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Okay, I can’t let the day go by without referencing to the fact that today is PI day. There are some constants that appears in numerous situations and formulas and PI is one of them. I wish I had saved an article I read today where it mentioned an equation that held all of the amazing unusual symbols such as the imaginary i, the logarithm e and pi. There are some really weird and mysterious stuff in the world that can’t be explained.
When you mix gun availability with hate speech on Fox News you get…the Buffalo mass shooting. We are getting more and more of these mass shootings. I know the pandemic has worsened people’s ability to cope but we already had a simmering level of craziness and violence. Add on top of that the looseness of…
This post is connected to the following post: Capitalism Disrupted.[ap_divider color=”#CCCCCC” style=”double” thickness=”3px” width=”100%” mar_top=”20px” mar_bot=”20px”] [Don’t know how long my Microsoft Internet connection will last. Yesterday I could not do a post because I could not upload a picture. That’s part of the fun with this blog – posting pictures. I also couldn’t update…
Last Thursday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day which explains why I’ve been seeing quite a few articles about World War II, especially about those who are still alive. Those who survived the German camps are especially trying to make sure a history of what they went through remains after their death. They are trying to…
“The value of universities to a capitalist society depends on their ability to resist capitalism, to carve out space for intellectual endeavors that don’t have obvious metrics or market value.” New York Times, “The Misguided Drive to Measure Learning Outcomes”, Molly Worthen, February 23, 2018 I was reading an article about learning and higher education…
For some people, it’s a war out there. In “Nothing on this page is real” by Washington post is a story about two people waging an online war – probably what they feel is good versus evil battle. Reading this article provides a tiny glimpse into the mindset of these people. One is a liberal…
They tell young students in college to major in STEM jobs (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) but what if there aren’t enough STEM jobs to go around? An article in the NY Times explodes the idea that majoring in STEM will get you jobs. Basically the only STEM major that will potentially net you a job…
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