So I discovered something interesting on my block: a pizza-parlor-slash-comic-book-store ( Read more... )

Also got a job offer teaching math in the Maldives. Unfortunately, the contract is so beyond shitty that there's no way I'd agree to those terms ( Read more... )

I know this is a topic that has been discussed ad nauseum in the traveller community, but I've been thinking about the traveller/tourist distinction lately, and thought that I may as well weigh in on the debate.

As many people on my friends lists are, inexplicably to me, not travel junkies, I'll start by explaining the issue. “Travellers” hate ( Read more... )

OBAMA WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...and even if they're just contingent decisions, it still feels good.

Here's the deal: If I haven't heard from Peace Corps by the middle of December, I am taking off ( Read more... )

Between McCain's attacks about funding a $3 million scientific project on grizzly bears, and now attacks about funding a $3 million planetarium projector (or, as McCain would say, "overhead projector"), he's coming off as extremely anti-science and research ( Read more... )

Hey, was wondering if any of you into math could help me out.

High school math club, assume very smart, nerdy students. If there's a contest to see who can prove something the quickest, what would be a good prize for the teacher to offer?

Any ideas?

Also: what would be a good proof for such a club?

A suggestion to all of my friends currently in their 4th year at UChicago (or anyone who is coming to an end of their college career ( Read more... )

I just emailed my recruiter to let him know that I want to be nominated for Secondary Math Education in Africa leaving in November '08!

So, several questions for you all, for anyone who's observed us but mostly and ESPECIALLY for those who are (like me) of the so-called "millennial" generation ( Read more... )