By Rosemarie Emanuele. In the next week, classes will begin for both me and my daughter. This means that the summer is now officially over, and “the year” begins. As this transition happens, I reflect on what experiences this summer brought with it, as I mourn its passing. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Triangular numbers are numbers that can be arranged into equilateral triangles. For example, the number three can form such a triangle with two dots on the base and one on the top, yielding three sides each with two elements in them. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. In Economics, we often talk of goods and services as being “needs” or “wants.” Needs are things like food and housing, which one cannot do without, while wants are things that are optional, but desired. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. In math, two numbers, such as ½ and 2, are called “reciprocals” if, when multiplied together, their product is one. I thought of this recently when discussing what my daughter’s college search will look like. She will most likely choose a college that is on a list of schools that provide “reciprocal” tuition to employees of Ursuline. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. In Statistics, we often use a probability distribution, the “Z” distribution, that is usually called the “normal” distribution. This is because the mean of this distribution is set at some value that is agreed upon as being the most common value of the variable in question. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. Allison Gopnik, a psychology professor at UC Berkeley, had an interesting piece in last Sunday’s New York Times that has been sticking to my brain like a burr. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. All signs point toward an open access future for scholarship. The pressure from funders as well as from academic authors to publish openly is growing. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. From the Celts, and the home to some of the greatest lyrical writers in the Western world, comes the notion of thin places. “A place where the veil between this world and the eternal world is thin. A thin place is where one can walk in two worlds - the worlds are fused together, knitted loosely where the differences can be discerned or tightly where the two worlds become one.” Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. My hand to G-d, I included a sentence at the end of a draft of my last blog about the Russian hack of the DNC servers, “And Trump is falling for it hook, line and sinker” that I deleted before I sent the final to be posted. Read more...
By John Warner. It seems that many who read the “welcome” letter from University of Chicago Dean of Students, John (Jay) Ellison, were pleased to read a strong statement defending core academic values: freedom of expression and inquiry without fear of censorship, as well as “rigorous debate, discussion, and even disagreement,” including a refusal to “support” trigger warnings or “condone” safe spaces. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
