Archive for October, 2007

Stats, Biochemistry and Microbiology

31 October 2007

A statistics student wrote to me and asked for some career advice.

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Blog Action Day – Environment: the aftermath

30 October 2007

Did the recent Blog Action Day have a lasting effect on people’s awareness of environmental issues?

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Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery, Singapore

29 October 2007

This restored working monastery in Singapore is well worth a visit.

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Friday Math Movie – Weapons of Math Instruction

26 October 2007

Weapons of Math Instruction is a hiphop anti-war piece by Mathematicians.

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Is math useful? – Poll results

25 October 2007

A recent IntMath poll indicates that the majority of students feel that math will be useful to them in their future careers.

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The Integrator

24 October 2007

The Integrator allows the user to input a mathematical expression and it outputs the indefinite integral.

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Swivel – data visualization

23 October 2007

Swivel allows the user to upload their own data and to visualize it in various ways. There are some interesting “featured graphs”.

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Retiring early means a longer life – an urban myth?

22 October 2007

Is it true that you live longer if you retire earlier? Let’s investigate this claim.

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squareCircleZ to host Carnival of Mathematics on 2 Nov 2007

21 October 2007

The Carnival of Mathematics comes to squareCircleZ on 2nd November 2007.

Carnival of Mathematics

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An explanation for slow Internet banking

20 October 2007

I remain unsatisfied with the reasons for slow Internet-based banking transactions.

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