It is possible to remain inimitable and ubiquitous 450 years after one's birth.
Friday 28 March 2014
Wednesday 26 March 2014
Monday 24 March 2014
Sunday 23 March 2014
Saturday 22 March 2014
Thursday 20 March 2014
On Being Overqualified
"What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all of time."
-Margaret Atwood
(King's College Chapel at Cambridge University)
Wednesday 19 March 2014
Tuesday 18 March 2014
Monday 17 March 2014
Friday 14 March 2014
Thursday 13 March 2014
Tuesday 11 March 2014
On World Maths Day
Using statistics about smoking cigarettes is a great way to engage students in a Maths lesson especially since "World Maths Day" and "No Smoking Day" collide on March 12.
- If a pack of cigarettes cost $9, how much will a pack-a-day smoker save in one week by quitting?
- Today's cigarettes contain 4000 chemicals. In 1994 it was 599. How many more ingredients exist today?
- It takes 3-9 months after a smoker quits for coughing and breathing problems to decline. What is the range and median of this time?
- A pack-a-day smoker puts half the money he/she saves in a year on buying a car, how much money is that?
- If 30% of the tar from cigarettes is exhaled from the body, how much tar is left in a smoker's lungs?
Monday 10 March 2014
Sunday 9 March 2014
Saturday 8 March 2014
Friday 7 March 2014
On Fridays
There are people who look so forward to Friday that the other six days of the week cease to have any real meaning.
Thursday 6 March 2014
Wednesday 5 March 2014
On the Oscars
Once in awhile a celebrity uses the Oscar platform to recognize people who have suffered/died and those who continue to struggle around the world.
Monday 3 March 2014
Sunday 2 March 2014
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