Game Theory

applied to passing a Health Care bill... slate, yo!

Writing about math

Wigner essay about the "unreasonable effect of mathematics" referenced in the first of a series of writings about math in the Times).

Hands Down

OK, Anderson Cooper is just way too cool.

Side-bets

Sports and lady-friends... Trashy article, but hits on some interesting sig-other trends... haha.

Google in China

Yay Google!

Wind Chill

I had no idea how made up wind chill is or that it change in the last 10 years.

Border Between Russia and China

Found this slate article about the border between Russia and China interesting.

Linguistic Big Bang

Here is a wonderful, though not current, story about one person's personal discovery of Nicaraguan Sign Language.

http://www.indiana.edu/~langacq/E105/Nicaragua.html

I loved the descriptions of the signs. And the kids' fascination with Babar.

KG Math

The Building Blocks method sounds very similar to how I taught my kindergarteners math. I guess they knew what they were doing. Reading this article made me want to teach KG again.

Hello, Napoleon complex?

This. Is. SAD. Koreans are sad. This does not help me with my desire to embrace my culture more. No, not at all. Tallness is overrated.

Clowning Around In the Name of Research

Funny October article about cell phone distraction .

Man's Best Friend

Not a surprise, but hehehe: dogs are better friends than people.

(in the walking-buddy sense)