Ten Influential Albums
Last week I was finally tagged in one of those items: “Post a _____ every day for _____ days, without comment.” In this case, it was “Post an ...
Month: April 2020
Operations on Fractions
A tale of carts and horses. My child is in fifth grade. Last Friday, we received the second volume of his mathematics workbook. It starts with multiplication of...
Witches, Candy, Monkeys, and Math
Mathematics isn’t about finding answers. It’s about asking questions. As a mathematician, here’s a question I usually find boring: What’s the answer? Consider t...
Talking Honestly About Genitals
Cisgender folks, we need to talk about language again. I’ll be talking about genitals, so some may consider this essay not safe for work (NSFW). The other day, ...
Race and Class Privilege in the Age of COVID-19
Madonna recently referred to the COVID-19 pandemic as “the great equalizer”. In the sense that any infection itself doesn’t care about wealth, ethnicity, o...