Patrick Lambe of Green Chameleon linked on his blog to my post about the whole Popline thing. ZOMG! If I were the ZOMG-run-around-the-house-fanning-my-face type, I’d totally be doing that. In fact, perhaps I will go do that for a bit. Then I suppose I should read his book since I got […]
A fascinating look at math education from the perspective of a real mathematician.
[earlier in the article]
SIMPLICIO: But not everyone is cut out to be an artist. What about the kids who aren’t “math people?” How would they fit into your scheme?
SALVIATI: If everyone were exposed to mathematics in its natural state, with all the challenging […]
I love that the W3C recommendation/standard for semantic web query language is called SPARQL. M1 used to call sequins “sequels” which I always parsed as SQLs, so somehow it all just fits in my head… SQLs & SPARQLs & squeee!, my chosen profession is just so glittery & fabulous!
So brassratgirl scooped the NYT (at least for me)!
Health Database Was Set Up to Ignore ‘Abortion’.
Johns Hopkins University said Friday that it had programmed its computers to ignore the word “abortion” in searches of a large, publicly financed database of information on reproductive health after federal officials raised questions about two articles in the database. […]