Showing posts with label people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Charles Babbage and "Street Nuisances"

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Wow! One of my fave things about Charles Babbage is he dedicated 28 pages (!!) of his autobiography to street nuisances, in which he classi...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

What Happens When You Finish a PhD in Complex Systems

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No cynicism or snark at all. :P When you finish a PhD in complex systems, they take you to a special room and tell you that people are not ...
Friday, May 10, 2019

The Original People of Los Angeles

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Here is an online vignette from a Los Angeles Times project about the origins of Los Angeles. Quoting from the vignette: "The origi...
Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Video project: "Faces of Women in Mathematics"

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Last month, Irina Linke (Director) and Eugénie Hunsicker (Producer) collected videos of women mathematicians, and today they released their...
Thursday, January 04, 2018

The Problem With Talking to People

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There are two things that I really dislike about talking to people: (1) talking and (2) people.
Thursday, December 07, 2017

An Imposter Physics Professor with a "Compulsion to Teach"

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The case of former physics professor Marvin Hewitt is a weird one. Quoting the Wikipedia entry: Marvin Hewitt (born 1922) was an American...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

World Mathematics Day

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Yesterday was apparently World Mathematics Day. Here are a bunch of mathematicians to learn about.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

#realfaceofmath

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Kit Yates has come up with an excellent suggestion: To help combat stereotypes, mathematical scientists should tweet a picture of themselve...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Being Part of the Story of Science

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When you are an undergraduate student, and for the most part when you're a graduate student (though it starts to change then), you read ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

See! I Told You That People Are Particles!

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Even Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal agrees that people are particles! See! I told you so! :P (Well, actually, they aren't --- th...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Ideas >> People >> Drinks

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I am going to bring up this 'issue' of SMBC the next time --- it will be soon, I am sure --- that people discuss something like win...
Thursday, June 07, 2007

Song of the Day

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Today's theme song is Regret by New Order. It's a damn fine song. You should listen to it someday. I don't feel regret very o...