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Jun 10, 2016
In a statement of blistering stupidity, Leslie Stellman claims the proposed school budget review committee violates state law. From the article, Stellman reportedly told the Board of Education, The county's fiscal authority…
Jun 8, 2016
I love reading the blog Confessions of a Community College Dean, where the author descries the trials and tribulations associated with running a community college. In a current post, the pseudonymous author…
Jun 3, 2016
NewHumanist has a great article on the difference between hazard and risk. Basically, the gist of the article is the hazard is what can go wrong. The risk is how likely it…
Jun 2, 2016
On May 3rd, this article ran in the Hamilton Journal-News. Long and short is, local business owner Mike Day was quoted as saying, "It just seems to be one more government-intrusive cost…
Jun 2, 2016
This article on stemjobs.com popped up on Facebook the other day. ::embed{href="http://www.stemjobs.com/what-can-you-do-with-a-math-degree-besides-teach/"} That's a legitimate question. Most of us only encounter math teachers and never see what good mathematics is beyond that.…
Jun 1, 2016
I was recently explaining to someone that cell phones do not cause cancer. Of course, then this study comes out last week saying otherwise. There's a number of flaws with this study,…
May 31, 2016
Brookings questions the value of ban the box legislation and includes this gem: [E]mployers might prefer applicants with a college degree not because of what one learns in college but because earning…
May 31, 2016
I've been taking Robert Wright's Cousera course, "Buddhism and Modern Psychology," mostly because I didn't know anything about either. As Coursera is great fodder for blog content, here's my essay response to…
May 29, 2016
NPR has made a lot out of a report that insurance companies made $400 million in profit from flood insurance. This does not seem likely. When I wrote my text on flood…
May 23, 2016
This morning, Thomas Leeper writes in his blog about the redundancy of the syllabus and how so many young professors are forced to reinvent the wheel every term: That nearly all departments…
May 16, 2016
I completed the Internet of Things specialization from the University of California, Irvine, through Coursera. I got my certificate, screen shotted above, tonight. Learn more about my capstone project, a high-altitude balloon…