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Freefall

Jerry Pournelle recently recommended Freefall, and this is my favorite web comic of the moment. It may have been slow going waiting for it to come out originally, but I breezed through the first couple of years of comics already. This is definitely engineer humor, but it can also make

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A Better Way to Teach Math

Is it possible to eliminate the bell curve in math class? Yes, but probably not in the way most people would think. Steve Sailer linked to an opinion article in the NY Times about a revolutionary math curriculum called Jump Math. Jump Math makes some pretty bold claims for itself:

That ought to be worth extra credit

That ought to be worth extra credit

Single side of a page of notes for the final h/t Topology Fact

How Much Math do we really need?

How much math do we really need? by G.V. Ramanathan Twenty-seven years have passed since the publication of the report "A Nation at Risk," which warned of dire consequences if we did not reform our educational system. This report, not unlike the Sputnik scare of the 1950s,

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Ptolemy's Map of Germany Decoded

Ptolemy's Map of Germany Decoded

The Romans had better data than we thought. A team of researchers was able to correct Ptolemy's map by determining what kinds of errors crept in and then mathmatically distorting the map to account for the mistakes. h/t r/h/e