which I entered numerical data into a spreadsheet using the 10-key number pad. Being well into a 3 hour class, I decided it was a good time to give a bit of a break to the stats [...]

From The Happiness Project by GretchenRubin
Just came across these in reading random blogs and thought they were very good.  My favorite is #7. 

Here are ten tips from Pope John XXIII about how to live a better life, day to day:

1. Only for today, I will seek to live the livelong day positively without wishing to solve the problems [...]

Thanks to a comment in an earlier post on MonkeyTex, I was introduced to an online tool for editing and compiling LaTEX documents and projects. 

For those that don’t know, LaTEX is a tool used by mathematicians, scientists, and engineers to typeset their print or electronic documents.  In order to render the symbolic notation [...]

I just started reading “The Unfinished Game” by Keith Devlin which documents a correspondence between Fermat and Pascal that literally changed the course of mathematics and even, some would argue, of history in general. The correspondence laid the foundations for probability theory.
What I just learned was something I’d never heard before:
“The modern, so-called Hindu-Arabic [...]

I went out on a limb today.  During my talk that I presented at the ICTCM 2010 conference in Chicago, instead of using a more traditional media supplement to my talk (such as overhead, powerpoint or PDFs), I used Prezi.  Some of you may have heard of it, but most of you probably haven’t.
I discovered [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading a book that had been recommend in an article I was reading at the MAA website (Mathematical Association of America).  The book was called “The Housekeeper and the Professor” by Yoko Ogawa.
I highly recommend this book as a quick read.  It’s a heartwarming tale that wraps [...]

Thank you Twitter! 
More specifically, I’m grateful to one of the co-chairs of the ICTCM conference for watching twitter and seeing my lament that I would not be able to attend the conference this year because I didn’t have the travel funds.

On February 11th, I posted:
Still trying to decide if ICTCM is in the cards [...]

As part of the group project that was assigned in my Differential Equations course, students were required to write a project report.  I just wanted to post quickly today that I am significantly impressed with the performance of these students on the assignment provided. 
In preparation for the writing portion of the project, I [...]

Stumbled across an interesting little post about 5 ways that you can lie with your graphs.  Actually, a better lesson to take from the post is “5 ways other people lie with their graphs and now you can call them on it.”
The post was on Talking Squid, entitled “Five Easy Lies”: Two of the most [...]

From an article by Mary Ann Bragg which appeared on CapeCodeOnline and was also printed in this month’s College Mathematics Journal:
TRURO — Voters narrowly approved one of four zoning amendments late Tuesday night at the annual town meeting. But town officials were still looking at the exact vote count on that article yesterday.
In a vote [...]