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Category Archives: technical issues
Archimedes and the area of a parabolic segment – squareCircleZ
Archimedes and the area of a parabolic segment – squareCircleZ
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Trigonometry tips @ squareCircleZ
Murray Bourne’s IntMath Newsletter this week includes a nice preamble to the study of Trigonometry. I’d like to be able to link to that item specifically when introducing the topic, so maybe I’ll ask him to isolate it if he … Continue reading
BCcampus OER site – Free Learning at EdTechPost
Scott Leslie writes about the BCcampus Open Educational Resources site with some new ideas for using social networking sites like del.icio.us
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Canadians Need Net-Neutrality
Take Action: Say NO to Corporate Control Open Letter to CRTC Chair Konrad von Finckenstein: Dear Sir, Canadians rely on the CRTC, as the federal communications regulator, to act in the public interest, which in this case means ensuring we … Continue reading
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Computer Algebra Systems
(This posting was prompted in part by a brief mention of the issue in squareCircleZ ) It is often claimed that Computer Algebra Systems will (or already do) eliminate the need for much of what is taught in high school … Continue reading
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Goodbye College Diplomas ?
Stephen Downes links to Tom Haskins saying Goodbye College Diplomas Thank god that the time will soon arrive when a prospective employer will not be denied the pleasure of reading all my undergrad essays but will instead be able to … Continue reading
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Mythical Myths No 7
In “The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons”, Ian Angus claims that the phenomenon commonly called a “tragedy of the commons” is a myth. But he is wrong. Anyone who is aware of the fate of the Atlantic cod … Continue reading
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It Ain’t No Repeated Addition Ain’t It?
I don’t hold back from challenging the way mathematics is taught in schools myself, but Keith Devlin’s recent MAAonline column is off base and out of line.
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Online, R U Really Reading?
Literacy Debate – Online, R U Really Reading? – Series – NYTimes.com But what do they think I just did with that article? I read it online!
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Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid | AlterNet
Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid | AlterNet Typical knee-jerk anti-nuke article but comments actually worth reading
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Attention Returns to Distraction
A couple of weeks ago I posted briefly on (one of the many responses to) Nicholas Carr’s article in the current Atlantic Monthly. Now I am reading another article on the topic. Bryan Appleyard in the Sunday Times refers to … Continue reading
I Google, therefore I Don’t Think
My friend Gerry Pareja sent this article by John Naughton from The Observer, responding (I think very well) to Nicholas Carr’s ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?‘ in The Atlantic, but I can’t say that its arrival is what distracted me … Continue reading
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Hedonic Man
Hedonic Man is the title of a review by Alan Wolfe of two books on the “new economics”. Like Wolfe (and probably countless others) I am sure that the science of economics is sorely lacking, but also like him I … Continue reading
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Gates on Watson on Race
The Science of Racism is an odd title for an article in which Henry Louis Gates identifies James Watson’s view as something he calls “racialist” and distinct from “racist”.
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Dyson on Global Warming
The Question of Global Warming – The New York Review of Books
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CO2 Reduction Scenarios (UK example)
Heavyweight physics prof weighs into climate/energy scrap [printer-friendly] | The Register
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I was led to this Sunday Times profile of Taleb via Arts&Letters Daily. Taleb’s view that market collapses are more sudden and extreme (though less frequent) than rises seems believable to me but is presumably easily checked from the record, … Continue reading
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Web Critic Gets it Wrong…
Mike Caulfield provides a brilliant rebuttal of a rather silly column (by Monica Hesse in the Washington Post) supporting the ideas of Andrew Keen about the supposed relative unreliability of the web relative to print. (This came to me via … Continue reading
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Resource: Mathematics Illuminated
Resource: Mathematics Illuminated This looks interesting – must check what costs are and how much is open access
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Friday Math Movie – Uncounted – squareCircleZ
Given that the theme for Math Awareness Month this April is Math and Voting, this week’s choice by Murray Bourne seems particularly appropriate: Friday Math Movie – Uncounted – squareCircleZ
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