Natural Blogarithms

I received an email earlier to day trying to promote some sort of a boycott of Exxon/Mobile Mobil gasoline stations in an effort to force them to lower their gas prices. Recognizing that there are few around my neck of the woods, I didn’t pay much attention to the email. Plus, I [...]

HT: GraphJam

Very cool.
In a similar vein to the rotating hypercube, thanks to Rinus Roelofs here are a couple more fantastic impossible animations.

Conflusions: An amazing collection of optical illusions » Blog Archive » More amazing animations

I just learned about questdlg, a very cool little command in Matlab that I plan on making great use of.  HT: blinkdagger 
. . . if we use the following code, we can create a window that queries the user for their favorite color [or anything else]. Go ahead and copy and paste the following code [...]

Math class is not terribly different from shop class. Both are all about tools and toolboxes. Math class is no more about mathematics than wood shop is about craftsmanship and design.
— Tony Lucchese

Don’t forget to mark you calendars for the upcoming holiday this Friday.  What holiday, you say.  Well, it’s Pi Day, of course.  March 14.  (3/14, as in 3.1415926…)
We mathematicians will celebrate anything, I tell ya.
In honor of Pi Day, I am reposting my favorite pi song.  Enjoy:
Pi Song

I dropped off on Saturday’s post and there were a few remaining talks I attended, shoving a few fresh concepts into my already overflowing noggin.
Saturday afternoon:
1.  There was a sparsely attended talk on using concept maps in blogging which I attended mainly because it was pointed out to me earlier in the day.  I am [...]

I have to admit that I was a little disappointed when I checked in to my hotel, the Econo Lodge Central.  It’s lower end (2 star at most).  It’s not disgusting but there are no frills whatsoever.  I should say, no frills except one.  I have free wireless internet access which is something that the [...]

I’ve said this to so many people here but I am "mentally saturated".  I have too many new ideas that I’m worried I won’t be able to take any one of them and start using it.  To alleviate this fear, I have documented as much as I can in several pages of scribbled notes.  Over [...]

So here’s a quick overview of what I’ve done so far at ICTCM.
Friday:
1. First thing off the bat was the keynote address by  Frank Hughes, Vice President for Training Products at Tietronix Software.  We presented the idea of using immersive 3d environment to engage our students and deliver course content in a medium that matches [...]