Category: Words
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Math as a Liberal Art
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Half-Baked
The gist: ideas shouldn’t be hoarded. More info here. As ideas get a little more action, I will give them their own page and link to it. You’re welcome. The…
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On: Scotch Whisky and Head Colds
Yes, I wanted to go. I had the genetic right to see what this land was all about! I wanted my own pictures of copper stills and peat fields! I…
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Your Apps Are Worthless
The more apps I use, the more things I need to tend, the less energy I have to write/ read/ nap/ think/ whatever. Think of it like “app zero.”
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The Gallery Next Door
Show me what you are. Don’t wait to pick up on a clue of something you think I might like – I’d rather you show me what you’re into. Let…
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Entertained to the Death of It
The viewers of Entertainment can’t look away and their bodies rot while they watch TV. Why read a book when you can scroll through Instagram? Why read the history of…
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All The Good Stuff Is At The Bottom
“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”
The problem with math – at least with math instruction – is that everything is presented as a problem to be solved, and there is one solution. It wouldn’t be until a seminar on etymology that I started to understand where my mathematical collapse begun.
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