By Rosemarie Emanuele. I have always been intrigued by the idea of “infinity.” Not only does infinity describe the distance beyond a number, it also describes, in a different way, the distance between two numbers. I found myself thinking of this recently when I contributed a donation to Ursuline’s effort to rebuild the gym that was destroyed by a tornado two years ago this summer. Read more...
16 août 2015
Math Geek Mom: Bricks to Infinity (After Two Years)
Math Geek Mom: Sounds of Summer
By Rosemarie Emanuele. The interest rate paid to savers by banks and by borrowers to lenders is sometimes called the “time value of money.” This interest rate can be seen as the price that people will pay to use money today, rather than wait a while and use the money later, when it is immediately available or has been accumulated through savings. Read more...
A World Without Time and Money
By Laura Tropp. While I was on the subway, I wanted to find out what time it was. I long ago stopped wearing a watch, but I didn't feel like digging through my bag to find my phone. I saw that the teenager sitting next to me was wearing a watch, so I tried stealing a glance to see the time. Read more...
The Inevitability of Loss
By Susan O'Doherty. Last week I visited with a friend, C, who is dealing with an aggressive form of cancer. Despite her baldness, pallor, and loss of muscle tone, she looked beautiful, even radiant, and I commented on this. Read more...
“Kondo-ing” My College Files
By Heather Alderfer. After reading Marie Kondo’s The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, I decided the boxes of college papers in the basement had to go. The six or seven banker’s boxes had been moved from state to state over the last 13 years, and not once had I needed anything or looked inside. More...
Paying it Forward
By Deanna England. I graduated with my Honours degree in 1998, and a few years later I began volunteering with my Alumni Association. This was a wonderful opportunity to plan events, meet other graduates and give back to the institution that gave me (at the time) five wonderful years of education. More...
Structural Constraints in Indian Higher Education
By M. Saravanan. India has the largest higher education system in terms of the number of higher education institutions and the second largest in terms of enrolment, following only China. From about 20 universities and 500 colleges in 1947, the numbers have grown to 712 universities and 36671 colleges in 2014. As the number of institutions and students multiplied, there was no commensurate change in the management structure of the system. Read more...
Who Will Be Karl Marx For This Century?
By Tracy Mitrano. We need a Karl Marx for the 21st century information political economy. Not the revolutionary Karl Marx of The Communist Manifesto, whose influence was more successful as a pretext for anti-colonial wars than for manifesting a “dictatorship of the proletariat,” but the Karl Marx who wrote Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Read more...Situating Serendipity in the Research Process
By Barbara Fister. One of the reasons library renovations are often controversial is that browsing for books seems to be pitted against creating spaces for doing other things – group work, study spaces, digital humanities labs, academic services like tutoring or writing centers. Read more...
Open for Business
By Barbara Fister. I was startled when a physicist said to me the other day “this open access thing is a scam.”
“Why do you say that?” I asked, thinking he probably had Jeffrey Beall’s list of pseudo-journals in mind. Beall has gotten a lot of press for his list of websites that pretend to look like journals but really aren’t. Read more...
