Monday, July 31, 2017

Dodgers Get Yu Darvish (and Two Left-Handed Relievers)!

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The Dodgers made a huge trade today: we acquired starting pitcher Yu Darvish from the Texas Rangers for three prospects. In separate dea...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Dodgers Win (Again)!

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Dodgers win ! This team is so amazing. We now have an astounding 74–31 record (after our 8th win in a row, and recently we had 10-game a...

Adrián Beltré Gets 3000th Career Hit!

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Adrián Beltré just got his 3000th career Major League hit . Next stop, Cooperstown! And it will be on the first ballot. Beltré has been ...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Super Geniuses :)

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This is one of the most brilliant political cartoons of all time. pic.twitter.com/6FG4Wsg5pb — David Moser (@david__moser) July 28, 2017 (...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Amazing Street Art

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This street art is amazing! RT @beccanalia @samanthatoy : The before and afters of this street art are the best https://t.co/OsNblqyRwv ...

Things Rick Astley Would Never Do: 30-Year Anniversary

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I wore my 'Things Rick Astley Would Never Do' shirt two days ago, but had I known that the song was released 30 years ago yesterday,...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

The Proper Way to Record 'A-Ha' Moments

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We've spent a lot of time this week talking about A-Ha moments for students, and now I know the app that I'm going to use to record...

Mathematican–Footballer John Urschel Retires Abruptly

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Mathematical and National Football League (NFL) player John Urschel has retired abruptly after the release of the latest chronic traumatic ...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Highlighting Responses to Reviewers

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D'oh! I think the "Highlights" and the "Response to Reviewers" got mixed up here https://t.co/Tx7kb7uSbc @fMRI_to...

A 1995 Dystopian Vision of the Web

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This article , presenting a dystopian vision of the Web, was written by astronomer Clifford Stoll in 1995. A recent article discusses Stol...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Math Profs are the Least Boring (And Other Observations from Data Analysis)

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Here is some interesting data analysis using reviews from Rate My Professors . You can see from this data analysis that math professors a...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

'National Nobody Cares Day'

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April 11th is `National Nobody Cares Day'. Yes, this really exists . (The things I learn when listening to a baseball game... The cont...

Wow! The Dodgers are Insane!

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We're leading 9–1 today in the 6th inning, so presumably we will win. That will make 11 wins in a row and a 31–4 record in our last 35...

"The Tonight Show" Starring Edward Teller?

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Wow. Here are some pictures of Edward Teller as a television-show host. OMG OMG. Edward Teller tried a run as a television show host in 1...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Turkey Tail Mushrooms

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Wow! These turkey tail 'shrooms are beautiful! ''Turkey tail mushrooms,'' an actual thing, not a painting pic.twitter...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Not "Atomic Blondie"

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I saw a billboard for the movie Atomic Blonde from my apartment building, and I was really excited that there was going to be a biopic abou...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Bansky's Tweet about Modern-Day Education

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The cartoon below illustrates the point very effectively. Just about* every time that I got into trouble at school was an instance of rebe...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

RIP Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017)

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Another person has been taken from us way too soon, and this one is particularly sad. Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani , the only woman to ev...
Friday, July 14, 2017

Do the Laws of Australia Supercede the Laws of Mathematics

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull apparently thinks so . To quote him, "Well the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

Uncountably Many Espresso Combinations

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The new SMBC is about both mathematics and coffee, so it's right up my alley. I'm pretty sure that one can also use a modificatio...