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Happy Star Wars Day! 5 May 2013 | 04:34 am
Godzilla is celebrating Star Wars Day with a Severed Wampa Arm Cake (recipe from justJenn): Ewwww — that looks kind of gross. Godzilla is such a monster. Here’s a less bloody angle: May the Fourth b...
Kid Snippets Math Class 3 May 2013 | 08:16 pm
Our 9-year old recently introduced us to Kid Snippets, a series of short videos feature adults acting out children’s conversations. (The children are given a scenario and “act” it out vocally; the ad...
Third Derivatives in the News (Again) 29 Mar 2013 | 02:54 pm
The news is no stranger to third derivatives, although it doesn’t sneak in very often – we’ve mentioned before the October 1996 issue of the Notices of the AMS in which Hugo Rossi wrote, “In the fall ...
Wedding Cake WIN 19 Sep 2012 | 10:40 pm
A few days ago while in a yarn shop I ran into one of our alumni from a few years ago. Seeing her was fantastic, but the icing on the cake (Sorry. Sort of.) was that she had gotten married last summ...
Negative Zero 19 Mar 2012 | 12:32 pm
Zero degree (Celsius) is cold. But you know what’s really cold? Negative zero. At least according to the sign that our colleague Nicole saw in Canada.
Calculus Rhapsody 17 Mar 2012 | 05:36 am
While the Muppet version of Bohemian Rhapsody is still my favorite, this might be a close runner up:
Math Mistakes and Misplaced Measuring 15 Mar 2012 | 03:31 am
In an unfortunately tribute to Pi Day and the importance of mathematics, there was an article in the New York Times yesterday (March 13, 2012) illustrating that the people who need to measure parts do...
Happy Birthday Jim! 25 Sep 2011 | 04:38 am
As you’ll know if you’ve been on Google in the past twelve or so hours, today is Jim Henson’s 75th birthday, and in his honor we share with you a rousing rendition of the How Many Game, hosted by the...
How many before the end? 21 Sep 2011 | 11:33 am
Let’s start with ultimate (yes, that seems a bit backwards – stay with me.), as in “last”. The next-to-last, then, is penultimate, easily one of my favorite words. But there’s more! The next-to-nex...
Granola Fail 25 Aug 2011 | 08:08 am
From a recent Nature Valley ad in the London Metro newspaper: Perhaps the second bar is twice as delicious as the first. Via Language Log. Photo from Spiderham.
