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Jun 15, 2019
Like a lot of people, I've been watching the HBO miniseries, Chernobyl : Chernobyl: Official Website for the Miniseries HBO The official website for Chernobyl, the Emmy and Golden Globe winning miniseries…
May 24, 2019
I have a chapter in our planned book, Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research . In this book, co-edited with Prof. Natalie Scala, our authors explore the fundamentals of operations research…
May 7, 2019
It is apparently time for another policysplainer. The New York Times , among others, covered the report that Social Security will start running a deficit in the next decade and not long…
Apr 2, 2019
The Piedmont Province is a geographic region stretching from southern Pennsylvania southward through Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, northern Georgia, into eastern Alabama. The Piedmont consists of a plateau region bounded on the…
Mar 31, 2019
Plain form versus formal form of the language is something Americans do not think they do. Except, they do differentiate between formal and informal language. Sociolinguists call this register, when we change…
Mar 12, 2019
I have a delightfully ghoulish topic of what happens to groundwater recharge in old cemeteries. As I have talked about before, groundwater recharge is important. First, the water table needs to be…
Mar 9, 2019
I took a look at Green's theorem last week and its relationship to the planimeter. Green's theorem is a remarkable work that tells us much about the structure of two-dimensional shapes. As…
Mar 5, 2019
On Monday night, the Howard County Council adopted CR18-2019, establishing the octennial Charter Review Commission and its membership. I am fortunate to be appointed and I look forward to continuing good work…
Mar 4, 2019
I am going to start by saying I do not find Green's theorem very intuitive. It is a magnificently powerful theorem. It has been proven, so it must be true, but unlike…
Mar 2, 2019
For those of us brought up in a traditional Western society, religion is well-defined. It is a core belief system that includes some sort of god or gods and some sort of…
Feb 24, 2019
The gradient of a scalar field is one of the most powerful topics I've ever seen in mathematics. It is the, quite simply, the multidimensional generalization of the derivative. We can interpret…